RedFox88

The lens opens to the aperture that the camea tells it to.  Nothing to "learn".

You would be better off contacting a local camera store instead.  They essentially are brand reps.  Look in your local phone book.

A the size posted, I see no defects in the image, but it has extreme contrast.

Sounds like you are referring to pattern noise.  Bands or banding are generally circular in nature.

I'm not sure what you're complaining about.  We have standard universal image formats mainly being JPG.  If you were to poll all dSLR users, I think the percentage that use RAW file format most of...

Why are you referring to lenses instead of the camera?  Lenses has nothing to do with exposure themselves nor how much detail is recorded in the shadows.  Lenses perform how the camera is set, and...

Bull.  I have yet to see a phone photo make me say 'wow".  The reason to buy a real camera?  Even a P&S?  Optical zoom.  Sure samsung has a new phone with optical zoom but it's bigger and a short...

This is capitalism.  Buy out your competitors and do what you like after that.  Adobe has now cut out the middle salesman and gets all the money.  However, this is a disturbing trend since our...

Huh?!

Lenses are natively "wide open" until the shutter is opened and the image is recorded.  When the aperture blades close to the aperture selected, you then see the image in the actual DOF that will...

I could not agree less! The future of image format for photography is smaller, not larger.  Photography format has been shrinking since its inception.  We've gone from large format to medium format...

Generally any gains made in RAW converters or your own sikill will be minimal and only visible at 100% screen views. Most re-dos won't take an image from fair to wow.  Just from Good to good+. ...

For wet leaves, you really have to get in closers and get ontop of them.  Shooting at this angle does not make for anything special.  And a P&S camera often does better for more DOF and the ability...

This statement is not correct.  Only Canon's EF-S lenses will not mount on 35mm aka "full frame" SLRs.  Tamron's digital lenses and Sigma's DC lenses will indeed mount on 35mm/full frame though...

You label this a lighthouse photo, yet the lighthouse appears very small in this image.  Hmm.  The biggest feature is a rock besides the water.

The part about not being quite as big as aps-c which isn't true since no one will notice 95% of the height size and it's just cropped so it is essentially aps-c sized for image quality.

You mean wider aperture, right?  Not smaller for better low light!

I don't see a question asked or item for discussion, but this seems more like a blog post.  So why did you post this here?  I'm puzzled.

There is no point in f/16 on an 1/1.7" image sensor.  The small image sensor and its related short focal lengths have large depth of field built into the photos most of the time.  I would not even...

Actually the G1 X has an image sensor that is 95% of the height of an aps-c image sensor, but has the sides cropped off to 3:4 instead of 2:3.  So it is a lot bigger than P&S cameras.  Tell the...