I have recently been called upon to make a series of informal portraits and small group images. I try to use mostly available light, but I’ve found that a bit of on-camera or nearly-on-camera flash fills the shadows in eye sockets and makes for a more pleasing image with a heck of a lot less… [Read More]
Archives for 2024
Backup, revisited
Many years ago, I wrote an article on backing up photographic images. Quite a few bytes have flowed under the figurative bridge since then, and the original article is sufficiently obsolete as to be nearly useless. So, I’m going to take another crack at it, with liberal self- plagiarization from the original article. In chemical… [Read More]
105/2.8 Nikkor S on Nikon Z8, Siemens Star
I started testing my new 105mm f/2.8 Z-mount Nikkor S lens. I put it on a Z8 body, mounted it on a Edelkron tripod with a Arca Swiss C1 head, and aimed it at a store-bought Zeiss Siemens Star target about 20 feet away. I shot 6 images at base ISO and 1/400 second using… [Read More]
Artificial intelligence and camera firmware
The folks at Lirpa Labs, the research arm of Sloof Lirpa, made a big announcement today. It’s a first for the company, which has previously developed standalone products. Lirpa will be providing firmware upgrades for Sony, Canon, Nikon, Leica, Hasselblad, and Fujifilm cameras. The Lirpa firmware will add entirely new artificial intelligence capabilities to those… [Read More]
Circles of confusion, and circles of the confused
When some folks who have been full frame camera users move to medium format cameras, they suffer from confusion about depth of field (DOF). When this confusion spreads to a group of people they become a circle of the confused (CotC). This post is intended to reduce the size of the CotC. Depth of field… [Read More]
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