This is the first in a series of posts about constructing and using a bokeh simulator. If you want to easily navigate to the other parts, at the bottom of this post (below the comments) you’ll find pingback links to each of them. I’ve been reading a lot of controversy about lens bokeh, and it… [Read More]

I am done with my GFX review until more native lenses arrive (I’m taking a pass on the zoom) and I get adapters for some non-native ones.  So now I’m going to start using the GFX for real photography. Here are the results of a few day’s experimentation: All of these were captured using the… [Read More]

This is the 51st in a series of posts on the Fujifilm GFX-50S. The series starts here. I am reading many complaints about photographers who are having difficulty in manually focusing the Fuji GFX, both with the native focus-by-wire lenses and adapted ones. I have developed what I think are highly accurate ways to focus… [Read More]

The Sony a9 has been announced to an excited public. A lot of the excitement centers around the reportedly super-fast electronic shutter, which allows frame rates to 20 fps, and minimizes rolling shutter effects. In the Sony a7x cameras, putting the shutter mode into the continuous state drops the raw data precision to 12 bits… [Read More]