Dave Oddie

@Sir 7 "One of my favorite lenses to shoot my cats indoors with is the 85mm f1.8G Nikkor on crop body. A 137.5mm equivalent."

It's 127.5mm equivalent not 137.5. 85 x 1.5 = 127.5

Nope.

Barnack decided that the 18 x 24 mm (3:4 aspect ratio) standard movie frame was not large enough for good still photo quality with the films of the day and doubled the frame size to 24 x 36...

Yes they do but for me 35mm would be the default and so going wider I'd want 24mm not 28mm.

It's undoubtedly a top lens but I wonder how many will buy it based on the reviews and not actually use it that much?

I just did a quick check on my photo library (over 40k of them many that I...

Just because something is written on the Internet doesn't mean it is true. This is especially the case if the person who wrote it is Ken Rockwell.

I'll give him his due, he garners a nice living...

I was not talking about integrated GPS but the fudge Sony came up with on A99II and I thought also the A77II.   If the A77II does not have this then it's even worse in that respect than I thought.

Maybe many of these images aren't all cat photos and even if of no interest you, they will in time to come provide a useful social commentary on the era? Like we benefit from when we look back at...

I don't think you can say 4:3 is an accident of history simply because there was no compulsion for Oly to chose that ratio. It also works with 8x10 and 8.5 x 11 which is a common magazine format....

Only if you stick the Zeiss 35mm F1.4 on the front which isn't really a fair comparison anyway because the crop factor turns the F1.7 into something like an F2.3 on the Leica and you also "only"...

Well I guess the 35mm crop is now feasible at 30mp resolution as in that this is still (usually) plenty of resolution. At 50mm and 75mm it's being outresolved by the Panasonic Lumix LX100 II M43...

Eh? The OP is shooting on aps-c.  Neither is particularly wide on aps-c

How many slides have you got?  I digitised a similar number to 7000 with an Epson V750 pro.  Thee results with slides were excellent.  Not so hot with negatives as its harder to get the colour ...

What we term full frame is an accident of history and has nothing to do with getting a lens throat diameter of about 50mm

It's also a reference because of this accident of history not because it...

blackcoffee17 your post doesn't make any sense. Show me a 600mm or 200-800 full frame zoom the same size as the Oly and Fuji lenses.

You also missed the O/P's point. If you want a super-tele...

If they are working on IBIS I wonder how many who were contemplating taking the plunge with the current cameras just decided to wait? And how many early adopters are kicking themselves?

I was as...

I never knew it but for all these years working in Software I have been adding features :)

Phenomenon? Don't they mean firmware bug?

I am going to try that out at work and see how far I get next time a customer reports a bug in the software ;)

I use Flickr much like you do Nikon1977K but I also know that just because you pay for a service it is not guaranteed to persist.

"Fujifilm has already announced the development of a 100MP GFX camera with a BSI sensor, which it'll be hard for the smaller format to match"

Well there you go. Size matters. Currently the...

That cost argument is not really a valid argument.  You can't buy versions of say a Canon 7DII without GPS and I have not seen a single camera that has GPS which costs any more than the ...