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I am very impressed. Somehow I have been skipping Industar as some cheap lenses to avoid. Looks like I was much mistaken. I have several Industar lenses in Leica Thread Mount that came on Soviet rangefinder cameras, purchased very inexpensively on e-Bay about 6-7 years ago. My experience was that s...

Is there anyone here worrying about the financial status about Sony? Repeatedly heard from my friends using Nikon/Canon discouraging me for further investment.... :( :( Sony has very deep pockets compared with Nikon. You would have to inspect Sony's annual corporate reports very closely to even fin...

One of my local camera stores have a Konica Minolta AF 17-35 F2.8-4 D (old stock) for AUD$449.00,(around US$300) I've seen some US online store selling it for US$489.00 , online review seem OK, does anyone here have this lens? I purchased one of these about 6-7 weeks ago (New Old Stock) at a very a...

David, In an earlier message you mentioned that you had heard that the Nikon 24-120mm was not a good lens. On the chance that you were referring to another source, I'll mention the comments about that lens made by Mike Johnson on his web site, The Online Photographer , on 28 November. Take a look at...

RawShooter died eventually precisely because of the DNG issue. Although it supported DNG files, when the Sony ARW format replaced the Minolta format, then, although you could convert the Sony files to DNG, RawShooter could not read them. I know, I tried myself. It is not really of consequence to th...