Dré de Man

Comparing lens quality of different brands based on a couple of samples with many variables like camera's, settings, lighting, models and scenes etc. doesn't make much sense, especially if you're...

Hi Jim, I hoped you would do before I'll get the time... But if not I'll do it next time I have a Z 7, maybe I can even do it when I bring the 500mm f/5.6 PF - which I'm testing now -  back next week.

This is exactly the problem with testing. The first thing you want to do is show differences, so you make a setup that’s good at that. Jim certainly succeeded here. So he made his point: There is ...

Exactly, you can use the flash (e.g. SB-910, SB-5000) as AF illuminator solely, so without flashing at all. It's in the flash menu.

The iMac has exactly the same gamut: https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3939770
, so DCI-P3 as well.

Yes, an iMac is a completely different animal, like the Dodo was. An iMac is a bad choice compared to a Surface Studio. A Surface Studio is unique because the monitor has a 2 : 3 aspect ratio,...

Yes. The Noctilux is thanks to the very small Leica M mount atrocious at the corners and margins until almost f/8, just look at the MTF Leica provides. Same is true for the other f/0.95-lenses. And...

Nikon probably didn't want to compromise and use a relatively light focusing group. It's more meant as a showcase, to show what you can do with the new mount, than for actual use by the masses....

There is much more leakage from from Canon to Sony than from Nikon to Sony (Sony showed those data to journalists, sorry Sony). So you can expect that the moment Nikon has a mirrorless system as ...

Hi Bob, About the light loss; O yes of course, stupid. It was 2.00 AM and I was a bit distracted by a girl. But I remembered having seen something like 0.33 stop, but maybe it was 0.5. The D810 ...

You mean 1/3 stop? That's what I meant at any case. And ok, it depends on what you call a generation. Is D800-D810 one generation? And who knows, maybe the new mirrorless sensor also has lower ...

Two generations? If the mirror absorbs 33%, light loss would almost be neglectable. The question is more, how will Nikon compensate for the light loss in the AF unit in the adapter. If you lose 2 ...

200-500mm f/5.6 @ Nürnburgring, (c) Dré de Man, first used in Digifotopro. Hi Bob, Firstly: Let's call the system Z for now. Then: that you agree with the idea that we should set the ...

Why are you shouting? Are you scared?

Sounds quite logical, but where did you find this information?

Leonard wrote: < Your thread heading implies a Nikon announcement before the end of Nikon's 100th anniversary year. > That was my thought too. Would be nice. And even though a D850 is lighter than ...

I"m eagerly awaiting the return of smoke signals, post messages in bottles, steamships, fax machines and the guillotine.

+11111 I have a bag with a D800E and 9 lenses and often have to carry an extra camera with one or two lenses because I test them for a magazine. No problem whatsoever (although I must say my ...

The more aberrations (~lack of sharpness, color fringing, distortion) you want to correct, especially on wider and faster lenses, the more elements (single lenses) you need and the more special ...

Technical developments always go much faster than one realizes, but it takes much longer to actually use those developments. In 1976 Popular Mechanics wrote that in two years at most, people...