Adobe has released a new version of Lightroom CC. You should be able to download it today. It is advertised as improving performance by better utilizing hte GPU. There are some controls for that in preferences. Here’s the default setting: If you drill down, you can tell it to use the GPU whenever it can:… [Read More]

A DPR poster posed an interesting question: “What does sensor outresolving look like in photos?” In order to deal with this, I needed to define what “sensor outresolving” means. I’m taking it to mean that the sensor samples the projected image from the lens not just at, but more finely than the Nyquist frequency. If… [Read More]

Adobe DNG Converter has long been a PITA for bulk conversion operations. It didn’t use multiple cores, and it would only convert a 100 or so files before it would abend. I’ve been using the version 11.3.0.197 on the GFX 100 files, and I am happy to report that things have changed. I just converted… [Read More]

This is one in a series of posts on the Fujifilm GFX 100. You should be able to find all the posts about that camera in the Category List on the right sidebar, below the Articles widget. There’s a drop-down menu there that you can use to get to all the posts in this series;… [Read More]

The announcement of the 61 MP a7RIV has reignited the oft-heard arguments that photographers don’t need any more resolution in their cameras than they have now. There is a variation on this argument that says that a reason why greater resolution brings no benefits is diffraction. It is undeniably true that there are pixel pitches… [Read More]