It’s started. First, we had the Internet hype that followed the Z6/7 announcement, which seemingly cleaved the photo world into two camps: a) those that declared all F-mount cameras to be allosauri peering up at the approaching meteor, and b) those that decried MILCs as feeble-focusing toys for people with more money than brains (the… [Read More]
Archives for September 2018
Adapted lens upsides
This is a continuation of a series of posts about adapter pitfalls and pleasures. The first five posts are here, here, here, here, and here. I’ve talked about downsides of adapter use in the last several days, but I’ve not addressed the upsides. They are many and important. You can use cheap lenses with character. I define “lens character” as… [Read More]
A quasi-worst-case adapter test
This is a continuation of a series of posts about adapter pitfalls and pleasures (I promise that I’ll get to the pleasures). The first four posts are here, here, here, and here. In the last post we saw that, in spite of my intuition, at identical magnifications, that adapter tilt affected defocus blur more with short lenses than… [Read More]
How tilt errors add up
This is a continuation of a series of posts about adapter pitfalls and pleasures (I promise that I’ll get to the pleasures). The first two posts are here and here. A third is here. The assumption about adapter errors seems to be that they add to the other tilt errors in the camera/lens system. Since… [Read More]
Does adapter tilt affect short lenses more than long ones?
This is a continuation of a series of posts about adapter pitfalls and pleasures (I promise that I’ll get to the pleasures). The first two posts are here and here. It has been stated by many that adapter tilt affects focus blur more for short lenses than long ones. It’s become conventional wisdom, but it… [Read More]