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Fuji 63/2.8 focus shift and LoCA

April 11, 2017 JimK 5 Comments

This is the 29th in a series of posts on the Fujifilm GFX-50S. The series starts here. I took the same general experimental protocol that I used in the last post on the Fuji 120mm f/4 G macro lens and applied it to the 63 m f/2.8 “normal” lens. Subject distance was 2 meters. Wide… [Read More]

GFX 50S, The Last Word

Fuji 120/4 macro focus shift and LoCA

April 9, 2017 JimK 3 Comments

This is the 28th in a series of posts on the Fujifilm GFX-50S. The series starts here. A while back, I developed a protocol for measuring focus shift and longitudinal chromatic aberration (LoCA). I’ve improved it over the last year or so, but it’s still the same idea, as described here: Towards a macro MTF… [Read More]

GFX 50S, The Last Word

Magical lenses?

April 9, 2017 JimK 6 Comments

A DPR reader posted a request for folks to post names of, and images made with, the “magical” lenses that they own. I thought through my lens collection, and didn’t come up with any that seemed to fit that description. That got me thinking. There are short lenses and long lenses. There are fast lenses… [Read More]

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Fuji GFX read noise vs shutter speed

April 7, 2017 JimK 1 Comment

This is the 27th in a series of posts on the Fujifilm GFX-50S. The series starts here. I made a series of dark-field exposures with the GFX at ISO 1000 with LENR turned off. The shutter speeds were in third-stop increments from 1/4000 second to 30 seconds. The GFX will make longer timed exposures, and I… [Read More]

GFX 50S, The Last Word

Making lemonade from the GFX slow electronic shutter

April 6, 2017 JimK 6 Comments

It occurred to me that the 1/4 second transit time of the GFX could be put to use.

GFX 50S, The Last Word

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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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