Innholdsfortegnelse for Summer 2015 i N-Photo: the Nikon magazine

You stitch panoramas. Why and how do you do this? ■ Often I’ll stitch a lot of shots to show more of the location rather than use a wider lens. In the recent Belvoir Castle shoot, those are examples of using stitching for all three of the resulting shots, apart from the close-ups of the models. In one shot you have the model on the bed, then I’ll stitch on the other side of the room so you have the bed on one side captured in one frame and then a bit more of the room in the other frame to achieve the depth of field I want on her and prevent the distortion I’d get from just using a wide-angle lens. The tricky thing with being in love with…

Our lens tests are based on a two-stage procedure. First, lab tests are carried out shooting two test charts under controlled lighting conditions. The results are processed using Imatest Master, so that we can quantify optical performance in terms of sharpness, distortion and chromatic aberrations. Overall quality is assessed at the centre, edge and corners of the images. Some of the lenses in this group, however, intentionally blur images towards the edges of images, so low scores aren’t necessarily a bad thing. For real-world testing, we use each of the lenses under varying indoor and outdoor lighting conditions. Overall handling is checked, along with smoothness and precision of controls. In some cases, the minimum focus distance and the aperture of lenses are not even specified by the manufacturer, so we…