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I usually use RAW or RAW + JPEG with JPEG in a very distant last so this is a rather mute point to me. Mostly I then run them through DxO or C1 however they come out the camera. So even aside from the fundamental problem of subjective bias and your own colour perception, the question to me is how ma...

I would assume that given that Sony has announced the A6500 that an A mount A77III based on this will be offered. Given the apparent built up demand for the A99 II then it may not be available until April/May 2017 even if announced say in January 2017. Sony may not have put the A77 II back into prod...

And yet for all the Doom and Gloom about the A Mount it has survived and with cameras such as the A77 II / A99 II offers a quality products.

Yes the A99 II is very interesting but I suspect that an A77 III would be a bigger money spinner for Sony. Given that the A7 III would come out first then I can't see a new A77 model much before the end of 2017 though.

My first thoughts were the 1954 movie Sabrina with Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn and William Holden but of course Audrey was no Jane Mansfield. So perhaps the lawyers got involved and to stop the directors and investors involved in the movie suing them, they had to change the "look and feel&q...

I am interested in where these "early reports" are coming from. It may be illuminating. Very few people outside of Sony have had any real access to either late pre-production or production cameras. This not some sort of oblique attack on Olympus as I think the about (perhaps) to be release...

Even as a niche product the A mount probably needs 2 APS and 2 FF cameras. So perhaps using the new A99 II body with the sensor etc from the presumably forthcoming A7 III may make sense. I am in a bit of a quandry about A mount vs E mount - having the A7r and A7r II, I am perfectly set up for some y...

Barry, I could point out that Canon,Nikon and Pentax ( back from the FF crypt ) as the surviving SLR troika are hardly what you would consider to be at the leading edge for anything. :twisted: I am personally not that interested in GPS or WiFi or NFS etc etc and etc. Just the camera doing what I thi...

I do own the Tokina 11-16 and a Sony 16-35 which I do use wide at times, but to be honest many of my landscape work in the past was done using 28-70 or 24-85 lenses. OK the wider lenses are useful for some architectural photos and cityscapes especially in Old Towns but that is it for me. If I use my...

You do need to ask yourself about the likely sources of the rumours and the motivation behind them. Be they from self justifying fan boys to the well and truly bought and paid for "expert", and that is not to mention the mercenary click bait sites. In terms of price and added convenience t...

I happen to agree with you Barry, it's just that so much doggie-doo has been told by so many people, many of them into just plain trouble making. And things have the potential to end badly for countries on both sides of the Channel. But then again you only have to look at what was done to the people...

British / English freedom will in the medium and long term be good for most folk. The costs will probably fall more on the Reichsmark sorry Euro zone. Figures I have seen put the trade deficit with the rest of the EU at about GBP 85 billion a year and increasing at up to GBP 10 billion a year. And g...

Different preferences,different solutions. Now I don't often go over 300mm let alone 600mm so it's a matter of choice, and I can't justify upgrading to say a Series 11 70 - 400 mm A mount or any FE similar lens that may become available. The quality of the Sony 1 inch sensor is acceptable to me espe...

Well 12 in focus is better than 42 not in focus.

When I was reading David's latest article I was sort of wondering who many of the usual suspects in DPR etc would use some of his photos go to prove the lens is only sharp in the middle with absolutely useless edges.

You often don't get a good impression of the actual picture quality from internet postings. But having looked at quite a lot of images that have drawn loud complaints about lenses or cameras, most seem to be photographer error or totally unreal expectations from on the run snapshots. Dull, sometimes...