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diglloydReviewsdiglloyd.com server Back Up All it took was a power cycling of the router down in a Sunnyvale server room, but the provider took their time about it. They promise to fix the broken process.

10.15

diglloydReviewsSpectral Distribution: High Infrared Under the Green Canopy of a Persimmon Tree Lighting quality matters to human health, circadian rhythms, etc. The spectral distribution, the time of day eg circadian rhythm, etc.

10.15

diglloydReviewsSHOOTOUT: Sony A7R VI vs Sony A7R V — Detail Capture Using the finest lens I have available, the Voigtlander FE 50mm f/2 APO Lanthar Aspherical at f/5.6, I look at how much detail can be extracted at 60MP vs 66MP.

08.05

diglloydReviewsSony A7R VI: ISO Series 100 to 12800 — Mt Dana Sony A7R VI offers 10% more pixels than the Sony A7R V. Can it maintain its quality level at higher ISOs?

08.05

diglloydReviewsSony A7R VI: Venus, Crescent Moon, Sunset Won't be posting much while away—forgot computer mouse, and it's just a pain in the van.

08.03

diglloydReviewsSony A7R VI Here for Evaluation Sony A7R VI just arrived and I'll be doing some work with it. No promises on how much, due to health challenges. I plan on spending 10 days or so in the White Mountains, hiking ability TBD.

07.09

diglloydReviewsSpectral Distribution: Mid-Day Just Past Sunset Lighting quality matters to human health, circadian rhythms, etc. The spectral distribution, the time of day eg circadian rhythm, etc.

07.03

diglloydReviewsSpectral Distribution: Sunlight through Car Windshield, Ultraviolet and Infrared Lighting quality matters to human health, circadian rhythms, etc. The spectral distribution, the time of day eg circadian rhythm, etc.

07.03

diglloydReviewsSpectral Distribution of Various LED and Halogen Bulbs Lighting quality matters to human health, circadian rhythms, etc. The spectral distribution, the time of day eg circadian rhythm, etc.

07.02

diglloydReviewsLG 6K Display: on sale for $1300 The working space is awesome. I love looking at photos on it. But like all Retina displays , the pixel density makes it hard to assess photos, so I still use my NEC PA302W for that.

06.29

diglloydReviewsMemorial Day: Some Things Were Worth Fighting and Dying For

05.25

The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo