GaryW

Chasing after perfection?  To what end?  Occasionally, someone posts about how they typically print large prints for gallery showings, or whatever, but this, I would imagine, is a very atypical use...

You can mitigate these "stretched heads" somewhat with a tool like DxO or DxO Viewpoint.  It took me a while to figure out that even in the regular DxO tool, there's a function to counteract this...

Harsh! Looks like the head was coming into the photo. Sometimes you get what you get and the timing isn't right. Life can be that way. What's crap? All of the imperfections, and yet it's the...

How should I tell if the 55-210 is lacking?  I don't have a 70-300/f2.8 or a 70-200 G, nor would I even test one, as they're simply out of my price range.  I do also have a Minolta 100-300 APO,...

How do I tell that my results are mediocre? I remember years ago going to a used camera store and trying out all of their 70-210 type lenses. They were just awful, to varying degrees. Mostly just...

But the lenses are better.  Just look at some past lenses.  OK, the "nifty 50" was perfected decades ago, but the Nex comes with one of two zoom lenses.  Old zooms were pretty awful.  The 18-70...

Yeah, that first big UI update was huge and needed.  The Nex-5 felt much more usable after that.  They are still trying to keep the basic UI and just tweaking it.  The Nex-6 is better in some ways,...

I have printed up to 20x30 and 16x20 with a 10mp camera.  You'd think it'd be a stretch, but they both look really detailed.  You have to have a really quality source, though, as any flaws will be...

When I compare the two, I like the 16-50 photos better -- color and contrast seem to be better.  But both are sharp enough for me when stopped down a bit.  Neither are going to be as sharp as the...

Yeah, I really like the handling on the 5-series. I think the 5R has a "fn" button which acts like a menu for your more commonly-used items -- you have to go into the setup to configure what you...

To be sure, flip the camera upside down and take the same framing.  If the softness flips to the other side, then it's probably decentering.  Otherwise, there might be something else, like a slight...

A99? Who's "offended"?  And what does that mean?  Personally, I'd like to see the Nex system expand.  It never bothered me that Sony made FF DSLRs or even the Nex-7.  But it's clear that for now,...

Like the thread claiming it's so bad it's been recalled?  Or repetitive posts from the same people who haven't tried it, but seem determined to convince others not to? It seems to be better from...

I wanted to prefer the 18-55 over the 16-50pz, but when I actually compared the two, I found the color and contrast to be better with the 16-50, and the sharpness didn't seem much different between...

I guess whether adapted lenses are worth it depends upon the individual.  I'm kind of with you, though -- I like my AF most of the time. The adapters don't work well with "live view", if I recall...

I get all of my Fuji information on the Sony Nex forum.  ;-)   It's turned into, where's the 85mm prime?  And, where are the f2.8 zooms?

According to the Sony handbook manual, it does AF between shots (as long as PDAF is active). This should be on the CD that came with your camera, or you can download it from esupport.sony.com. I...

I went back and checked, and the number of photos on that one outing was more like 150 (with a couple of panos, which always chews up some activations).   The camera just doesn't want to turn...

Yeah, the USPS probably lost money, if you want to look at it that way. Even if they were to make a slight profit, it wasn't because that this particular photo was all that compelling, it was...

This one I don't get. All APS-C does is crop the view. What does APO have to do with it? The FF sensors tend to have slightly better color depth and DR. There's no doubt that FF has advantages...