I shoot raw exclusively, and if I do HDR I do my compositing in post. When I’m doing handheld HDR – or tripod-mounted HDR, for that matter — what I want from a camera is to have it make a series of exposures as rapidly as possible at various shutter speeds. I want to be… [Read More]

Some test images. Stitched panorama, camera held vertically 1:1 detail from pano Barrel distortion test (top of frame, correction turned off)

I’ve been working on how to focus the RX-1 when doing street photography using an optical finder, and I have some progress to report. Letting the camera decide what to focus on and hoping for the best does indeed work much of the time. However, unless you chimp and zoom in, you can walk away… [Read More]

I dumped the Leica optical finder for something smaller and supposedly a closer match to the 35mm RX-1 lens focal length. Here’s what it looks like on the camera, with the thumb grip: and: The framing accuracy with the OVF is about as good as the accuracy of any RF camera — Leica M series,… [Read More]