Note: this was written in 2021 (and updated in 2022) based on version 1 of the Oceanic+ app. In September 2023 version 2 of that app was released, and it appears to have fixed quite a few limitations (e.g. you can finally export your log book, as a standard UDDF file). Once I’ve gathered some… Read more
This is the second post in a series of evaluations of the Nikkor Z 100-400. Please refer to the first post for details about the test equipment & methodology. In this post, I’m going to compare performance in the image centre between these three telephoto lenses at 400mm: Unlike in the first post, where the… Read more
Last week my Nikkor Z 100-400 arrived. I’m in principle upgrading from the AF-S 80-400G, which has been my all-time favourite lens (both sentimentally and in terms of the yielding the greatest proportion of my favourite photos). Of course, it’d be nice to see how those two lenses actually compare – I suppose I could… Read more
Normally I’d just post a review like this on the merchant’s website – in this case Amazon. Yet perplexingly when I tried to do so, I was given the error message: Sorry, we are unable to accept reviews for this product. This product has limitations on submitting reviews. There can be a number of reasons… Read more
This is a follow-up to my previous Raw converter comparison – you can see that post for info on things like my motivation, basic processing methods, etc. The goal in this case is just to test how well each raw editor – Aperture 3.6, Capture One 9 Pro, DxO Optics 10, and Lightroom CC 2015.3… Read more
Prelude For better or worse, Aperture is dying. Abandoned by Apple many years ago now, it’s frankly amazing it hasn’t completely broken already, given the steady stream of system updates and such changes since then. Regardless, it has always had rough edges, and on top of all that I’ve grown increasingly disappointed with its image… Read more
