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Handholding the a7 and a7R, part 2

March 9, 2014 JimK 2 Comments

The cameras: the Sony a7 and a7R. The lens: the Sony/Zeiss (aka Zony) 55mm f/1.8 Sonnar FE. The lighting: a single Fotodiox LED-200WA-56 daylight balanced variable-power flood. ISO set to 400, f-stop set to 5.6, focusing in single shot AF mode with the small focus area setting, drive set to single, the exposure mode set… [Read More]

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Handholding the a7 and a7R, part 1

March 8, 2014 JimK Leave a Comment

You may have noticed that I haven’t posted much for the last week or so. I’ve spent the time trying to come up with a way to measure the absolute and relative image sharpness of a7 and a7R when not firmly mounted to a tripod. I had been resisting this exercise in the past because… [Read More]

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Handholding the a7 and a7R

March 7, 2014 JimK Leave a Comment

I’ve been busy the past few days learning how to use Imatest so that I could do some analysis of the sharpness of handheld photographs taken with the Sony a7 and a7R. I’ll write it up in a day or so, but here’s a little teaser:

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Handholding

March 4, 2014 JimK Leave a Comment

No, not that kind of handholding. The kind when it’s just you and your camera against the world. We don’t need no stinking tripods! Or do we?

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Comparing Sony a7 and a7R sharpness, part 4

March 3, 2014 JimK 4 Comments

I should be better at accepting defeat. Knowing your personal failings is one thing. Overcoming them is another. So I tried one more time to tame the s7R shutter shock in portrait orientation. I ditched the Arca Swiss C1 entirely, and mounted the vertical post from a RRS pano setup directly on the tripod deck…. [Read More]

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