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We’ve got one from the first Sony ILCE-A7R3 delivery in the UK, and with a first review of two pages appearing in Cameracraft January/February 2018 from tests in early December, I will be following up with a fuller printed review and more on-line articles here as the camera’s potential unfolds. The Alpha 7 mirrorless . . . → Read More: Sony A7RIII pixel shift with a vintage lens Share this: 3 comments - (Comments are closed)  Cameras (Film), DK's ramblings, Legacy Lenses, NEX System, Sony Digital Cameras  A7R III, A7R MkIII, Alpha, high-resolution, ILCE-A7RM3, mirrorless, multi-shot, pixel shift, PSMS, RGB, Sony 
Sony can make GPS work. They pioneered it in the A55, refined it in the A77, A65 and A99 – and abandoned it without a word in all later A-mount cameras and the entire E-mount series. But they prepped the Multi Function Accessory Shoe to be used with a GPS module – and I believe . . . → Read More: Sony is ready to launch a GPS module Share this: 2 comments - (Comments are closed) Accessories - 3rd party, Accessories - Minolta/Sony, DK's ramblings, NEX System, Rumours, Sony Digital Cameras A6500, A7r, A7RIII, a9, accessory, Alpha, GPS, ILCE, Sony 
If they want to fake a Mars colony story, a video version of LandscapePro 2 could be useful. It’s software developed in Britain, by Anthropics who first created PortraitPro, and it allows you to change almost any landscape beyond recognition. It also allows subtle and careful modifications, or essential commercial fixes like a better . . . → Read More: LandscapePro 2 – changing your world Share this: Comments are closed DK's ramblings, Software Reviews Anthropics, creative, discount, editing, landscape, LandscapePro, masking, Photoshop, plug-in, PortraitPro, post-production, processing, sky, software, stand-alone 
There’s a dismissive and rather superior position some camera club buffs take – ‘why not zoom with your feet?’. It is well worth ignoring. The focal length of your lens, whether your use a zoom or a range of fixed focal length lenses, decides the exact relationship of elements in the picture including one component . . . → Read More: Never say ‘zoom with your feet’… Share this: 4 comments - (Comments are closed) DK's ramblings, Lenses - E mount, Photo Techniques 24-70mm, A7RII, Alpha, Cameracraft, feet, lens, Sony, viewpoint, zoom 
Sony has today released the details of the updated A99II, using a 42MP sensor and 5-axis stabilisation to match the A7RII. It does not appear to have retained GPS and the paragraph highlighted in red later on indicates a weasel-worded possible get out for this – it may not embed GPS in the image . . . → Read More: Sony launches A99II at photokina Share this: Comments are closed Cameras (DSLR), DK's ramblings, Lenses - Alpha Mount, Lenses - E mount, Sony Digital Cameras A99, A99II, Alpha, DSLR, DSLT, DSLT-A99II, full frame, launch, photokina, Sony 
There’s been a controversy surrounding Steve McCurry, a photographer I have listened to on the edge of a conversation a couple of times courtesy of Kodak who were always great sponsors and put his ‘Afghan Girl’ on display at photokina 2012 where McCurry’s work was celebrated. Here’s the story – he’s been changing, or allowing . . . → Read More: Is retouching acceptable? Share this: One comment - (Comments are closed) Darkroom, DK's ramblings, Photo Techniques alter, argument, change, controversy, digital, manipulation, McCurry, modification, original, photographs, photojournalism, Photoshop, retouch 
With the 24-70mm f/2.8 new Sony GM FE lens selling for £1799 (UK) and the A-mount version two 24-70mm f/2.8 for a full £100 more, the cost of a basic mid-range zoom to use with a camera like the A7RII remains very high. There are good arguments to be happy with the 24-70mm f/4 . . . → Read More: Sony 28-75mm f/2.8 SAM on mirrorless FF Share this:No doubt everyone’s seen the article on Petapixel which can best be described as successful clickbait – by Sator, essentially claiming that the whole idea of mirrorless full frame is flawed. Well, the good news is that this article is more flawed than the flaws it’s claiming to point out. First of, let’s simply dismiss . . . → Read More: Bad science and dissing the Sony A7 FE concept Share this: 6 comments - (Comments are closed) DK's ramblings, Legacy Lenses, Lenses - Alpha Mount, Lenses - E mount, NEX System, Sony Digital Cameras article, dissing, mirrorless, negative, opinion, Petapixel, Sator, Sony, view After testing the Sony Carl Zeiss 55mm f/1.8 FE in 2014, I was less than impressed. I may have had a decentred example (it happened to dPreview and at least one photographer I trust to know his lens performance expectations). It was, certainly, pin-sharp on a test chart or a brick wall but the moment . . . → Read More: The best 50mm for A7RII Share this: 4 comments - (Comments are closed) DK's ramblings, Lenses - Alpha Mount, Uncategorized 50mm, bokeh, lens, macro, Minolta, performance, Sony 
I got to try out the first new Voigtländer Sony FE mount lenses with electronic aperture setting and manual focus control with a quick overnight test during the UK Photography Show at the Birmingham National Exhibition Centre, on March 19th 2016. The pre-production 10mm f/5.6 Hyper-Wide-Heliar and 15mm f/4.5 Super-Wide-Heliar are two of a . . . → Read More: Voigtländer FE 10mm f/5.6 and 15mm f/4.5 III Share this: 12 comments - (Comments are closed) Accessories - 3rd party, DK's ramblings, Lenses - E mount, News, NEX System, Sony Digital Cameras 10mm, 12mm, 15mm, David KIlpatrick, E-mount, Heliar, hyper, Leica, lens test, review, Sony, super, ultra, Voigtländer, Voigtlander 10mm FE, Voigtlander 15mm III, wide, wide-angle, wideangle |
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