
Eye-AF?
Tested a Nikon Z6 mirrorless camera yesterday. First thing I did was upgrade it to version 2.0 firmware. The one that introduced eye-autofocus. (more…)
Eye-AF?
Tested a Nikon Z6 mirrorless camera yesterday. First thing I did was upgrade it to version 2.0 firmware. The one that introduced eye-autofocus. (more…)
Bad printing on your test chart, in focus, that’s what you want to see!
Took up bird photography lately. Using the 200 – 500 mm f/5.6 supertelezoom on my Nikon D850, I was getting good results, I thought. But when I reached for more reach,
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I’ve fallen into the fisheye trap. There is a long-standing fascination with these lenses.
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Vanilla ice cream, Apfelstrudel and a 45.7 megapixel beast
I’m being ungrateful and have been replacing the Nikon D800 that served me so well shooting the wedding with a new body. Ten days ago at Photokina, mirrorless system cameras were all the rage. I had a look through a Nikon Z7 and found the electronic viewfinder straining to my still blissfully good eyesight. Same with the other manufacturer’s EVIL (electronic viewfinder, interchangeable lens, that moniker should be standard!) camera proposals. Only the Leica SL stood out, but that one is a bit out of my price range, especially it’s autofocus lenses.
I kept the Sony alpha 7RIII for last and had a salesman at a big camera store in Nuremberg demonstrate it to me last Saturday. But when neither he nor his colleagues (more…)
As smooth as the drink
As soon as I gave my Leica M6 to my son for his 25-th birthday, I missed it. That’s the way heart-felt presents should feel.
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GAS in the kitchen!
If you forego the current version of Nikon’s 24 – 70 mm f/2.8 Pro zoom and instead get the version before that, you can save a lot of money. I did when I got a used Nikon AF-S Nikkor 24- 70 mm f/2.8 G ED the day before yesterday. Been putting it to the test since, here are some first results:
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Think about it. If you’re not doing flash in total darkness, you’ve always got more than one light source. (more…)
Autofocus sensors right to the edge of the frame
My main DSLR, a Nikon D 800, is 4 years old and has 80000 actuations. Should I trust it to work flawlessly during this year’s photo projects (especially my son’s wedding)? Not without a backup body, no, I won’t.
Beauty Dish is beautiful!
So, the flash, it’s complicated. And sorry for the Queen quote in the title. Be forewarned, this is a noob perspective on off-camera flash
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