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2024-02-26 Sony A1, Sony A7R V, Sony Mirrorless: Video 'Picture Profile' a Bad Idea for Still Images

2024-02-25 Sony A7R V: Perfect ETTR at ISO 50/100 using Zebra Display

2024-02-24 ETTR, Camera Histograms vs RAW Histograms, ISO 100 vs ISO "Lo"

2024-02-23 Case Study: Sony A7R V: Metering, Dynamic Range, ETTR/ESTR, Camera Histograms, ETTR (Color Card)

2024-02-21 Case Study: Sony A7R V: Metering, Dynamic Range, ETTR/ESTR, Camera Histograms, ETTR (Birch Trees)

2024-02-21 Sony Please Fix: Metering Throws Away as Much as 2.33 Stops of Dynamic Range

2024-02-13 Please fix this Nikon/Sony/Fujifilm: Pixel Shift Assembly Should Generate Finished Images, not Make-Work for Us

2024-02-12 Nikon Z8 Delivers Best Pixel Shift Out There... and botches the win by not doing the obvious

2024-01-30 Sony Finally Fixes “Unable to Magnify” bug in Sony A7R V

2024-01-30 Sony A7R V RAW Files: Picture Profile *does* Change the RAW File  — Unprecedented

2024-01-19 Sony A7R V: “Unable to Magnify” Image — does Sony fix any bugs?

2024-01-01 Botched Sony A7R V, Reader Comment: “unprofessional to sell a pro camera for $3800 that can’t magnify a recorded image”

2023-07-31 Sony A7R V Focus Bracketing is an Unreliable Engineering Dumpster Fire

2023-07-12 Focus Stepping for Focus Stacking (FOCUS BKT, “focus shift”): Engineering Dumpster Fire from Sony and Fujifilm

2023-05-29 Reader Comment: “Given up on Sony A7R V automatic focus shift shooting/focus bracketing”

2023-01-06 Sony A7R V Focus Bracketing Example @ 12mm: Failure to Reach INF so Badly Blurred, (“Chocolate Brown Alpine Creek”)

2023-01-02 Sony A7R V: Issues with Focus Bracketing for Focus Stacking

2022-12-15 Sony A7R V: Sony Botches Focus Stacking inMultiple Ways  — Precludes Pixel Shift, Frame Averaging, etc

2022-12-15 How much is Sony Botched Camera and Software Design $Costing You? Is Adobe DNG Converter Viable? The Sony Workflow TAX

2022-12-13 Sony A7R V: File Numbering — Resets to 0001 with each Focus Bracketing Series

2022-12-12 Sony Imaging Edge Viewer: Assembles Pixel Shift into Incompatible ARQ — Why Not Industry-Standard DNG? (REVISED)

2022-12-05 Sony A7R V Poor Design: Pixel Shift Disallows Lossless Compressed RAW, Lacks 8-Shot and 32-shot modes

Sony A7R V

5th Generation standard-setting camera..

1. Sony A7R V ETTR: Metering vs Camera Histograms & Zebra vs RawDigger (Birch Trees) 📹
2. Sony A7R V: Metering vs Camera Histograms & Zebra vs RawDigger (Color Card) 📹
3. Sony A7R V: Configuring Zebra Display for ETTR Captures 📹
4. Sony A7R V: Perfect ETTR at ISO 50/100 using Zebra Display
5. Focus Bracketing: Multiple Bugs and Failures
6. Focus Bracketing Example @ 12mm: Failure to Reach INF, Chocolate Brown Alpine Creek

Sony FE 12-24mm f/2.8 GM

Fast extreme wide angle zoom..

1. Focus Bracketing Example @ 12mm: Failure to Reach INF, Chocolate Brown Alpine Creek
2. Focus Bracketing Example @ 16mm: Failure to Reach INF, Aspen

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2024

2024-02-26 Sony A1, Sony A7R V, Sony Mirrorless: Video 'Picture Profile' a Bad Idea for Still Images

2024-02-25 Sony A7R V: Perfect ETTR at ISO 50/100 using Zebra Display

2024-02-24 ETTR, Camera Histograms vs RAW Histograms, ISO 100 vs ISO "Lo"

2024-02-23 Case Study: Sony A7R V: Metering, Dynamic Range, ETTR/ESTR, Camera Histograms, ETTR (Color Card)

2024-02-21 Case Study: Sony A7R V: Metering, Dynamic Range, ETTR/ESTR, Camera Histograms, ETTR (Birch Trees)

2024-02-21 Sony Please Fix: Metering Throws Away as Much as 2.33 Stops of Dynamic Range

2024-02-13 Please fix this Nikon/Sony/Fujifilm: Pixel Shift Assembly Should Generate Finished Images, not Make-Work for Us

2024-02-12 Nikon Z8 Delivers Best Pixel Shift Out There... and botches the win by not doing the obvious

2024-01-30 Sony Finally Fixes “Unable to Magnify” bug in Sony A7R V

2024-01-30 Sony A7R V RAW Files: Picture Profile *does* Change the RAW File  — Unprecedented

2024-01-19 Sony A7R V: “Unable to Magnify” Image — does Sony fix any bugs?

2024-01-01 Botched Sony A7R V, Reader Comment: “unprofessional to sell a pro camera for $3800 that can’t magnify a recorded image”

2023

2023-07-31 Sony A7R V Focus Bracketing is an Unreliable Engineering Dumpster Fire

2023-07-12 Focus Stepping for Focus Stacking (FOCUS BKT, “focus shift”): Engineering Dumpster Fire from Sony and Fujifilm

2023-05-29 Reader Comment: “Given up on Sony A7R V automatic focus shift shooting/focus bracketing”

2023-01-06 Sony A7R V Focus Bracketing Example @ 12mm: Failure to Reach INF so Badly Blurred, (“Chocolate Brown Alpine Creek”)

2023-01-02 Sony A7R V: Issues with Focus Bracketing for Focus Stacking

2022

2022-12-15 Sony A7R V: Sony Botches Focus Stacking inMultiple Ways  — Precludes Pixel Shift, Frame Averaging, etc

2022-12-15 How much is Sony Botched Camera and Software Design $Costing You? Is Adobe DNG Converter Viable? The Sony Workflow TAX

2022-12-13 Sony A7R V: File Numbering — Resets to 0001 with each Focus Bracketing Series

2022-12-12 Sony Imaging Edge Viewer: Assembles Pixel Shift into Incompatible ARQ — Why Not Industry-Standard DNG? (REVISED)

2022-12-05 Sony A7R V Poor Design: Pixel Shift Disallows Lossless Compressed RAW, Lacks 8-Shot and 32-shot modes