This is a continuation of a series of posts about blur management for landscape photography. The series starts here. In the last post, I showed you the results of a blur management optimizer that I wrote this morning. Now I’m going to try it out on an outdoor scene. You’ll recognize it; it’s one I… [Read More]

This is a continuation of a series of posts about blur management for landscape photography. The series starts here. Here’s a situation in which many landscape photographers often find themselves: There are important objects at various distances from the camera. There is too much subject motion to be able to use focus stacking or stitching… [Read More]

This is the first post in a series. You can find links to all the others by scrolling down to the bottom of the page — below the comments — and looking at the pingbacks. Almost two years ago, I created a long series of posts looking at depth of field (DOF) using modulation transfer… [Read More]

This is a continuation of a discussion that starts here. I have pointed out lap time testing as an example of one of the things that’s analogous to some kinds of lab tests when doing camera testing. Lap time testing is a more complicated case than car tests like 0-60, 0-100-0, stopping distance, or even… [Read More]

I’ve got more to say about the camera/car testing analogy, but I just saw this post today on DPR. Maybe I’m in my dottage, but it took me back to my days as a high-school newspaper photographer. I worked in a shared darkroom, with collective responsibility for keeping the communal chemicals fresh, replenished, and properly… [Read More]