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]

Phase One just introduced an update to the IQ4 cameras that allows in-camera capture and averaging of groups of images. If the camera position is fixed, this technique can have the effect of simultaneously: Allowing long exposure times without the need for a neutral density filter. Deceasing the amount of noise in the final image… [Read More]

I recently had an interesting discussion about raw precision and dithering with a person who works for a high-end camera retailer. We kept talking past each other. I’d start talking about read noise and the various studies – including my own – that attempted to quantify how much dither is adequate. He’d say that 16-bit… [Read More]

The format rhetoric seems to be heating up again. Maybe it never cooled off. In the last 7 or 8 years, I’ve owned and made many images with APS-C (with crop factors between 1.3 and 1.5), full frame (FF), and 33×44 (MF, or crop MF, depending on your level of precision – and maybe your… [Read More]