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Sony a7III EDR in continuous bracketing mode

May 20, 2018 JimK 2 Comments

This is a continuation of a series of posts on the Sony a7III.   You should be able to find all the posts about that camera in the Category List on the right sidebar, below the Articles widget. There’s a drop-down menu there that you can use to get to all the posts in this series; just… [Read More]

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a7III EDR vs shutter drive mode

May 20, 2018 JimK Leave a Comment

This is a continuation of a series of posts on the Sony a7III.   You should be able to find all the posts about that camera in the Category List on the right sidebar, below the Articles widget. There’s a drop-down menu there that you can use to get to all the posts in this series; just… [Read More]

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A promising idea, a disappointing outcome

May 18, 2018 JimK 2 Comments

As (I hope) many of you know, I have been proselityzing as intensively as I can to get people to adopt my lens screening test. I’ve had some converts, and they have all enjoyed success with the method, but it’s been an uphill battle. Yesterday, I had a dispiriting Internet argument with someone who appeared… [Read More]

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Atmospheric thermal turbulence demo

May 17, 2018 JimK 4 Comments

I’ve talked before in the context of lens testing about atmospheric turbulence and how it can wreak havoc on otherwise well-conceived testing. I try to avoid doing testing over great distances, but if I’m going to be doing such work, I try to do it first thing in the morning before the sun warms the earth. I… [Read More]

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Debunking false claims about Sony a7III PDAF striping

May 16, 2018 JimK 6 Comments

A week or so ago, I published a FAQ about the Sony PDAF striping phenomenon that people noticed with some Sony a7III images. I had previously posted a little essay on tribalism in which I talked about two tribal reactions to the a7III striping. The striping on the a7III is a fatal flaw. You can never… [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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