B&W Fine Art Photography
B&W Fine Art Photography
When all we had to shoot with was film the limiting factor in terms of sharpness, besides the usual suspects like proper technique etc., was the glass we used. With this I mean that, as long as you stuck to the lowest Iso, a better lens would have shown a better performance and, at a …
Every time sensor resolutions go up the thing people keep asking the most in comments and forums is: will the latest Sony, Sony or Sony* sensor out-resolve our lenses?
Every time I was out shopping for a legacy (or just plain old) lens I had to dig through piles of old magazines and bookmarks to find the info I wanted. Especially dimensions and optical scheme of an old lens are often two difficult data to track down. So I started collecting all these specs …
A couple weeks ago Kai of DigitalRev, with the help of Bellamy of JapanCameraHunter, did a video on the “5 top film cameras for under $1000”. Interesting, but having grown up shooting film in my opinion they got two major things wrong.
Tilt lenses are very popular these days, often for the cheesy (IMHO) effects they let you achieve. But they can be indeed extremely useful in both portrait and landscape photography.
I don’t know what is the tech behind Sony dust reduction system, but it does work amazingly well. I bought my Nex 7 second hand, now a few months ago. I cleaned the sensor when I received the camera, without even checking if it was something necessary to do. I haven’t had to clean it …