Jason Bradley penned this and sent it out in one of his newsletters. I liked it so much that I asked for his permission to show it to you all here as a guest post. Thanks, Jason, and take it away Here we are, well into the new year and with a good head start… [Read More]
Why we photograph
A friend of mine is fond of saying: “If you buy a violin, you own a violin; if you buy a camera, you are a photographer.” Hold that thought. I’ve been thinking recently about why so many people seem to talk past each other on photography boards and have decided that a part of the… [Read More]
Dealing with focus shift with native lenses on the Fuji GFX
This is a continuation of a series of posts on the Fuji GFX 50S. 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;… [Read More]
Light falloff vs distance for round sources
Most serious photographers, engineers, and scientists know about the inverse-square relationship of light intensity versus distance from a point source. Double the distance, and you get a quarter of the photon flux that passes through a given plane area normal to the direction of the light. Most engineers and scientists — but surprisingly, not most… [Read More]
Testing for the MF look
There is a recurring theme in many Internet fora that there is a “look” to medium format (MF) images apart from their generally higher acutance and detail, even when shot with lenses and settings that are equivalent to their full-frame (FF) counterparts. The claim is that the look is so strong that it survives downsampling… [Read More]