Bryan Biggers

I'm guessing that the overheating idea is correct, but I suspect that it is not entirely because of the sensor design but because of the new GX7 IBIS system. This is Panasonic's first IBIS, and...

I'm thinking that they were trying to reduce the amount that the viewfinder has to stick out on the back of the camera by sneaking the eye relief distance down a little bit. My first thought on...

I have both the VF-2 and the VF-4 and the OMD viewfinder.  I will go out on a limb and say that  the VF-4 is not a no brainer upgrade over the VF-2, depending on what you are doing with it. 1) The...

" We've seen corner-mounted EVFs before, but this is the first built-in unit that articulates upwards, allowing for more flexible shooting."

No it isn't the Minolta D7 had a tilting viewfinder...

Yeah, I finally broke my TX5, unfortunately. The new cameras are just horrible image quality compared to that camera. I'd like to buy another Sony to replace it, but the new cameras are horrible,...

My battery ran down and I had to change it.

f/2.8 is "slow"?

The E-M5 can do 30 minutes in bulb, and I believe that the E-PL5 can as well. I don't have an E-PL5, but look for a "bulb timer" setting and see if you don't have that set to 8 minutes. Set it to...

Interesting, because I bought it to complement my OMD also. The OMD is superior in every way but size; and a lot of times I just don't want to take it.  I'm also using an Oly TG-1 as a "it might...

Yes, I also broke down and bought one from Amazon at the 289 price, and it came today, it is brand new. The battery is still charging so I have not tried it yet.

I think that the sensor has two parts, 1) an IR LED beam and 2) an IR detector. When your face gets close enough, an amount of IR over a threshold bounces off your face back into the detector and...

I still have my D7i, and it is operational, but I don't use it any more these days. Almost seems like using the D7 was more fun back then, now digital cameras are common.

I'm talking about the effects that require a lot of in camera processing, such as the panorama and HDR modes. In the TG-1 they are restricted to smaller image sizes, and take a long time to...

Actually, in general, legacy lenses show fewer aberrations on M/43 because the smaller sensor is cropping to more of the  "sweet spot" in the middle of the image field and discarding the edges...

On the TG-1, the processed effects are restricted to lower 5 mega pixel sizes and the processing is extremely slow. Is this still the case for the TG-2?

Heh, no, I didn't make it up, the number of previews that you can get with each ISO is shown in the menu on the camera under "live bulb" and "live time" in the gear "E" menu. Specifically, it...

How many live time previews you get depends on two things, 1) what you have set in gear menu "E" Live Bulb (assuming that you are using Blub), and 2) The ISO used.The ISO used determines how many...

Just for fun I tried a remote release that I use with my Olympus OMD and it does not work on the TG-1. Not surprised, but I thought I would just confirm.

Yes, plus full size images instead of 5Mp. Faster CPUs aren't always hotter, could be a smaller chip mask or a better dedicated image CPU for example, but yeah, I suppose that it is unlikely.  Sony...

A couple things that they could improve would be the special in camera modes such as HDR and panorama.  In the TG-1 they are slow, and work only at reduced size. If they used a faster processor...