Tone Row

Took the words right out of my mouth. I think film will remain as a niche within professional photography and will cater to those who are willing to pay a premium for a product that to them will...

I kept both because there is room for both of them. While the SEL35 is the more versatile of the two because its wider aperture and OSS gives you more leeway when the light is less than optimal,...

I've never felt the desire to learn flash photography and I plan to use no faster than 400 speed film, so this experiment will be very much a daytime thing only. What I haven't decided yet is...

Thanks for that insightful tweet.

Thankfully I live in a large city with a number of choices left for 135 development if you're not too picky and 1 pro-level shop that still does 120, 135, 220 and 4x5 daily.

I hate to put it this way and maybe you already know this and still plan to move forward, but you're not going to be happy with what you get either on the open market or trade in for a 5N. The NEXs...

I've been experiencing an itch to slow down and do some film photography and wanted to keep it inside the family, so I went out and picked up a Dynax/Maxxum 5 which was one of Minolta's last and...

Who cares about bodies, if you haven't figured out that photographic gear is all about the lenses then you should learn. The thing is, names change and the technology changes along with it, but as...

I was searching the Konica Minolta forum recently on film bodies and ran across a number of sky is falling posts regarding the A-mount going all the way back to 2003, a full decade older than your...

I think it would be neat and sure, they own the name, but didn't the technology as well as the people responsible for the Maxxum line all go to Sony? Wouldn't this be more or less like Cosina...

Who said anything about shadows? I didn't, we were talking about blown highlights. I own an A77 myself as well as a NEX-6, and when the OLED in each is showing a blown out highlight it's guaranteed...

No question, and it's easy to explain because the human eye has a far greater dynamic range than an OLED viewer. On the other hand, a sensor has a similar dynamic range to an OLED VF, and if the...

Why? They are obviously testing SNR and you don't need a lens for that. All you need is light at a certain intensity captured at a certain ISO and then you count up the pixels that didn't capture...

Why is it physically impossible? All a lens does is focus the light into something humans can make out. Again, with your last statement that "giving light to sensors in proportion to their size",...

See my last quote. The DxOMark low light ISO ratings are independent of the lens, so you have to come up with something better to prove them wrong.

Wait, I take that back, I just looked at the DxOMark list again and remembered/saw that the ratings are based on the sensor only and are independent of lenses, so you're theory that it has to do...

Well, OK, but if full frame sensors are able to use larger lenses, and larger lenses allow more light to be collected, then ipso facto larger sensors do indeed have an advantage. Am I missing...

Then why are the top 22 cameras in DxOMark's low light ISO performance ratings full frame or larger sensors? If memory serves, I believe that in the history of digital cameras only about 25 or so...

I'm a big fan of the SEL20 and am really trying to learn this focal length because It's not a very natural length for me. I love the chameleon-like nature of ~28mm photography and how it can be...