Rob de Loe

For this lens, dealing with the problem at the front was my first thought. As an experiment I put flocking material on both sides of this old UV filter. As you can see it masks out most of the ...

Click on the person's user name. Some people have "Galleries". Macro Guy has posted examples of work in these galleries.

That's almost exactly what I did! ;) The price wasn't outrageous -- more like what I call the "I don't really want to sell you but let's see what happens" price. Once the light gets past the mount, ...

Thanks for the feedback. Yes indeed, some tele lenses for 24x36mm do cover the GFX sensor well. Simply by design they tend to larger image circles. GFX users who aren't shifting report very good ...

The Schneider-Kreuznach Componon-S 180mm f/5.6 is an excellent enlarging lens that can work really well as a taking lens. It's sharp wide open at close distances, and excellent at infinity when ...

Today felt like a spring day, but those of us who have lived in this region for a while know that winter is just taunting us. We have many cold days to go before the real spring arrives. The ...

There you go! I'm glad it's useful. To your point, I was playing with a new lens the other day and had left JPEG+RAW on, so I took a moment to compare the files. Wow, but the JPEG was throwing away ...

You bet. That's actually all the XRAWStudio software is doing. If you can't do it in the camera with the menus, you can't do it in XRAWStudio.

Regard XRAWStudio, it's a tool to use your camera to process the RAW file in your camera on your card and produce a JPEG or TIFF. Basically it's using the engine inside the camera to do the work, ...

This is good work. Individually, each photo is strong, but together as a group they create a whole that is larger than the sum of the parts. They make me think about motion and change and time.

I've never experienced this, and I can't find anything in the manual that points to this being a setting issue. You can lock out the joystick in shooting mode. And you can lock out certain ...

That's a street shooter's dream camera right there! ;) Thanks for the memories. I never hand held mine. That's for sure. It was always on a tripod.

Very small differences in focus can affect aberrations. Here are two f/5.6 images with the 50/3.5. In both I'm focusing on a subject that is 4.28km in the distance. These branches are about 10m ...

It's a beast, that's for sure, but I used it in the field. What I'm carrying around now is heavier.

That's actually a really good point. I routinely shoot at small apertures to maximize depth of field, and I use good adapted lenses that give me camera movements, but which aren't as killer sharp ...

After examining the DPReview studio test you drew our attention to this morning, I would agree. The differences between the GFX 100 and 50R files are more obvious in more places in the DPReview ...

In another post, Erik drew attention to the IQ4150 reference scene files. Of course in light of this thread Macro Guy started I had to compare to see how the GFX 100 and GFX 50R files did when ...

The two links I posted above allow for answering exactly this question. It's as close as you can get without owning both cameras to controlling for variables other than the sensor. If the standard ...

That's an intriguing question. Obviously the GFX 100 file has to be much better than an uprezzed GFX 50R file, right? How about this as a way to explore? Head over to Imaging Resources and grab ...

What Chris said. Mine makes that same tiny noise I hear in your video. There are many threads already about noises GF lenses make. ;) It's normal.