In many fields of endeavor and enjoyment as you spend more and more money, you get a smaller and smaller perceptual improvement per dollar. You can buy a decent bottle of wine for 20 bucks. Picked carefully, you can serve it to knowledgeable friends and get few complaints. You could could spring for a 40-dollar… [Read More]
How modern camera shutters work
There seems to be some confusion on the issue of how modern camera shutters work. I’m going to try to clear some of that up in this post. Some caveats: There are variations among camera manufacturers that I’m going to gloss over. This applies to CMOS sensors that employ at least one analog to digital… [Read More]
The dubious search for GOATs
It’s always been the case that humans crave simplicity, even when it masks reality. Hence the tendency to construct, measure, and argue over scalar (one number) metrics, even though they almost always ignore nuance. Even better, in many people’s eyes, are scalar, binary metrics, such as picking winners and losers. These metrics are almost always… [Read More]
New camera: marginal gain or material advantage?
There’s an interesting thread in the MF forum of DPR. A Youtuber says that these days, a new camera offers only marginal gains, not a material advantage. The basic argument is that we have passed the era of quantum leaps in performance, and that today’s cameras are so capable that you can do almost any… [Read More]
The Nikon Zf has both an AA filter and pixel shift
In the previous post, I said: …I’ll accept for the purposes of this discussion that no camera manufacturer uses pixel shift on cameras that have AA filters. I don’t know that that’s true, but I can’t think of any counterexamples. Erik Kaffehr found a counterexample, the Nikon Zf. In the spirit of scientific reproducibility, I… [Read More]
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