Ready for an unscientific experiment? Set up a sturdy tripod and head as if you were going to make a photograph, but don’t mount your camera on the head. Make sure there’s plenty of room around you. Make a fist. Holding your hand about a foot above the clamp, bring your hand down smartly, but… [Read More]

We’ve seen that the a7R is affected by shutter shock. We’ve seen ways to ameliorate those effects. We’ve seen that the a7 is essentially free of shutter shock effects by virtue of its electronic first curtain shutter. What if we put all that together and consider the question, “At its worst shutter speed, is the… [Read More]

Does the anti-aliasing (AA, or A-squared) filter in the A7 cost much in sharpness? I thought I’d find out. I took the super-sharp Zeiss 135mm f/2 APO-Sonnar ZF.2 and took pictures of the ISO 12233 target using studio strobe lighting and both the Leica M240, which has no AA filter, and the a7, which does…. [Read More]

Looking for bargain camera/lens combinations that can produce great image quality is fun.  How about the Carl Zeiss 135mm f/2 APO-Sonnar ZF.2 on the a7 with the Novoflex adapter? Can it compare to the much more expensive (three times as much !) combination of the 135mm f/3.4 Leica APO-Telyt on the M240? Here is the… [Read More]