Oriental Bay Wellington.
Image taken with the Sony R1 digital camera, using a focal length of 14.3mm
(24mm
in 35mm terms) and at 1/400 sec, F8. This image exhibits no noticeable
vignetting / corner shading / falloff. This is because, in 35mm terms, the
R1 sensor crops a 14.3mm image to the same field of view that is provided by
a 24.3mm lens on a full frame camera (14.3mm x crop
factor of 1.7). See
this article
about the so-called "telephoto advantage" of an APS-C camera when compared
with a full frame camera.
Click
here
to see (for comparative purposes) a wide angle image taken with the
full frame Sony A900. Note, however, that because the A900 is a full frame
camera, there is no "cropping" of its images by the sensor, and this can
occasionally lead to vignetting.
Click
here
to see a detailed explanation of the "telephoto advantage" of the Sony R1
when compared with the Sony A900.
Click
here to see more images
of Oriental Bay.
Click
here to see pictures
that demonstrate the amazing amount of detail in images taken by the Sony
A900 camera.
Click
here to see images of Wellington City.
Click
here
for a discussion about how to obtain high quality large prints from
your digital camera.
Click
here for a
discussion about some factors you should consider when deciding whether to upgrade your digital camera.
To obtain the best appreciation of the quality of the images on this site,
they should be displayed at a relatively small size, because each image has
been reduced in size to a maximum width of only 870 pixels, from the
original width of at least 4900 pixels (or 6000 pixels from my full frame
cameras). In addition, the images have been saved at a low quality setting.
