I did some lens testing this week: The Sony 16mm f/2.8 on the NEX-5 The 16-18-21 Tri-Elmar on the NEX-5 The 18mm f/3.8 Super Elmar-M on the NEX-5 and, just for completeness: The 16-18-21 Tri-Elmar on the M9 The 18mm f/3.8 Super Elmar-M on the M9 It wasn’t very formal, but was enough for me… [Read More]
Wag the dog, part 3
I got back from New York City yesterday – among other things, I was working on a new series done in the subway – and waiting for me was a new NEX-to-Leica-M-series adapter. This one was made by Novoflex, and it looks about the same as the RainbowImaging adapter, even though it costs almost 10… [Read More]
Wag the dog, part two
I’m a day into this experiment (using the Leica 16-18-21 mm Tri-Elmar on the Sony NEX-5), and I have good news and bad news. First, the good news: The lens is really sharp. That’s no surprise. What is a surprise is how little sharpness is lost because of the Sony’s antialiasing filter. The NEX-5 manual… [Read More]
Wag the dog
What’s this? A multi-kilobuck lens on a body that costs a tenth as much! Isn’t that crazy? Maybe not. Put that lens on an M9 and you won’t be able to use the perfectly good focal lengths between the click stops (the Tri-Elmar is a real zoom lens) you won’t have live view for accurate… [Read More]
Setting rendering intent in PS, LR, & QI
This post is to illustrate a point I made in a comment to the preceding post. If you’re not following that thread, don’t worry; you’re not missing much. Setting rendering intent in Photoshop: Setting color rendering intent in Lightroom: Setting color rendering intent in Qimage: