by Darin Boville
by Darin Boville
(This post is part of an ongoing review of the iPhone 12 Pro Max.) It was dark and getting darker as I drove away from the Teutonia Peak trailhead in the Mojave National Preserve. I turned right, heading away from…
(This post is part of an ongoing review of the iPhone 12 Pro Max.) When I first turned down Cima road from I-15 I was relieved. The news reports in August had been depressing, nighttime videos of firemen battling a…
My new camera has arrived and I bought it in gold. Two years ago I had an iPhone 6s Plus, which I got only by pressing the manager of a local Apple retail store when my version 6 Plus phone…
(This post is part of a series of posts reviewing the Fuji 50mm f lens.) If you hold it and shift it around so the light reflects off the glass, the surface of a Glimmerglass filter looks like it has…
(This post is part of a series of posts reviewing the Fuji 50mm f lens.) Beach Bokeh Boo! The Fuji 50mm f compared to the 56mm f There is far more to a lens than bokeh—the character of the out-of-focus…
(This post is part of a series of posts reviewing the Fuji 50mm f lens.) Bokeh is a word for the background (or foreground, I suppose) blur characteristics of an image. It differs from lens to lens (sometimes by a…
(This post is part of a series of posts reviewing the Fuji 50mm f lens.) “First light” is a phrase from the astronomy community, usually referring to the first road-test image taken with a newly-built telescope, but it is also…
(This post is part of a series of posts reviewing the Fuji 50mm f lens.) The new Fuji 50mm f lens is here—what is it like? With any super-fast lens your expectations are that it will be huge, with a…
(This post is part of a series of posts reviewing the Fuji 50mm f lens.) If you were designing a lens what would you do? Ahead of you is a line of trees, planted in a straight row. They form…
In my review of the Peak Design Travel Tripod I mentioned that I had lost the hanging hook, the cap on the bottom of the center extension pole, the first time I had used it. I had taken the hook…