A year or so ago, I wrote this post complaining that lens adapters were always too short. Then, in this post, I reported that, at least in the case of Novaflex, they were too short by design. A week or so ago, in this post, I told you all that I had received two adapters… [Read More]
How much do you do in post?
I made infrared tree exposures Saturday and Sunday, and spent most of yesterday stitching and editing the images. In photography, there are two extreme views of post processing. The first is that it’s all over when you release the shutter. Get that right and you don’t have to do anything else. In the film era,… [Read More]
Does using live view make your images noisier?
It has been speculated that using live view, because it heats up the sensor, will add to the shadow noise in images, and should be avoided. An extreme twist on this point of view says that you shouldn’t use mirrorless cameras because, with the exception of the M240, their live view is on all the… [Read More]
Learning on the job
No Battle Plan Survives Contact With the Enemy Thus spoke German military strategist Helmuth von Moltk. He was apparently right about war. The obvious corollary certainly applies to photography. And thus it is with my infrared trees series. Let’s start with lenses. I started out with the LifePixel-modified Sony alpha 7, the Coastal Optical 60mm f/4,… [Read More]
Screen resolution for print simulation
We saw a couple of days ago that viewing 36MP images on-screen at 2:1 exposed flaws that were invisible in 19×12.67 inch prints from an Epson 4900 on Exhibition Fiber paper, even upon close inspection with reading glasses, but not with a loupe. I need to add one more specification into the mix: the monitor… [Read More]
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