Dave Oddie

@Track79 "I think it's still you get what you pay for. For example: the Canon R5 costs twice the money of a Z 6 II and Z 7 II. You can't expect the same performance for half of the price of other...

I am going to assume @steelhead3 was being sarcastic.

For years when CanNikon (mainly) were churning out cameras both aimed at pros and amateurs without some sort of tilting or pivoting display...

"...I photograph mostly living things and prefer to see my subject as it is, rather than any type of digital representation."

But what you are creating IS a digital representation which is what...

"Below you'll see - in red - an S-shaped gamma curve applied by a typical JPEG processing engine to boost global contrast. This same curve is applied to the standard EVF preview on most cameras...

"Like Sigma's sports lenses which are limited to 15 FPS."

I thought that was down to Sigma?

I am pretty some Tamron lenses can go at full speed.

"Nikon and Canon's decisions to keep their mounts closed to competitors means they can control the consistency of experience for their users (with less risk of a third-party lens offering...

I am not very keen on these "five frames with" articles regardless of what camera and lens they use as it seems a rather trivial exercise. I'd be much more interested in someone passing on their...

"At the same brightness, a smaller area captures less light"

And I am sure the physics tells you that this is a "bad" thing for smaller sensors.

The trouble is this is where theory and the...

@Mk82 DPR doesn't have journalists? I suspect that is news to several of the contributors.

For example Mr Butler's LinkedIn profile states he has "extensive journalism experience" and he has...

Isn't another advantage of the Sony that it doesn't extend when zooming? It has an internal zoom mechanism.

@bp_reid I am pretty sure Olympus were the first to come out with multi-spot metering. The OM4 also had highlight and shadow button which simply shifted the exposure. You spot metered the...

Does it have eye AF?

Well I wish they had this when I was developing and printing 30 years ago. Would have made life much easier than commandeering the bathroom and trying to make sure it was light-proof.

Because they do camera specific versions for those three. I think for a long time Sony was the only one. You got a free version (and can still get the free version) made available to you if you...

I don’t buy the notion that this is a 24mp camera because it’s a sports oriented pro camera and so the files produced are smaller and so easier to handle.

This is 2021 and we have super fast...

@Mk82 I agree with your sentiment but I don't think you need to go as far as citing subject recognition and other technologies to see the double standards at play. I will give two examples.

1....

Clever AF and viewfinder technology but that is a lot of money for a camera with a limit use case of essentially being designed for sports. I thought the Sony A9 was expensive for the same...

My information is probably way out of date but I have always had the idea that OM lenses on Panasonic or Panasonic on OM didn’t have software corrections for. distortion or CA. Presumably because...

I suppose an advantage of the 40mm F1.4 on an Olympus body is any lens corrections will work which I assume is not the case with the Panasonic 40mm F1.7?

@Ken60 I was living in London during the 80's and 90's and you are correct, it was a rather special time.