Dave Oddie

The only reasons to update this lens is to go SSM for video (not focus speed as it is fast enough already) and to weather seal it. If you don't need either of those things there is no reason to...

Yes. Some people even shoot in B&W mode using RAW + JPEG as it makes the focus peaking easier to see on the B&W viewfinder image. The JPEG comes out B&W but the RAW is just RAW so you get a...

I agree. I didn't mean I preferred the articulated screen over the viewfinder but rather I understood the preference for a camera that had an articulated screen rather than one that didn't. I...

Well the o/p is making are these issues a problem so I don't think yuor reply is very helpful. So to the o/p. AF never seems a problem to me. It just works and is very accurate. Noise. ...

I can fully understand the big preference for an articulated screen. It amazes me any new high end camera that does live view of any kind doesn't have an articulated screen to make the most it.

That is not really a valid argument. The D7000 and A77 are not really comparable. The A77 is a higher specified machine so sure you can switch systems and pay less than upgrading IF you decide to...

Sony A77 review:

"However, the somewhat mushy JPEG image quality, high noise levels and slightly laggy operation stop the A77 from getting a gold award. "

Silver award.

EOS 5 D MkIII...

I have read the Tamron has a weird focusing issue whereby the plane of focus differs between the centre and edges. This isn't just sharpness fall off to the edges but the fact you can focus the...

You should be able to adjust for that lens. How are you attempting to do it exactly?

tkbslc I agree with you. The fact not just Pentax came out with a 50mm lens for aps-c cameras doesn't mean it is right. Sony brought one out some time ago and I said that was a missed opportunity...

It's marketing decision of all the camera makers. A Canon 60D does not have it but a 7D does. I have not looked to chexk but I reckon the A77 is maybe the cheapest aps-c camera with MF adjust. ...

I think your understanding is correct but the original question is to do with where the focus peaking or magnified manual modes get their data from to confirm focus when focusing manually. Is it...

I agree. They need to stop covering the same ground and release plug the gaps in th eline up.

They can give up on SAM as well for me. What a backward step that was given it does not allow...

I agree. They need to stop covering the same ground and plug the gaps in the line up.

They can give up on SAM as well for me. What a backward step that was given it does not allow Dynamic Manual...

Where is that the case? Never heard that before.

The fact you spent half an hour with the A77 isn't enough. It is a camera that grows on you over time and I mean that with respect to the EVF as well as its general handling. That said many...

After posing here I finally found the Corel forum and so I posed the question there. The answer was interesting and suggests RAW Noise and NN are for different things. Under RAW noise the RAW...

Sony certainly could do with adding a few lenses to range but I completely disagree with the above. The last thing I want to see in a Sony lens is optical stabilisation. IBIS works fine with...

You can use them with either the in-lens OS switched off or the in-camera OS switched off. Not both switched on at the same time. Sigma make OS lenses in Sony mount but Tamron make non-OS...

My system doesn't have an i7 or i5 but a previous generation socket 775 3.0ghz processor and fast (and overclocked) DDR2 ram. Other image editing programs zip along and generally the PC is very...