There are two pieces to bokeh. The first is what things look like when they are well out of focus (OOF), and the second is how the transition from OOF to in-focus happens. The second is complicated, but the first is very simple. What you see when part of the image is well OOF is… [Read More]

After more than two years of semi-isolation, I stepped out last weekend. The occasion was a middle-school play. Much of my family,  a couple of hundred other mostly-maskless people of unknown vaccination status, and I crammed ourselves into a room to watch the  youngsters perform. I brought the Z9 and one lens: the 70-200/2.8 S…. [Read More]

After what has seemed like an inordinately long delay, the Really Right Stuff baseplate for the Z9 arrived yesterday. I popped the SmallRig plate off the camera and shot them side by side: They are both well made. If you need a QD connector, get the RRS piece. If you want to save some money,… [Read More]

This is one in a series of posts on the Nikon Z9. 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; just… [Read More]