Once upon a time there were three bears, who lived together in a house of their own, in a wood. One of them was a Little Wee bear, one was a middle-sized bear, and the other was a great big bear. They had each a camera: a little Nikon Z50 for the little wee bear;… [Read More]
Photoshop benchmarking the M4 Macbook Pro and a Dell tower
I recently got a M4 Max Macbook Pro with 128 GB of DRAM. It has seemed to be a peppy machine. Today I benchmarked it against my main workstation, using the Puget Systems Photoshop benchmarking tool. Spoiler: it’s pretty darned fast. This isn’t really a fair fight. On one hand, the Dell 64-core 512GB Ryzen… [Read More]
Why I use medium format
There was a recent survey on DPR that asked the title question and several related ones. Some of the answers were interesting, and inspired me to write this post about my reasons. First, some history. I first started using medium format in 1949. I was six years old, and my mother and father gave me… [Read More]
Of fidelity, photography, audio, and wine
On the DPR Medium Format Forum, a poster has advocated for use of the term “image fidelity” as a scalar description of photographic technical quality. He has referenced the term “high fidelity” in audio as an analog and an exemplar. I am unconvinced that this new terminology offers any advantages over the conventional term “image… [Read More]
Fujifilm 30mm f/5.6 T/S lens — allowable tilt error
Lensrentals has loaned me a Fuji GF 30mm f/5.6 tilt/shift lens. There have been reports of unwanted tilt when using this lens. I conducted an analysis of how much tilt it takes to cause various amounts of defocus error. While the stimulus for this work was the 30/5.6 T/S lens, it is applicable to any… [Read More]
- 1
- 2
- 3
- …
- 380
- Next Page »