LensRentals has loaned me a Hasselblad XCD 55mm f/2.5 V lens for testing. There have been reports of extreme amounts of focus shift in V-series lenses. Focus shift is usually caused by undercorrected or overcorrected spherical aberration.  I haven’t seen that myself, so I took a look today. I have a test I used to… [Read More]

I have recently been called upon to make a series of informal portraits and small group images. I try to use mostly available light, but I’ve found that a bit of on-camera or nearly-on-camera flash fills the shadows in eye sockets and makes for a more pleasing image with a heck of a lot less… [Read More]

Many years ago, I wrote an article on backing up photographic images. Quite a few bytes have flowed under the figurative bridge since then, and the original article is sufficiently obsolete as to be nearly useless. So, I’m going to take another crack at it, with liberal self- plagiarization from the original article. In chemical… [Read More]

The folks at Lirpa Labs, the research arm of Sloof Lirpa, made a big announcement today. It’s a first for the company, which has previously developed standalone products. Lirpa will be providing firmware upgrades for Sony, Canon, Nikon, Leica, Hasselblad, and Fujifilm cameras. The Lirpa firmware will add entirely new artificial intelligence capabilities to those… [Read More]