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Congrats on the new lens, Vidgamer. There is also the Sigma 19mm to consider in this range so we are spoilt for wide primes :) . At that price it would be a must buy, I agree. Yep, a lot of people have gotten the Sigma 19, which normally is much cheaper. In this case, the Sony was a better deal, bu...

Hey guys, check out my latest f-stop calculator! I made it into an offline app for the phone -- you can set it onto your home-page and it looks just like a built-in app! It'll work on your desktop computer's browser just as well. http://www.computingbits.com/photography/fstopOffline/ Anyway, let me ...

Recently, an active poster on DPR, who often managed to ruffle feathers, made a big announcement about leaving. I think what bothers some people is that everything gets debated and picked-upon. Many of us have strong opinions. If no one objected, there wouldn't be much traffic. And Barry, I know you...

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5473/14374804952_e57cc27961_c.jpg DSC00083_stitch by avidgamefan , on Flickr This was among my latest panoramas, stitched. Unfortunately, they had forest fires making the haze worse than usual. I like it fine, haze and all, except for something weird is going on with ...

It doesn't seem like this lens has gotten favorable reviews, but in my tests, I find it better than the kit lenses, particularly at wider apertures and towards the edges, as you'd expect. Seems worth using to me, even if it's not the CZ 24. https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3840/14372879691_765131d05a_...

BestBuy is selling the 20mm lens for $159 or thereabouts. It's crazy! I couldn't resist and got mine. Word on DPR is that you have to go to your local store and if they don't have one in stock they should be able to order it. I wonder if they are clearing stock? Some were speculating that perhaps th...

The Tamrac bag is only heavy if you load it up. Nobody makes you try to fit every lens you own in one bag for every task. I could shove the A57 and 17-50mm in a holster bag and put my MAS belt on with just the beercan on it. Not that heavy at all covers quite a range and I'm ok in low light too. Or...

Depends what you are doing. It's impossible to know what everyone's needs are. Who said that we need to know what everyone's needs are? Some of us are interested in the smaller cameras because they're smaller and lighter. Whether or not this is a large group doesn't matter -- it's enough to justify...

... I am surprised how similar this is to the early Nex 3 and 5 in general styling. I wonder if the biggest influence will be the acceptance of a large touch screen interface with less physical controls. (Interesting that both sites above refer to this being what a camera from Apple would be like :...

I can only go on what I've seen and a lot of M mount users got pretty worked up about shoving some nice glass on a much cheaper than Lecia body. That go kinda ripped up when the results came in, esp with wider angle lenses. It seems the Leica bodies have much better optimised offset micro lenses (t...

Yes results count and so does offset micro lenses done properly on a full frame sensor. From what I've seen so far you're in for a much harder time on a full frame ILC than you are a DSLR, those corners really suffer...and distortion is a serious issue on some lens design. Do the corners really suf...

I'm not seeing a shortage of mirrorless models for people to look at. Nobody can really complain about that. A few months ago, there were a lot of complaints on DPR about the newer A7 models -- maybe Sony would no longer make the Nex-5 series or even the 6 or 7 series cameras with their smaller, ra...

Thanks guys! It seems to me that there should have been plenty of opportunities for good framing, but let's just say that I went through a lot of photos to pick out these two. ;-) Well, I am only partially kidding. I have a lot of photos that turned out well, but many are touristy and probably not o...

I happened to be in D.C. in time for the cherry blossoms to arrive! These two photos were taken with the lowly 16-50, which makes a great travel lens. https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7419/13877111584_77b71144d2_b_d.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/avidgamefan/13877111584/sizes/l https://farm8.static...

My thought is kind of the opposite of Barry's -- I'm afraid that because DSLRs sell well in the US and Europe, the manufacturers will concentrate on those models and not provide smaller ILC cameras that I would prefer. It's been a long wait for a high-quality but compact camera, and I don't want to ...