dougjgreen1

It looks to me that Nikon has come out with a very nice $600 camera, and then priced it at $1100 to prevent folks from buying it. $440 for the optical viewfinder is even more ludicrous - You can...

But for $1100, it's really kind of silly For $1100, you can get a good Micro 4/3 body like either the Olympus EP3 or Panasonic G5 with 2 excellent prime lenses and one of the kit zooms. Or, one...

But I paid something like $35 for it

but I never went really long with the T-Con, as I don't think that was this camera's strong suit. What it DOES do well, is work deliberately with elaborate flash setups.  Which I would get on the...

Particularly the LCD is much improved. And for little more again, you can get a Panasonic GX1, with better controls and a better imager.

I just picked up a Panasonic G5 body, which, unlike my Olympus E-PL2, doesn't have IBIS.  So that means I need to get a telephoto that does.  I don't need huge range, so something that tops out at...

I was there a few weeks ago - I couldn't believe how much amazing film gear they have for sale - especially medium format stuff.  It was like a museum of Photography in the latter part of the 20th...

$270 winning bid plus $19 shipping from a well regarded, knowledgeable seller on ebay. IMHO He made the mistake of closing his auction at 11:30 PM Pacific Time on a weekday night, and as a result,...

Personally, I think fisheyes are gimmicky lenses that are way over-used.  And, since they have a huge field of view, they tend to grab huge swaths of sky, which tends to fool the meter. To me,...

You'd probably find that you can get a G5 with kit lens for under $500, and a G3 or GX1 for under $400. BTW, if you shop carefully, you can also get an Oly E-PL2 kit for under $200, (I just paid...

I would contend that several Tamron manual focus lenses of their SP series from the 1980s were in fact Pro Grade.  But most of their stuff nowadays is not. I'll stack up my 90mm f2.5 Tamron SP...

I live in noirthern San Diego (near Rancho Bernardo) - and I get to the desert often - although probably not from Mid June to Mid September. as it's too darn hot in the summer.  I was just there...

I did not know that.  Thanks.  Makes me less concerned about using either the Panny 7-14 or 14mm pancake lens, both of which I'm considering buying.

I've used them both, but certainly the split prism far more extensively - the split prism is FAR easier to use WHILE composing the picture, with any sort of moving subject matter.  I've used manual...

The Panasonic bodies have software that, when processing JPEGs, corrects for linear distortion and for purple fringing that their lenses exhibit.  When you use these lenses on the Olympus Micro 4/3...

You can't use focus peaking to track focus while framing on a moving subject.  It's relatively easy to do this with an optical reflex viewfinder and proper focusing screen.  That's the bottom line.

It only needs ANY edge at all.  The Split prism is on a 45 degree angle, but even if it weren't,  you can always find an edge to put in the focusing circle. Moving back and forth between...

Any method that forces you to go back and forth between magnified viewing for focusing, and non-magnified viewing for framing, is fundamentally inferior to using a reflex finder where you can focus...

Since you've never even used a 4/3 camera with the proper focusing screen installed to do this. - so you don't even know how much that improves the experience and of using a 4/3 DSLR with Manual...