I used to do a lot of underwater photography. Whenever I was on a dive boat and the crew asked us where we wanted to go next, the non-photographers tended to opt for someplace new. The photographers wanted to go back to a place we’d already dived. Ruth Bernhard used to make repeated suggestions that photographers… [Read More]
Continuous bracketing on the alpha 7 cameras
Automatic bracketing is implemented on the Sony alpha 7 cameras as a shutter, or drive, mode,. There are two modes, continuous and single shot. If you use continuous mode, the raw (pre-compression) bit depth is changed from 13 bits to 12 bits, just like when the camera operates in continuous shutter mode without auto-bracketing. Here… [Read More]
Turning around
There’s an exercise that used to be popular in landscape workshops. The instructor would have all the students line up on what they thought was the best — for them — image to be made at some location. He’d — and it usually was a he — would go around and look at the picture… [Read More]
Who are the rock-star sensor designers?
Digital image sensors are for the most part analog integrated circuits. Traditionally, analog ICs, and analog circuits in general, have been an area where a few highly-talented engineers made the breakthroughs and basked in the acclaim from their fellow engineers, if not necessarily becoming rich in the process. Everybody who knows a lot about hi-fi knows… [Read More]
Not too much celebrating
I ended yesterday’s post on celebrating the process by wondering if I should really kick over the traces and go with a white background and lens/sun artifacts like this: Cooler heads have prevailed, and I’m liking this better: The process of selecting the right set of images for this picture was time consuming. It was… [Read More]
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