Photo Jottings

1/29/09

Check out the Sony 85mm F/1.4 Carl Zeiss Planar review.  This is an expensive special use lens aimed at advanced amateurs, as well as professional photographers.  Uses include portraiture work, and available light, hand-held shooting.  This very well built lens is sharp wide open, but exhibits normal veiling haze and axial color fringing at F/1.4-2.  Big deal, when…

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1/23/09

I have a new Favorite links page now located on the Nav bar to the left.  It’s incomplete, so I’ll be adding to it occasionally, until I get them all up and organized.  Look for the Sony 85mm F/1.4 review sometime next week.  I’m running it through the paces right now.

Has anyone noticed the Sony A900 sensor is…

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1/20/09

I have a couple of updates, one of them way overdo!!  But first, check out the guy cruising through the neighborhood with a jet pack on!  Click the picture for a quick tour and explanation.

Next, and the one way overdo is the lens review methods and terminology page.  This page explains what’s behind the lens reviews, the …

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1/15/09

Check out the review of a “really wide” wide-angle zoom lens, the Sigma 12-24mm F/4.5-5.6.  I got carried away again, (didn’t I just say that?) and posted quite a few pictures, so dial up users be patient. I finally lucked out and picked up a good Sigma lens without having to send it back immediately for warranty work!  …

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1/12/09

I got a little carried away with the lens reviews updates, and decided to include some MTF charts (on G and CZ) and internal lens illustrations on most Sony lenses.  Go here for an example, and scroll down to the last product shots.  I pulled these from the Sony pdf lens & accessories brochure, though Sony hasn’t updated …

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1/4/09

I’ve finished all the full frame lens reviews, so there’s no gap in results anymore.  I’m re-checking all the “DT” lenses for any inaccuracies, then I’ll move on to more lens reviews.  Proof reader Andy; I updated the Minolta TC compatibility paragraph!!  Thanks.

 Also, I moved the October home page entries to the Home page archives, so if something…

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12/31/08

I’m close to having all the full frame updates completed, hopefully I can be done by this weekend, so check back.  In the mean time, check out the four updated lens reviews below.

I’ve been updating the lens price guide page regularly, and have noticed recent substantial price reductions from sellers, mostly from eBay.  If you have some extra …

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12/24/08

I have a couple of full frame updates, and it looks like I may get my hands on the Sigma 12-24mm lens within the next few days, (hopefully, someone won’t read this entry today or tomorrow), and I should have a review by the first part of January.    I re-shot the 70mm full frame corner crops for the Sony …

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