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The top and bottom plates of the camera are cold to the touch.
The top plate of the pop up flash is not cold to the touch. It is a different material to the rest of the plate.
Please hold the...

In regards to this cameras handling, I think it feels like a dog made out of bricks.
The camera is weighted horribly towards the opposite side to the grip, seemingly beyond the placement of the...

So true on those points! For me, having started out shooting on digital, then moving on to film, I shoot it because the results are much more immediately acceptable than output from a digital...

Malyons, I would suggest you give your students a heads up on books such as The Camera, The Print, and The Negative, by Ansell Adams. The first one in particular giving one much more grounded and...

http://www.dpreview.com/galleries/1832778312/photos/2471208/scan810-custom

Here is a scan from a glass plate negative that was shot in Yorkshire England circa 1910.
Personally I think it's a very...

Malyons, camera movements and lens design are first year photography subjects. For a high school photography teacher to consider such a trivial article a learning option is quite a frightening...

Increasing DOF has never been the point of TS lenses, and they are just as good at it as other lenses are. Perspective correction and plane of focus adjustment is what they are technically made...

This 'unique' approach has been in use by photographers for over 100 years.

Does anyone know what kind of deposit is required? I would imagine it's at the full price of the camera in case the 'borrower' does not come back.
Why cannot one just find a retailer with a good...

A) Are you implying that the DPReview test is innacuate?
B) Find me another review/preview with test charts and not ambient light testing.
I am willing to admit that the wide aperture test above...

First of all Trollshavethebestcandy, this is not a revolutionary product and is certainly not based on new technology (your consumer camera addition means nothing).
Secondly people used to get...

Except that at widest aperture the resulting image becomes darker. Read the preview. What is the point of taking a f/1.4 lens to f/1.0 if its darker? Plus chromabs are increased and contrast is...

This is what it's boils down to. People want to pay for cheap crap, they get cheap crap.

You're doing it all wrong. You seem to be fixated on the body when it is the lens that brings in most of the 'quality'.Buy the cheapest second hand full frame camera you can buy (Original Canon 5D)...

Actually, many zoom lenses in the 70's and 80's were almost as good as, or as good as their prime counterparts, and initially more expensive due to their more complex construction.Over the years...

I don't know what sorry excuse for prime kit lenses of the era you have been using, but the $50 Minolta MD's I've been picking up are better than anything modern with an AF motor in it, let alone...

Canon and Nikon have a well established 'system' surrounding their cameras that has been around for 30 years. That's why Dslrs from these 2 companies are still outselling mirrorless cameras.Only a...

Can DPreview please state what is actually different about the products compared to ones from several years ago? What has changed in the mean time? Apart from the sleeker space saving design, which...

Regarding price point:
People pointed out the high price of the Fuji X100 when that came out as well, and it led to a success for them.
I think there are plenty of people who are more than willing...