I have to send in my M8 for service twice and M9 once for service and for some reason Leica decided to swap out the sensor on my M8 and reset the counter to 91
Here how to put the camera into Service Mode:
I enjoy listening Korean Song on the Smart phones but most of the times, when I transfer MP3s onto Android OS Smart Phones, the Korean in the Mp3 Tags are all broken….
I discovered that it is cause by the MP3 Tag Version and the easy fix is to re-write the MP3 Tags with the correct(?) version.
If you re-write the MP3 Tags with ID3v2.4, the problem goes away~
I find Mp3tag is good enough and easy to use for this fix.
Before Sunrise @ Death Valley
Making the most of 32×40 matboard
I was looking for a way to get the most out of 32″x40″ matboard and I found this link from Logan.
The Hasselblad H3DII-39 digital back is just awesome!!!! and this back can be used on other large format cameras with proper adapter and firewire power supply.
Someone from slrclub.com was wondering if H3D digital back can be fitted on H2 body and that made me wonder… what if I supply power via Firewire onto the back, it should work!!! So I put that into the test.
H3DII39onH2
So this is the setup – H3DII-39 digital back on H2(H1 upgrade) body! I powered the back with Firewire800 and turn the power on the H2 Body:
H3DII39onH2 – message on the back
H3DII39onH2 – message on the body
H3DII39onH2 – power via Firewire800
The outcome prove that my guess was wrong…. Either H1/H2 body is saying “I am H1/H2” to the back or the back is somehow figuring out that it is attached to H1/H2…
So the last test was to see if the H3DII-39 digital back can operate by itself:
H3DII39onH2 – Back itself
Yeah, it works by itself so if it is attached to large format camera with an adapter and the sync cord, it will operate just fine.
Update 2013/02/04
I was told that actually this can do done if I cover the contacts on the back(or on the body) and use the sync cord and setting the digital back as the “view camera mode”. I should try this out when I get a chance…
Here is a Grey Scale Tester which shows the grey scales from 0 to 255.
I found this document from HasselbladDigitalForum.com and I may want to use it later.
Not the actuation reset(cannot be done) but the file name counter reset by this document.
I have to say that I was never happy with my Nikkor 85mm F/1.4 AF-D lens outputs. After using it on D800E and D3, I was sure that its AF is off – back-focusing…. So I looked for some good AF Focus Test Charts on the internet and found some.
http://regex.info/blog/photo-tech/focus-chart
http://www.bealecorner.com/trv900/respat/
http://focustestchart.com/focus21.pdf
I must say that I am rather disappointed with the results of my AF testing on all of my current Nikkor lenses. Only one lens is spot on and the rest needs some AF Tuning on the both cameras. For some reason, they all experiences back-focusing and none with front-focusing…
Focus Test Chart Instruction PDF
The new Nikon D800(E) produces 36MP shots out of the camera and I always wonder how they compare with medium format digital back(MFDB) outputs like Hasselblad H3DII-39. In the camera world, size matters!!! In the film world, film size matters!!! In the digital world, the sensor size matters!!! The question is about the 35mm format lenses. Can they produce 36MP cable images? I am not going to even try to answer this question. Here are some of the charts that I use to compare/discover the resolution of the lenses and camera sensors.
