Today, after a long wait, I received an FE-mount Sony 100-400 f/4.5-5.6 GM OSS lens. I’ll be reporting on it for the next week or so. First thing I do these days when I get a new lens is run the Siemens Star test on it, in order to detect manufacturing errors. The test is… [Read More]
Archives for October 2017
Guest post on GFX adapted lenses
This is the 74th in a series of posts on the Fujifilm GFX-50S. The series starts here. When I was testing the GFX 50S, I did a lot of work with adapted lenses. I’ve received information about many lenses that I did not test from a reader named Robert Jones. I think it’s sufficiently interesting… [Read More]
My photography in a nutshell
I was recently invited to create the material for a page on the Center for Photographic Art website devoted to my work. One of the things they wanted was what they called an Artist’s Statement. I’d done those for particular bodies of work before, but this was different: a couple of hundred words that summed up… [Read More]
65/2 Apo-Lanthar 1:2 corner sharpness
This is the eighth in a series of posts about the Voigtlander 65 mm f/2 Apo-Lanthar macro lens. The series starts here. In this post, I showed 65 mm f/2 Apo-Lanthar center and corner performance at f/2 and at a 1:2 reproduction ratio. Unsurprisingly, the corners were slightly softer than the center. I have improved my… [Read More]
Sony a9 LCD lag
Yesterday, I did a test of the lag of the lag of the LCD panel on the back of the Sony a7RII. Today, I’ll do the same thing for the Sony a9, and add some notes about the EVFs on the two cameras. Here’s a picture that pretty much says it all: This is… [Read More]