I wrote a piece on the different worlds inhabited by those who consider raw files to be the reference for camera performance and those for whom the lodestone is a developed file. I posted it here, and put another version on the DPR Sony alpha 7 forum on DPR. In the ensuing discussion, several made… [Read More]

There are those who say that I’m prejudiced from my long usage of Nikon (and sometimes Canon) equipment, but I’ve been using alpha 7 cameras for most of my photography since they were first shipped, and I still find the menu system cumbersome, confusing, and awkward. The situation has not improved with the a7RII, and,… [Read More]

[If you’re wondering where yesterday’s post on the base ISO of the a7RII went, I pulled it. Bill Claff, Jack Hogan, and Iliah Borg helped me see that my model for an Aptina DR-Pix camera was grossly oversimplified, resulting in erroneous conclusions. I hope to have a better version to post before too long.] A… [Read More]

I posted my test results and conclusions on the a7RII’s fake ISO settings on the DPR alpha 7 forum. To put it mildly, a lively discussion ensued. The SNR was not particularly high, but even so, as is usual in Internet discussions, I learned a couple of things. In my original post, I took the… [Read More]