I’ve said that I wasn’t going to test the Sony a7III. The testing I do takes a while, do I need to purchase cameras I test, and I don’t see much of a place for the a7III in my own photography since I already have an a9 and an a7RIII. But working with files that… [Read More]
Archives for April 2018
Light painting with the GFX 50S — a demo
Yesterday I reported on using the Fuji GFX 50S and the Fuji 120 mm f/4 macro for focus stacking. One of the images was of this lily: Now I’m going to show you another thing I’ve been doing with the same subject, lens, and camera. Here’s the setup: I’m using two lights for most… [Read More]
Focus stacking with the GFX 50S — a demo
I wrote a post on the nuts and bolts of the poorly-named focus- bracketing feature that arrived with the current version of the GFX firmware. Now I’ll give you a little demo. The setup: There’s a Fuji 120 mm f/4 macro on the camera. The lights are two Godox 600 TTL Pro strobes. I’m not… [Read More]
Capture One and Fuji GFX 50S focus stacking
I received the following query from a reader: I wonder whether you can give me a hint how to tackle an issue I ran into. Quite some people are using Capture One with their GFX but I have not heard yet of anyone using focus stacking with the TIFFs coming out of Capture One. I… [Read More]
Sony a7III raw filtering
The a7III is about to ship in the US — it’s already in the wild elsewhere — and, although it is exceedingly attractively priced, I’m not expecting to be a customer. Nothing wrong with the camera, to my way of thinking, but I just don’t see the utility to someone who already has an a7RIII and… [Read More]