Rob's Photography New Zealand: Inspirational New Zealand Photography Home Page

Welcome to my New Zealand photography site!

The above sunset was taken at Peka Peka, which is near Waikanae in the North Island of New Zealand.

This site includes the following sections:

The new section includes a selection of images that have recently been added to this site.

The top 10 section includes a selection of 10 of the photographs that have been very popular with visitors to this site.

The landscapes section includes photographs of mountains, lakes, rivers, seascapes, sunsets, and sunrises

The floral section includes photographs of gardens and flowers.

The nature section includes photographs of animals and birds.

The other section includes photographs of cities, buildings, tourist attractions, and other places of interest.

The contact section gives contact details, together with the disclaimer notice.

The image index lists in alphabetical order the names of all the images and articles on this site. By using the "Edit" "Find" function in your browser, you can search this page to find out whether an image or article you are interested in is on this site.

When you click on a thumbnail image that is displayed on this site, you will obtain a page that has an enlargement of this image. If the description of a thumbnail image includes an asterisk (*) this denotes there is a sub-menu of images on this topic on the enlargement page. For example, if you click on the thumbnail image for the Battle Hill Farm Walk, you will obtain several more images that were taken while on this excellent walk.

Technical articles

Three of the more popular technical articles on this site are as follows:

How to calculate pixel size / pixel pitch: Calculation of the approximate width and area of one pixel on the sensor of a digital camera

Full frame cameras vs APS-C cameras: Analysis of the crop factor and "telephoto advantage" of an APS-C camera

Advantages and disadvantages of cropping images to gain extra reach. This article also gives some examples of the calculation of focal length

Other technical articles on this site are indexed here and include articles about determining print size, and upgrading your digital camera.

New technical camera comparisons of pixel size, pixel density, reach etc.

The Sony SLT-A58 was announced on 20 February 2013 and it has 20.1 megapixels. Click here to see a comparison of the image size, pixel density, and pixel size of the full frame Sony A99 with the APS-C Sony A58. The net effect of the 39% “pixel density advantage” of the Sony A58, is to produce a print at 200 ppi, that is about 7.6 inches wider (or about 39% wider) than that produced with the same field of view from the cropped image of A99.

The full frame Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX1 was announced in September 2012, and it is an amazing compact camera with a fixed 35mm F2 lens. The RX1 has 24.3 megapixels and a sensor size of 35.8mm x 23.8mm. The RX1 uses a version of the sensor that is in the new full frame Sony SLT-A99. Click here to see a comparison of the image size, pixel density, and pixel size of the compact Sony RX1 with the compact Sony RX100.

The full frame Sony SLT-A99 was announced in September 2012. It has 24.3 megapixels and is the replacement for the 24.6 megapixel full frame Sony A900. Click here to see a comparison of the image size, pixel density, and pixel size of the full frame Sony A99 with the APS-C Sony A77.

The amazing compact Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-RX100 was announced in June 2012. It has a sensor size of 13.2mm x 8.8mm and effective megapixels of 20.2. This page explains why the new full frame Sony SLT-A99 and the new full frame Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-RX1 both have a pixel pitch that is about 147% greater than that of the new RX100. If the full frame Sony A99 and the full frame Sony RX1 had the same pixel density as the Sony RX100, they would both have about 147 megapixels. In addition, if the APS-C Sony A77 had the same pixel density as the Sony RX100, it would have about 63 megapixels!

Click here to see an interesting comparison of a 36 megapixel full frame camera, the Nikon D800, with a 24 megapixel APS-C camera, the Nikon D3200. This page shows that the 24 megapixel APS-C camera has about 26% greater reach than the 36 megapixel full frame camera, because its pixel size is about 26% smaller than that of the full frame camera.

In addition, click here to see an interesting analysis of the pixel density advantage (including pixel size) of a 36 megapixel full frame camera (such as the Nikon D800) when compared with a 16 megapixel full frame camera (such as the Nikon D4). This page explains why the 36 megapixel full frame camera has about 50% greater reach than the 16 megapixel full frame camera. The Nikon D800 and the Nikon D4 were introduced early in 2012.

The full frame 22.3 megapixel Canon EOS 5D Mark III was announced in March 2012. Click here to see a comparison of the image size, pixel density, and pixel size of the Canon 5D III with that of the Canon 7D. This page shows that, when compared with the Canon 5D Mark III, the Canon 7D has a linear pixel density that is approximately 45% greater than that of the 5DIII.

Click here to see an interesting analysis of the pixel density advantage (including pixel size) of a 36 megapixel full frame camera (such as the Nikon D800) when compared with a 22 megapixel full frame camera (such as the Canon 5D Mark III). This page explains why the 36 megapixel full frame camera has about 28% greater reach than the 22 megapixel full frame camera.

Blogs

Click here to go to the index of blogs on this site. The blogs are casual short articles that deal with triptych photography, rare visit of a leopard seal to Wellington, vintage Sony memory sticks, Canon wonder camera, thoughts on whether photography is an art or a science, and Sony A99 high ISO bird images in very low light.

Recent addition to the site

One of the latest images to be added to the site is of the view over Waikanae from the lookout tower at Nga Manu Nature Reserve. This image was captured using the sweep panorama function of the full frame Sony A99. A selection of the latest images to be added to the site can be seen here.

Panoramic view over Waikanae, New Zealand

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.

Cameras used to capture images on this site

My main camera is the incredible Sony Alpha 99, which is a 24.3 megapixel full frame camera. My main lens is the great 24mm - 70mm Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T*. My telephoto lens is the the Sony 70mm-300 mm G SSM lens. The Sony A99 captures incredible detail and the images are suitable for making very big enlargements. I also own the very nice APS-C 16.2 megapixel Sony A55 (SLT-A55V) camera. This camera is light to carry and I sometimes use it when on long walks in preference to the heavier full frame camera. I often use the Sony 18mm - 250mm lens with the Sony A55. I also enjoy using the amazing 20.2mp Sony RX100, which fits in a pocket and is very useful when it is not appropriate to carry a larger camera.

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