I’ve been tracing relationships with my cast-off cameras in the last two posts. Today I’ll continue the stroll down memory lane, but with lighting equipment. I’ll include gear I still own this time. First off, I don’t set up artificial light much. It’s usually sufficient – and a heck of a lot faster and easier… [Read More]
A retrospective gear list – digital era
This is a continuation of an annotated list of cameras that I have used, for capturing images, but which I have abandoned for shinier toys tools. The previous post talked about film cameras, and this one is devoted to digital ones. I got started in digital editing and output at the beginning of the 1990s. At… [Read More]
A retrospective gear list — film era
A reader has asked me a couple of times about my “gear list”. It is long and in a constant state of flux, and I’m not much interested in enumerating it. However, it may interest some of you to know some of the equipment in my past. That interests me much more, as it is… [Read More]
Good enough, revisited
Roger Cicala of LensRentals has posted some test results on zoom vs prime lenses. It turns out that, in general, zooms are not as good as primes. Is anybody surprised? Apparently so. There has been some Chicken Little conversations on the web in response. I don’t see what the fuss is about. Yes, zoom lenses have… [Read More]
A test that got away
This morning, I started out to do a test of the new Nikon 70-200/2.8 zoom. I wanted to test it on the highest-resolution body that I had, which is the Sony a7RII. I mounted the lens on a Vello LAE-SE-NF adapter, and the pair to the body. Since the new 70-200 has electronic diaphragm control,… [Read More]
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