wlad

PP is not the issue here. It's the lack of an interesting subject. The OP should get the Photographer's Eye by Michael Freeman, and start thinking critically before pressing the shutter.

its about 1 ridiculously priced N1 lens and the available alternatives please educate me how a manual focus override is worth up to $700 (since the 35mm 1.8 DX has it, and costs only $200). Manual...

no, these are larger and more expensive to produce

Well you might have your reasons to pick this system as your only photographic equipment. But investing $2500 + $900 into the Nikon 1 system ? I'm afraid that's absolutely not worth it. I would...

A $100 lens has it (18-55mm). So it's $10 at most. edit: apparently the cheapest lens to have MF override is the 35mm 1.8G for $200.

To be honest, I seriously doubt that people who only have a Nikon 1 camera will shell out $900 to get a more "convenient" portrait lens for a camera worth around $400. Those people are fine with...

which costs at most $10 to implement I would say it's a lens made for enthusiasts with deep pockets - a niche market. Not exactly aimed at pros, since no pro would really shoot an actual photo...

anything beyond that makes no sense to me, since I'm mostly a DX shooter and $500 gets me a 85mm 1.8G $900 ? Not a chance. For $450 I could get both a FT-1 and the 35mm 1.8G - if I really needed...

I could go on and say nice people, lovely portraits etc, but I would be lying (about the second part of course) The quality of light is exceptionally crappy - you have a flat overhead lighting,...

just one thing to consider - ultra wide lenses are not used to cram some distant landscape into the frame - they are used to take pictures of the foreground. The perspective of an ultra wide lens...

I assume you have read those stories on the Black Rapid site. Seriously, the idea of having a thief cutting a strap to steal a camera is absolutely ridiculous. You would notice it even if he had a...

not to mention Samsung destroyed Nokia and HTC when they entered the cellphone business..
But its the traditional camera manufacturers who should be worried, not Sony. They seem to be the dinosaurs...

I imagine the first part of focus stacking - taking the actual shots, would be pretty trivial thing to do, requiring only basic programming skills and time to study the architecture of the...

and what do you thing the 'firmware' is ? It's the operating system of the camera. You know, the thing you get the source codes for from Samsung

Wow, this goes quite against the trend of locking down features in firmware, that the traditional camera manufacturers like to exploit... nice move by Samsung

well if all they need is a small 1 megapixel picture placed somewhere on the web, then a cell phone does that job quite well. But these people were never the consumers of DSLRs. They used P&S before.

The thing is that both RAW processors work with the same data. The only thing that ADL in CNX does, is a kind of an automated shadow/highlight recovery. It's not some magical process available in...

I really doubt that. I've bought my 2 EN-EL15s almost 3 years ago and after 14k pictures and a couple of hours of recorded video footage, my D7000 still shows battery age "0" - new. And they still...

Actually I have ADL set to normal almost all the time, and LR4 is still able to pull more information from shadows/highlights than CNX2. What poor results do you have in mind ?

as far as I know, in-camera ADL affects the actual exposure - so you have the exact same RAW data available whether you open the NEF in LR4, or CNX. The ADL settings in CNX seem to adjust only the...