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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...

Ok, so you're comparing monkeys to women. Well, let me tell you something about women: most women are a lot more intelligent than this monkey. Hey, some of them or maybe even a lot of them, are...

No, we should rename it the internet forum effect. 95% of the people responding are on the first part of the curve, where it's very high. Forums wouldn't exist without the Dunning-Kruger effect....

Sorry Chris, didn't find the time. Have to finish a book first and work for a magzine. I hope to do so in one or two weeks

Hi Bert, Just like you I’ve been doing Photo stacking for many years. But unlike you I found the implementation of it in the D850 to be very good. If you change focus manually, you are often unable ...

This discussion is rather pointless. I showed you my result at 35mm and f/8 and > 350 cm which was excellent. You ‘test’ at a ridiculous close distance like 50 cm and I don't know what else you do ...

Nikkor 16-35mm f/4 VR @ 35mm f/8 This is a picture made at 35mm, classical brick wall test :). Elliotn claimes the lens to be unusable at this focal length. I think it's just fine. At 16mm the ...

What are you trying to proof by testing a scene with many details at f/4? That you have to stop down almost any lens to make a picture that is sharp? At any case, a pictures like this doesn't say ...

As far as I know Nikon doesn't specifiy anywhere for what distance the MTF's are calculated. I don't see it in the standard explanation at any case. Yes performance wide open in the corners is ...

The center is stopped down always excellent. You have to look at the borders and corners to find real differences. It’s time we do some close reading here. ‘Like crazy’ can’t mean anything else ...

Well ok, this was a rhetorical question. The design specs of this lens – like of any gold ring lens – have been formulated based on demands an experiences of pro photographers, it’s one of the ...

Eliotn wrote: <<The 14-24 is a little bit sharper than the 16-35 (at the focal lengths where they overlap), but the 14-24 flares like crazy.>> Says who? Did you ever make any pictures with the lens ...

Parry Johnson wrote: <<By the way, there was a "Baby Rollei" that took 127 films and was therefore more popular for slides. Ricoh made a knock-off, too, if I recall correctly.>> At least there was ...

DxO tests don't say anything. Maybe they should start using Adobe software :-) I've tested hundreds of lenses (I still do that for a magazine) and the 6.7-13 is one of the best super wide angles. ...

A 85mm is quite long for DX, it's like a 127.5 mm full frame. 50mm is a little short for most faces, it's a 75mm in 35mm equivalent and none of the fifties render really nice for portraits. The ...

The OP asked: are fast lenses still important in digital photography? The simple answer is: <It depends.> We have camera sensors now that are sharper and have (a lot) less noise/grain than films ...