21mm, the Zuikos and Other Lenses From the Past on the Sony α7RII

21mm, the Zuikos and Other Lenses From the Past on the Sony α7RII

By KAREL VAN WOLFEREN Sony has inched closer to making it possible for us to realize even modest large format photographic quality from a camera body we can hold in the palm of our hand. Medium format quality is already within reach of its new 42MP sensor, and Hasselblad will have to come up with […]

F-Stops, Fads, Monstrous Lenses and Composition (Plus Sony A7R with Zeiss Otus Comparisons…)

F-Stops, Fads, Monstrous Lenses and Composition (Plus Sony A7R with Zeiss Otus Comparisons…)

By KAREL VAN WOLFEREN You must have noticed that as popular cameras became smaller, to almost everyone’s delight, the lenses became bigger. Greater portability of one is offset by more weight of the other; unnecessarily heavy normal focal length lenses, some of them pretty monstrous. Could this involve some heretofore unknown law of nature, deserving […]

Sony A7R and a Ton of Legacy Lenses — Full-Resolution Sample Images

Sony A7R and a Ton of Legacy Lenses — Full-Resolution Sample Images

By KAREL VAN WOLFEREN Unlike what happened in some other Asian cities, Japanese photographers did not rush out en masse to get hold of that full-format camera (digital’s new medium format) miraculously squeezed into a palm-sized mirrorless body when it went on sale in Tokyo on November 15. There was no one else besides me […]

The Stitched Counter-Revolution to Bokeh

The Stitched Counter-Revolution to Bokeh

By KAREL VAN WOLFEREN Pixel peepers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your mind! Quite literally. All those infected by the bokeh bug ought to know that the verb form of this Japanese term, bokeh suru, means that you are losing it. The bokeh mania will be with us for some […]