Archives for 2016

This is part of a long series of posts about the Sony a6300. The series starts here. In this test, I found that the Batis 85/1.8 lens had moderate focus shift and longitudinal chromatic aberration (LoCA). Then, when testing autofocus (AF) with that lens and the Sony a7RII, I found that the AF system did… [Read More]

This is part of a long series of posts about the Sony a6300. The series starts here. I’ve received a request for some context on some of the a6300 graphs I’ve been posting. I’m pleased to respond. Let’s compare the engineering dynamic range of the a6300 to its Sony stablemate, the a7II. In one sense,… [Read More]

This is part of a long series of posts about the Sony a6300. The series starts here. The Sony a7RII and the a7II both have some self-heating issues when asked to make successive long exposures. The suspicion at the time was that the IBIS systems in both cameras provided some degree of thermal isolation and… [Read More]

This is part of a long series of posts about the Sony a6300. The series starts here. I don’t expect any surprises here, since I’ve dealt with a lot of Sony cameras, but you never know, so I looked at the histograms for all the dark field captures that I made for the plots in… [Read More]