Yesterday my D4 made its 50,000th exposure. That’s 1388 36-exposure rolls, or almost 70 bricks. If you had to buy slide film and have it processed, that many shots would cost you at least $25K. And the camera isn’t even two years old. I blame Lightroom. In the film era, you were limited in exposures… [Read More]

Huntington Witherill sent me this: The Sony A7r is (IMO) a ground-breaking camera that will, I believe, experience wide spread use. However, the camera currently has a couple of nagging issues, one of which is a decidedly short battery life. The vertical grip (Sony part #VG-C1EM, which then facilitates the use of two (2) batteries,… [Read More]

As I mentioned here, I’ve quite a stable of lens adapters. They all came in boxes that are too big for me to use in a storage cabinet, let alone a camera bag. They’ve been sitting in a pile in a Sterilite bin. When I change a lens on a digital camera, I have a… [Read More]

There’s a Sherlock Holmes story that turns on something that didn’t happen. Hold that thought. Last night, at the request of the celebrating priest, I photographed a Christmas Eve service. Not wanting to be intrusive, I left the big lenses at home and packed light: D4, 14mm f/2.8, 70-200 f/2.8, tripod, cube head. I thought… [Read More]

I have a ragtag collection of Nikon F-mount to Leica M-mount, Nikon F-mount to Sony E-mount, and M-mount to E-mount adapters from Novoflex, Metabones, and MTF. None of these are inexpensive; all cost over $200, and one cost more than twice that. As has been discussed before, none are the correct length, almost certainly on… [Read More]