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No, I clutched a Minox spy camera in my chubby hands...

Samyang/ Rokinon/ Bower/ Vivitar (all the same lenses, made by Samyang Co in Korea) has a bunch of inexpensive full frame manual focus manual aperture lenses with good to excellent optics and good...

If you plan on doing low-light landscapes, you should have a decent tripod, head, and QR system. I would go for an Arca-Swiss compatible QR system. Originally I poo-poohed the L bracket idea...

I have the 60D, and my walk-around lens is the EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 with IS. Really excellent image quality, excellent 4 stop image stabilization, versatile range - optically this is an L quality...

I am a birder. I want plenty of pixels on my tiny subjects. Give me the same 18 MP count, just make them better pixels.

I have seen lots of good work done with its mate the 11-16mm f/2.8, but am less familiar with the 12-24mm Tokina. Both the 12-24 and the 11-16 lenses are APS-C. I chose the Sigma 8-16mm f/variable...

I consider myself both a photographer and a pixel peeper. The pixel peeping is a part of knowing your tools and improving your technique. You may or may not need to have a certain technical quality...

If the weather is good and there's no blowing dust or grit, take the protective filter off for best IQ in flare prone shots. I don't typically use protective filters in good weather/ no wind-borne...

Depending on your sport, the difference between 5 and 8 fps may or may not be important. The buffer size is definitely important for sports shooting. I don't know what the buffer size is for the...

Who's going to hire one of these clueless folks? I bet that woman who forgot (!!!) her SD card really p-o'ed the customer. Don't potential clients still flip through (click through) portfolios?...

Alternative would be to buy a long thin stuff sack or swipe one off a tent lying around the house. Strap said stuff sack to the outside of the bag. I have considered a quiver, available at your...

I can't seem to find the 0.75 kg tripod in the Feisol list. I see some 1.12 to 1.3 kg tripods, though. For a full frame SLR with up to 200mm lens, I would go for one of the Tournament level tripods...

I suspect that the 7D2 will be very similar in form to the 7D, and will have weather sealing, etc. The main market for the 7D2 will be the same market as for the 7D, birders and sports shooters. I...

No question, this lens has excellent image quality. It is a bargain.

Happy new anus?  Now that has to be one of the better "uh, not exactly" examples of Spanish as written by non-Spanish speaker. Unless said non-Spanish speaker is a surgeon who just fixed the guy's...

Monsieur FoveonForever, your written English beats my written French. There is something unique about Foveon, I agree. I enjoyed monochrome film shooting in the 1960s and 1970s, and now have come...

Eiffel Tower? Who's the stick-figure dude in the ground in photo #2?

Time to hit the gym! Yes, there are plenty of people who can take BIF photos handheld with the 500 and 600mm lenses. Yes, you might like to park it on a monopod or tripod when staking out a nest....

The Canon EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS is a superb lens, the optical equal of L lenses for FF. Plus, this is a very useful FL range, equivalent to 24-135mm on FF. So far as I can tell from reviews of...