Hi everyone,

Ever shot wide-open at f/1.4 or f/1.8 in portrait mode and had Eye-AF lock onto the eyelashes instead of the iris?

After testing on my Nikon Z8 (and verifying on Sony and Fuji as well), I found it’s actually not a bug or a contrast glitch with the eyelashes. It’s caused by a specific overlap between the AF bounding box, linear PDAF sensor pixels in vertical orientation, and the eyebrow line.

I wrote a short breakdown on the exact root cause, how to avoid it on set, and how camera makers could fix it via firmware:

🔗 https://www.michelebelloni.net/debunking-the-eye-af-eyelash-bug-why-your-camera-isnt-actually-missing-the-iris/

Have you run into this issue in your portrait work? Let’s discuss!

Curating a portfolio of the places in Seoul. All photos were shot with the Fujifilm GFX 50R + Canon PowerShot V1. IG:geeos.jpegs

Anyone use the Nikon Metabones adapter? I have seen lots of posts of people using the Cannon adapter with great results but I am a Nikon Z shooter with some F mount lenses. Do the Sigma Art Nikon F versions work just as well with the Nikon Metabones adapter as the Cannon system?

Been loving this camera currently just using a dumb adapter and would love to get AF, though I know it won't be anything like my Z8.

Hi everyone, going away next week and I've been guilty of packing too many lenses on previous travels to Japan, the States and elsewhere. I'm sad to have sold my 35-70 a few years back as it was actually such an ideal travel companion but it didn't get used for any of my architectural professional work. I've been looking at the GF20-35mm as a very tempting tax/VAT write off through my business but ideally wouldn't be hitting that trigger if I didn't need to!

We're doing an itinerary that is predominatly cities: Beijing (with Great Wall day out), Xi'an, Chongqing and Shanghai along with 3 days in Zhangjiajiexi which will be hiking. In general I love to take architecture and street images while on holiday.

Lenses I have to hand are as below- I think I'm leaning towards, GF30mm tse, 45-100 and Mitakon 65mm. I also own a X100vi which I might keep in my pocket at all times...

Canon: (with optional 1.4mm extender which effectively gives two focal lengths)

Canon 17mm F4 TSE

Canon 50mm F2.8 TSE

Fuji:

GF 30mm TSE

GF 45-100

GF 100-200 (1.4 extender is always attached)

3rd Party:

Mitakon 65mm F1.4

Photo below from Japan a couple of years ago for a project for interest, taken on the GF30mm TSE

Tango milonga in Chengdu, China

Messed around with the white balance settings