Antone

No, really. You have an amazing ability to bait people with your remarkable rhetorical skills. This is  like the third or fourth thread you've started with such inflammatory comments that has led...

The issue is your use of inflammatory rhetoric in all these threads you have started. We know Sigma cameras aren't perfect but we also know they are capable of producing superb images. Perhaps if...

Image degradation and vignetting, too. I have a 9 stop ND but it cuts so much light that the 30 second limitation of the DPx Merrills obviates its use. It pretty much is only for my XE-1 since it...

Very cool. I use ND quite a bit but mostly for water or cloud movement. Btw - ND8 is only 3 stops. --Tony-S

I won't be giving up my Canon FD 300mm f/4L anytime soon... X-E1 with Canon FD 300mm f/4L @ f/4.

My Zeiss ZE 35mm f/2 and 50mm f/2 makro planar produce superb bokeh.

Not a Mac thing. Not an issue with any of my three of my Macs.

Thanks for the info, Tom. I was thinking about taking the X-E1 and a Canon A-1 film camera with Provia. I have the 18-55 and 14mm but was also planning to take FD 24mm, 50mm and 135mm lenses with...

The HD4000 will concurrently drive 27" and 24" displays at native resolutions, so the Retina is nothing special.

It sounds like quite a lens. Super-fast autofocus even in difficult lighting and very well sealed from dust. I'm curious to know how the 1.4x TC mechanism works. A flip of a switch so it must...

Tom, any problems with the authorities and your camera? I'm heading to Beijing this summer and am a bit apprehensive about this issue. --Tony-S

My i7 Mac Mini with Intel's integrated HD4000 gpu renders my Canon 5Dii raw files in real-time with Aperture. Same for my 16-bit TIFFs from my DP1 Merrill and almost real-time with my 400 MB 4x5"...

The weakest  link in any computer today is the spinning hard drive. I'd rather have an i5 with an SSD than an i7 with a spinning hard drive. This is why Apple's Fusion drive is so appealing - it's...

I understand all that, but until we know how the two lenses compares it's tough to say how good or bad it is. It's certainly not a lens for the great majority of users, but it's also certain that...

My 2.6 gHz i7 Mac Mini with a Fusion drive works fine. The biggest limitation of SPP is that it is cpu-bound; it makes no use of the gpu.

Has a direct comparison between the two lenses been published?

Any intervolameter that works with Canon's single-plug cameras (others, such as the 5Dii, require a 3-pin connector) will work. The key is to identify how many exposures it can do. The one I have...

My DP1Merrill out resolves my 5Dii with a Zeiss 28mm f/2.8.

No interest in this Fuji lens. I'm sticking with my FD 80-200mm f/4L.

The principal reasons I won't buy the 18mm is because it's not that great, and because have the DP1 Merrill.