Fred Briggs

I once pre-ordered a Canon 70-200 f/4 from Amazon UK when they temporarily advertised it at a very low price. Took four or so months to get it, during which time the price went up quite a bit,...

There are plenty of more appropriate subjects in this collection for assessing bokeh other than the types of shot I mentioned - for example the flower pictures and the portraits. Very few of the...

As a Panasonic owner I'm a bit disapponted that most of the samples are taken on the Olympus - maybe Panasonic are too! Also the choice of aperture seems to be rather inappropriate in quite a few...

Yes I bought my 14-42 from them with no problems - see: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1041&message=41393457 Fred

I recently bought one of these new on eBay (UK). The company selling them stated they were split from GF3 kits. I got it to use with the G3 I bought with the recent £50 cashback deal as I...

This would be an interesting development at the full frame level - as far as I know it has only been used in compact camera sensors before. This could make the job of the microlenses a bit easier...

Actually back in the days of analogue TV signals the colour interference patterns had a slightly different cause as the whole broadcast chain was analogue, including the sensors in the cameras, so...

My comment was in the context of the OP's tripod based tests using MLU (mirror lockup) and shutter delay settings. This is hardly a spontaneous shooting arrangement, and I was merely suggesting...

I may be missing something here, but it seems the situation you are describing and testing for is an ideal candidate for using live view mode. Now I'm moving from Canon to Nikon, so maybe I'm...

Very neat piece of kit but I would have doubts about the effectiveness. A buit-in release normally uses an electrical signal to trigger the shutter so no mechanical force is involved and hence no...

Very neat piece of kit but I would have doubts about the effectiveness. Buit-in releases, at least modern ones, normally use an electrical signal to trigger the shutter so no mechanical force is...

Hi, I've just gone through the same decision making process, though with respect to buying new - and taking advantage of current cashback and free three year warranty deals. Ordered DMC-G3...

If you are reasonably good at estimating distances then use a smartphone app to get the hyperfocal distance and then initially focus on something approximately at that distance from you. Since...

Yes - good point. Thanks - and yes I will, but the way things are looking it will probably be old news by the time I am in a position to post samples! Fred

Hi, Unfortunately as I understand it there is no way to adapt Canon lenses to Nikon bodies - at least not with a simple mechanical mount adapter. The problem is that the Canon EF mount has...

I agree with you about timing being key, and that having spare resolution is very useful with sports where you can't necessarily get close enough, and also where there is not time to frame every...

Thanks for the samples Sophie. I notice that the first one shot at 1/800th is sharp viewed at 100% whereas the second shot at 1/250th isn't. This seems to bear out the advice about the camera...

I am sure the cross hatch type pattern is from the screen printing process commonly used on lots of items. I used to take pictures of containers with printed labels when focus testing/focus...

I think the 5D3 is about £700 too expensive, so I won't be buying. May go to Nikon instead. Fred

Been looking at the D800 samples using the ACR 6.7 Beta and have noticed that the infamous red colour fabric swatch is very adversely affected by the colour NR setting which defaults to 25 - at...