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Another medium tele test — f/1.4

February 10, 2016 JimK 32 Comments

A while back, I tested a group of medium telephoto lenses on the Sony a7II. The lenses in the last test were: Zeiss 85mm f/4 ZM (Leica M mount) Tele-Tessar.  Zeiss 85mm f/1.4 Otus. Leica 90mm f/2 Apo Summicron-M ASPH. AF-S Nikkor 85mm f/1.4 G. Tamron SP AF Di 90mm f/2.8 Macro. The Otus and… [Read More]

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Planning for long exposures

February 10, 2016 JimK Leave a Comment

Back in the large-format film era, there were many images that showed pronounced motion blur from moving water. In many cases, it looked really nice. When films were slow and lenses stopped down to f/90, it was pretty easy to get moving water looking creamy, especially since midday was usually a time for siestas and… [Read More]

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A book report – getting the pages flat

February 9, 2016 JimK Leave a Comment

This is a continuation of a series of posts that I started what seems like a long time ago about getting a book designed and published. The series starts here. Almost all of the photos in the Staccato series are wider than they are high. Many are a great deal wider than the image height…. [Read More]

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A book report — proofreading

February 8, 2016 JimK Leave a Comment

This is a continuation of a series of posts that I started what seems like a long time ago about getting a book designed and published. The series starts here. I’ve already posted about how I’m proofing the images for the book. However, there’s a less-fascinating (to photographers) but still important, proofing task: all the… [Read More]

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A book report — coloring outside the lines

February 7, 2016 JimK Leave a Comment

This is a continuation of a series of posts that I started what seems like a long time ago about getting a book designed and published. The series starts here. A lot has happened since I last reported on this project in — gosh, has it been that long? — July. In this post, I… [Read More]

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  • About
    • Patents and papers about color
    • Who am I?
  • How to…
    • Backing up photographic images
    • How to change email providers
    • How to shoot slanted edge images for me
  • Lens screening testing
    • Equipment and Software
    • Examples
      • Bad and OK 200-600 at 600
      • Excellent 180-400 zoom
      • Fair 14-30mm zoom
      • Good 100-200 mm MF zoom
      • Good 100-400 zoom
      • Good 100mm lens on P1 P45+
      • Good 120mm MF lens
      • Good 18mm FF lens
      • Good 24-105 mm FF lens
      • Good 24-70 FF zoom
      • Good 35 mm FF lens
      • Good 35-70 MF lens
      • Good 60 mm lens on IQ3-100
      • Good 63 mm MF lens
      • Good 65 mm FF lens
      • Good 85 mm FF lens
      • Good and bad 25mm FF lenses
      • Good zoom at 24 mm
      • Marginal 18mm lens
      • Marginal 35mm FF lens
      • Mildly problematic 55 mm FF lens
      • OK 16-35mm zoom
      • OK 60mm lens on P1 P45+
      • OK Sony 600mm f/4
      • Pretty good 16-35 FF zoom
      • Pretty good 90mm FF lens
      • Problematic 400 mm FF lens
      • Tilted 20 mm f/1.8 FF lens
      • Tilted 30 mm MF lens
      • Tilted 50 mm FF lens
      • Two 15mm FF lenses
    • Found a problem – now what?
    • Goals for this test
    • Minimum target distances
      • MFT
      • APS-C
      • Full frame
      • Small medium format
    • Printable Siemens Star targets
    • Target size on sensor
      • MFT
      • APS-C
      • Full frame
      • Small medium format
    • Test instructions — postproduction
    • Test instructions — reading the images
    • Test instructions – capture
    • Theory of the test
    • What’s wrong with conventional lens screening?
  • Previsualization heresy
  • Privacy Policy
  • Recommended photographic web sites
  • Using in-camera histograms for ETTR
    • Acknowledgments
    • Why ETTR?
    • Normal in-camera histograms
    • Image processing for in-camera histograms
    • Making the in-camera histogram closely represent the raw histogram
    • Shortcuts to UniWB
    • Preparing for monitor-based UniWB
    • A one-step UniWB procedure
    • The math behind the one-step method
    • Iteration using Newton’s Method

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