‎”The craft has to be there but it can’t be a fetish, and the spirit has to be there or it isn’t worth doing” Ansel Adams, March 1975. Thank you, Alan.

The Pentax K-01 got announced today, but by B&H, not by Pentax. Oops. At first blush, it looks like it could be an alternative to the NEX-7 for photographers wanting a small camera with a big lens selection, but it has two fatal flaws. APS-C sensor? Check. No mirror? Check? 16 MP? Check? Anti-shake with… [Read More]

The purple corner effect is fixable using Photoshop tweaks or programs like Cornerfix. Effective use of either requires calibration images. In lenses that exhibit moderate to strong purple corners on the NEX-7, apertures wider that about f/5.6 require their own calibration images. That’s a lot of calibration images to keep track of. One for each… [Read More]