Disorganised thoughts on the Sony a7R II

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It has some outright bugs around handling of SD cards.  For example, it will not record high quality video to a SanDisk Extreme Pro card.  It falsely claims that the card is not UHS-I compliant, nor fast enough – both utter garbage. “Silent” mode (electronic front & rear curtain shutters) makes a significant difference to… Read more

Sony a7R II rolling shutter

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The ‘Silent Shutter’ mode is (electronic front & rear shutters) is very useful as it really does reduce a lot of sensor vibration (not that the a7R’s mechanical shutters are very heavy – certainly nothing like the shutters let alone mirror on an e.g. D7100). However, despite Sony’s claims about the amazing speed of the electronic… Read more

The last five years in photography

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I’ve been reading through the back catalog of Digital Camera magazine, from the first issues available for the iPad back in 2009 or so.  There’s been a few things which have been amusing: Teleconverters back then were apparently a great way to get extra reach basically for free.  Just avoid those 3x teleconverters – those… Read more

D400 wishlist

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Here’s what I want from the mythical D400 (or D7300 – I’m not picky about model names).  Because obviously Nikon reads this blog and uses it to drive all their product decisions. ≥ 50 image buffer.  In 14-bit RAW. ≥ 10 FPS.  I’ll even accept complete viewfinder blackout if it means getting beyond 10 FPS.… Read more

CASE Remote limitations

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Here’s a list of things that are missing or otherwise dysfunctional with the CASE Remote.  Why am I only covering what’s missing?  I guess because, after using it for a while, it really does seem to be defined by what’s missing or broken, more-so than what it can do, which is relatively little. Though I don’t… Read more