Allan Olesen

You miss the point: We know the resultant exposure settings of both cameras. The OP told us.

f/5.6 is 3 stops wider than f/16.

You have already stated the shutter speed, f-stop and ISO which was used. Metering doesn't matter then.

I may be missing the obvious here. I guess we would all expect the camera's processor to be heavily occupied right after taking a photo. A lot of data has to be moved, one or two JPEG's have to be ...

You should hook up with Greenpeace and sneak some slanted edges into the banners that they sometimes install on buildings without asking the owner.

As far as I know, Sony's eye-start did something entirely different from what you are describing:
When it felt that the eye was coming near to the viewfinder, it started focusing continuously in...

I know you have been turned around in this thread, and I appreciate that. But still you used these words in your first post: "Overstate the ISO just like Fuji does, don't bother about applying ...

There was some outrage when Marianne Ølund discovered this for one of the Nikon models some years ago. I think it was the D800 using digital gain from ISO1200 and up. But in the meantime it seems ...

All Minolta AF lenses (except Minolta Vectris) will fit the A7 if you use an LA-EA4 adapter. They will have aperture control and AF too, the latter using the AF module in the adapter.

If you think that the quote from Marianne proves that it would get light, then you are not understanding the quote correctly. A  PDAF sensor (at least those used in a separate PDAF module) is ...

If the problem was cold equipment (due to car AC) being brought out into a warm, humid shooting environment, you could try to store your equipment in a warm place in the car. Not melting hot, but ...

To your last question: I think you are asking from a mistaken assumption - that the same distance anywhere in the focus plane will cover the same angle of view. It will not. If the lens is ...

Imagine a plane in the background. The plane is very far away and parallel to the sensor when shooting with the wide angle lens. Now imagine a point in the plane of focus (or the sphere of focus ...

I agree. I have been wondering if my software has made some selection of the sharpest frames for the parts of the photo which were in focus (like focus stacking). I can't remember anymore if I ...

Take a look at my other post in this thread where you can see an example. I used 4 frames with 1 stop between apertures. And every time I stopped the aperture 1 stop down, I used 1 stop longer ...

Yes, probably not what he had in mind. Anyway, I did that some years ago. This post has a link to my original (Danish) thread: https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/59185675 This is the final photo:

You sound disappointed. I have never expected any other reason than the easy doubling/halving. If it is any comfort to you, I use natural logarithms in exposure calculations: Difference in stops = ...

Yes, if we are talking about a normal lens, I fully agree. I have absolutely no idea of the distribution function in an STF lens, but I would assume that it was closer to Gaussian than to a normal ...

When they have a choice between distributions? Or when they are just looking for words to describe a blurring function?

Actually, one of Minolta's last film cameras, the Maxxum/Dynax 7, did have an STF functionality which did exactly this with an ordinary lens. By blending several exposures at different ...