When I presented this post to show how much the a7 suffers from shutter shock with and without the electronic first curtain shutter using the Zony 55, I wondered aloud why the a7’s mechanical first curtain shutter seemed to affect the sharpness less than the a7R’s mechanical FCS. In order to explore that issue in… [Read More]

I ran the same test as yesterday with the Nikon 180mm lens and the camera in portrait orientation. The orange line is with the electronic first curtain shutter, and the blue line is with the mechanical FCS:   No surprises here; without EFCS  the camera is more affected for vertical edges in portrait mode than… [Read More]

This is a continuation of the tests of the previous post to see how much the a7 suffers from shutter shock with and without the electronic first curtain shutter. Instead of the Zony 55, this time I used a Nikon AF Nikkor 180mm f2.8 ED. It’s an older lens, and not as sharp as some… [Read More]

A reader asked me to run some tests to see how much the a7 suffered from shutter shock with and without the electronic first curtain shutter. I was intrigued. I decided to start with what should be a pretty easy test, so I used a 55mm lens. Since I haven’t tested the a7R with this… [Read More]

There’s an old technique in chemical photography for making etching-like images. You sandwich a negative and a positive of the same image together just slightly out of register, and print the whole thing on lith film, then you make your print from the lith. I thought I’d see what happened to one of the firehouse… [Read More]