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Sony 16-35mm f4

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The Floating Torii Gate | Lightroom + Luminar 3

Deep within Kyushu island in the Ariake Sea of Japan are these cool Torii gates that get flooded twice a day with the high tide. The official name for this spot is The Floating Torii Gate of Oouo Shrine. Not sure what the story is with these, every time I read up on them the story seems slightly different and it never makes any sense. Something about blessing the waters for better fishing, or there is something about some giant fish. That's usually how it goes with historical sites in Japan. A giant catfish, a giant fish, a mountain god, etc. Fun stuff.
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A Crazy Storm & My Current Landscape Workflow

We were lucky. The rivers all around us were on the brink of overflowing and many of the neighbor towns had to evacuate. We live in a giant apartment complex that could probably withstand a tsunami so we didn't have too much to worry about, but as the rivers all around us started filling up and our phones continued beeping with alerts about evacuations for areas near us, we were still a bit nervous. It never let up from relentless pouring rain.
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Sunset Over Palm Springs & An Annoying A7rII

I pulled out my ol Sony A7rII again. I had to take a break from it for awhile and focus on some of my Fujifilm lens reviews. You know, I never did a full review on the Sony A7r II. Weird right? But there is a good reason . . . I don't really love it. And because I don't love it, it's hard for me to get excited enough about it to spend the time reviewing it. It's almost a super cool camera, almost, but there are a few things that really bother me.
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Sony 16-35mm F4 FE T* Lens Review & Sample Photos

I hate that I didn't buy this lens sooner. It's a perfect match for the Sony A7(r)(s) II series of cameras both old and new and I'm absolutely in love with it.

The lens is only F4, but I would like to think a lens like this would be used mostly by landscape or architecture photographers where wider apertures would not really be needed. But for those occasions when you do need the lens in low light and are going handheld, the OSS saves the day.

There are a lot of things I love about this lens, and very few things I don't like, making this lens one of my favorite, go-to lenses with the Sony A7r II.

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Summer Waves – Sony A7rII

Summer waves at the Huntington Beach Pier.

Some of the strangest weather I've experienced in Southern California this last week. We were driving south on the 405, it was 100 degrees outside, then 10 minutes later, it was 75 and raining. 

Usually, when we get this crazy weather, we also get insane sunsets. I'm glad I was able to make it to Huntington Beach. I was thinking the sunset was going to be a dud, but nature gave a nice surprise.

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Sony A7r II A Quick Look At Diffraction

Now that the Sony A7r II has 42 megapixels of madness, it's a good idea to look at how it handles diffraction with a few lenses.

Right now the consensus is that your aperture and megapixel count will have an impact on your image detail due to diffraction. Shooting higher apertures like f16-f22 will result in softer images vs shooting at f4-f8. Also more megapixels will impact how your images look at higher apertures.

However, from what I've been seeing from doing various diffraction tests with different cameras and different lenses, it's not only aperture and megapixel count that impact diffraction.

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