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SONY A1 ii

This seems to me to be the very best camera in the Sony lineup. Since I am a dedicated Sony user with several lenses for the camera, I will not be switching to a different brand. The biggest deal about the A1ii is… everything. From photos to video, it just excels. No blackouts while shooting…

June 17, 2025
Shooting Stars

Tamron 50-400mm lens, f/4.5-6.3. Below was at 50mm. So far, shooting at 400mm is providing too much wobly in the stars. More testing needed. The red dots are a plane passing overhead. It was painful to get to this point, because I had left the camera on Auto Focus mode. Of course it couldn’t focus…

June 15, 2025
Milky Way Photography

To capture the Milky Way or other star-studded field, set up the A7R5 as follows:

June 15, 2025
New Lens Today

Picked up a Tamron 50-400mm F/4.5-6.3 Di III VC VXD today at OC Camera in Laguna Hills, CA. Reviews are very good. Tamron has stepped up its lens game since my first lenses from the maker obtained 15 years ago. I did it backwards. Bought the lens, then studied the reviews. I’m glad I made…

June 12, 2025
Selective Photo Library

Just some of the photos or links to YouTube videos featuring my photography. This is one of many timelapse photos shot on June 11, 2025. Looking northwest from my backyard. On a mobile device, you can zoom in with the pinch maneuver. The resolution is not the highest, as this is JPG file 1.14 MB…

June 11, 2025
Shooting Christmas Lights

Or any other type of night time lights. Set White Balance to Incandescent (or Daylight if they’re LED lights).

June 11, 2025
Focus Magnification

Create a focus magnifier that is extreme. From Friedman. Focus Magnifier – for even greater focusing accuracy, the camera will show you a magnified view of any portion of your frame, allowing you to focus critically. (Peaking Setting can still work here too, but sometimes the contrast isn’t high enough to show the color.) This…

June 11, 2025
Histogram Explained

Above: True Black and True White are the ends of the spectrum, also called “clipping.” Blackout or whiteout. Either one is (obviously) not a good thing. The histogram display simply shows you where the brightness in your image “falls” within the 14-stop range. It is useful when you are shooting subjects that are predominantly white…

June 11, 2025
Brightness Range – What Does The Camera See?

This graphic is a good explanation of light. What is a “stop” or “f/stop?” A “stop” means “a factor of two” in light intensity. So when it says a digital sensor can sense a range of brightness of 14 stops, it means that the brightest part of the picture is no more than 214 =…

June 11, 2025
Touch Focus With LCD

Without looking through the EVF, use the following to make the camera focus and follow a subject by touching the LCD: MENU → → Touch Operation → Touch Operation → On For an interesting twist, try setting MENU → → Touch Operation → Touch Func. In Shooting → Touch Tracking. Now when you touch your…

June 11, 2025

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