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First Cut from Ireland
This is my first post from my photography trip to Ireland, with Peter Cox (https://www.petercox.ie/), who I can not recommend enough: knowledge + skill + humour. It was also my first trip to Ireland!...
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Taking the EOSM to new heights
A lot has happened since my last post, so it may take me a few blog entries to catch up with things.From a photography perspective I have been fortunate enough to travel to Ireland and France with my...
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EOSM Medium Format Photography
Following from my last post, I thought I would show what a full 645 image looks like using the Fotodiox 645 Adapter and an EOSM.First, let's remind ourselves what the basic features of the EOSM...
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Wirelessly Control your camera and Magic Lantern states
I thought I would share an experiment I’ve just successfully completed, whereby I can now wirelessly control Magic Lantern states, for example setting combinations of Dual ISO, Advanced Bracketing and...
View ArticleInfinity focusing in your head: The rule of 10.
For those that just want the answer, you can safety skip to the bottom of this post. If you are a landscape photographer, you tend to have a dominant focusing need: namely getting everything from a...
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Focus bracketing using the Rule of 10
In the last post I introduced the ‘Rule of 10 (ROT)’ for those that are looking to manage focus from infinity to a near field subject, eg landscape photographers. The ROT is simply hyperfocal focusing...
View ArticleFurther examples on using the Rule of 10
In the last couple of posts I introduced and illustrated, what I call, the Rule of 10 (ROT) approach to focusing. Namely, achieving focus solutions in your head, without any Apps or look-up tables. In...
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Depth of Field Bar
Way back I introduced the idea of a focus bar.My first attempt was, in retrospect, too ambitious; as I attempted to cover everything to do with focusing. In other words in became too complicated and...
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Nothing in life is new
When I thought of the 'Rule of 10', I did a search on line to see if someone else had thought of the idea: but couldn't find any reference to the idea.But, at the back of my mind, was the thought,...
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Focusing Update
 This is a revised post as DoF Bar had a minor program error that resulted in the DoFs being mis-reported. The link on the right has been updated.If you have been following my recent posts you will be...
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Focus Tutorial: Part 1
In past posts I’ve talked about focus and introduced two tools that help you make informed decisions about focusing, namely: The Rule of Ten (ROT) and the (Canon EOS only) Depth of Field Bar (DoF Bar)....
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DoF Bar: Getting Started
In this post, and in future ones, I'll provide some examples of using the DoF Bar; but before doing so, let’s remind ourselves what DoF Bar looks like if we are ‘simply’ using it to provide DoF...
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DoF Bar: Simple Focus Bracketing
In this post we will look at how DoF Bar can help you get perfect in-camera focus bracket sets. In the next post we will look at more advanced focus bracketing, but for now we will keep it simple. The...
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The Secret of getting Cheaper and Better Cameras
As readers of my blog know, I love 'hacking' my cameras. For my EOS family, my visible band EOSM, my IR band EOSM, my 'medium format' EOSM and my 5D3, Magic Lantern is, of course, an essential tool. ML...
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Some thoughts on focus bracketing with the G7X
Having had a few days to 'play around' with my 'new' G7X, I thought I would start talking about the power that's built into this little marvel, especially when running CHDK.The basic G7X has limited...
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Landscape Focus Bracket Script for the G7X
In this post I'll be talking about my latest 'toy', the Canon Powershot G7X and in particular focus stacking with it.As we know, macro focus stacking is rather 'easy' to undertake, albeit rather...
View ArticleUpdate of Landscape Bracketing script
Just a short post to say I've updated the CHDK Lua script, that runs on Canon Powershot cameras.The CHDK post about the script may be read here:...
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More Focusing & Stacking with CHDK
I've now updated the CHDK Landscape Focus Bracketing script and thought it worthwhile reminding readers what this script can do.Being a CHDK Lua script, it runs on Canon Powershots. I've tested it on...
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Bad weather = self development
Looks like a miserable day weather-wise, so I decided to refine my workflow associated with my visible band & IR band digital (EoSM) backs on my 645 Vizelex RhinoCam system.The RhinoCam allows me,...
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Further 645 Experiments
Over the past few weeks I've been 'perfecting' my 645 workflow, using my RhinoCam and a Sekor 35mm lens. The lens is a second hand one and exhibits a little 'softness' in one corner/edge, however, it's...
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