ljfinger

It's true (and I said that above), but I didn't do too bad with a zoom, and it sure beat trying to "zoom with my feet" with my 85mm...

VERY ineffective on moon shots. -- Lee Jay (see profile for equipment)

I thought you were going to say, "because you don't live in Aspen, where everything and everyone is beautiful". ;-) -- Lee Jay (see profile for equipment)

However, I have four primes and three zooms. There are, in my opinion, two very good reasons to get prime lenses: - They are available in focal lengths that zooms don't cover (I have a 15mm...

They don't even have an option to display it to the public. The only choices are hidden or displayed to other registered DPReview users. "For an additional level of privacy you can also hide...

There's not a thing wrong with that image. I posted a comparison with what I think are the same sensors as in the D10 and D20, taken at 1 stop different...

Remember the cleaner image is the higher ISO image. -- Lee Jay (see profile for equipment)

Let me tell you why I'm less than convinced of that - low-light. Once you get down a ways (and 10 meters is plenty for this), you start to need strobes pretty badly unless you like dark blue...

Doubt it - the 17-55/2.8 is quite excellent optically. -- Lee Jay (see profile for equipment)

Sort of. I bought my Elph 500HS partly because it's f/2 at the wide end. But it's f/5.9 at the long end which is a drag. But when I really need aperture, I shoot with my 5D and 35/1.4L or...

I'm talking about the lens test system, not the camera test system. I don't want to know about either the camera or the lens, but about the testing process. -- Lee Jay (see profile for...

I would never buy a D10. I will buy a D20. The lens bulge on the D10 is a killer for pocketability, and that's one way in which I plan to use it. -- Lee Jay (see profile for equipment)

Here's what you need to do, in my view. Pick two Nikon lenses - a super-sharp prime and a soft-ish zoom that overlap in focal length. Shoot lens test charts with them both at the same focal...

The reason I think you could have discontinued the entirety of the 20-28 2.8 primes are: 16-35/2.8 24-70/2.8 17-55/2.8 IS 17-40/4 24-105/4 IS With so many options, that many people...

It's always difficult to know what is real texture and what it noise. The right way to do this (and I didn't do it either) is to shoot a reference shot with a good camera at a low ISO (I'll do...

You've got to be kidding. Look at the arrows. http://photos.imageevent.com/sipphoto/samplepictures/SD960IS%20versus%20Elph500HS%20annotated.jpg -- Lee Jay (see profile for equipment)

Look more carefully - much of the real wood grain shown in the right image is a blurry mess in the left image, and much of the "texture" in the left image is actually noise. -- Lee Jay (see...

In which case I don't need a fast lens. Right, but in such cases where subject blur is a big problem, I tend to use my 35/1.4L or 85/1.8. But what? The 17-55 has it. The new Tamron has...

At 24mm, it's not as hard as you think. Heck, I'm not that steady. -- Lee Jay (see profile for equipment)

I've shot with IS on my 24-105 at as slow at 1-second handheld. I can consistently shoot at 1/8th at 70mm. If I'm shooting at 1/8th with IS at ISO 1600, you might need 1/60th at ISO 12,800...