LincolnB

Yes.

That's essentially what camera companies are saying with their pricing. You can buy the latest and greatest Canon Rebel T5i for $750 or you can buy a T3 for $340. You can buy an Olympus E-P5 for...

Amazon has the E-P2 body for sale for $210. Ebay is full of sales of the kit lens for around $80. If you can't find a lens for a micro four thirds camera for less than $100 then you're not looking...

These were taken with my $299 DMC-G3 with kit lens: DMC-G3 and a $50 lens: DMC-G3 and a $30 lens: So are you going to buy one? The GX1 for example is on sale now for less than $250. The GF2 is...

My point is that one should hardly ever use the on-camera flash pointed directly at the subject. Bounce it or get it off camera. Direct flash mounted on top of the camera almost always looks like...

Sometimes...

Well, yes. These all used off-camera flash:

If you're lucky enough to avoid red-eye you're still left with that direct flash look. Which is usually horrid. Yes, I too carry triggers with me if I'm bringing a flash. I just about never use...

The article says right near the top, "First I noticed the glass is totally different. This is not just the E-mount version in a different shell. The optics are new." Did you read the article? or...

Nah, I think he did well to bounce it off the pillar. Her lighting has a nice off-camera diffuse look and not that red-eye direct-flash look.

You could have killed much of the ambient light of the figurine with a faster shutter speed. This wouldn't have affected the flash but would have reduced the ambient. Also, at f/3.7 it looks a...

This is a lot better. You could be even better simply by getting the subject further away from the background. That will blur out and even out the background. If you have a small background you can...

I believe so.   If you don't mind mixed light then it doesn't matter   Probably. You can get a cheap manual flash for around $40-$70 that will give you a lot more control and probably more light...

That's not a big problem. That's just a matter of selecting the correct white balance. I've used these lights a lot. Here are pros & cons I've found. Pros: Cheap, cheap, cheap Fairly bright (for...

Most of it but not all of it. The back end of the food is OOF. That's the point. I could have taken this at f/8 or f/11 and gotten it all. I don't think the shot would have looked as good.It's like...

My initial reaction is that shot doesn't have a background that justifies a deeper DOF. The background is simply uninteresting. f/11 merely brings out the most uninteresting part of the shot. But...

Rumor has it that this lens was produced in larger numbers than just about any other SLR lens in the world. It has three rings - a focus ring next to the body, then the aperture ring in the middle,...

I think you should consider the Voigtlander 40mm 1.4 in "M" mount. An "M" adapter is around $20 and only adds about 8mm to the length of the lens.