Dave Oddie

Deserved time off? They are on a permanent holiday taking photos and making videos! I should be so lucky ;)

I'd like them to update it.  I am currently using an A mount 70-300G with an adapter.  Works well and is sharp at F5.6 but I'd prefer a modern design for FE mount so I can ditch the adapter and ...

That's more about the business side of things than the technology in my opinion. Sony did two things Samsung didn't.  First, they bought Minolta so had an established user base and second when they ...

Those graphs don't surprise me.  In my aps-c days I had the Sony CZ 16-80 and my graphs are similar but with most use at 24, 40 and 120 equivalent. Maybe the fact 105 is the highest is telling you ...

Why? Lenses like this are designed to have distortions corrected and be used that way.

If it wasn't built like this then it would be huge if it existed at all.

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In the UK the price of the camera is the old $ to £ equivalent we are used to seeing i.e. its about $3900 in the US and about £3900 in the UK. Always been annoying but it's not exactly a new...

My point was you won't be anything like 100m away if you are photographing things like birds if you aim to fill the frame e.g. bird perched in a tree.

For people who photograph birds and other...

It's a complex program to learn and it has plenty of frustrating foibles. I started to notice some of my negative scans were looking very grainy.  It turns out Silverfast was increasing the ...

@Gkuzu so you keep saying but it’s completely out of place here. To say it’s an important branch of underwater photography is also a complete overstatement. It’s frivolous which is fine in the...

There are lots of internet reviewers who should be given a wide berth but unless you  think he’s  corrupt and posting fakes, which would be a big accusation, I  think you can judge based on the ...

Smartphones and firmware updates are irrelevant.  The camera doesn’t need a firmware update to use the lens and the application of the profile is independent of the cameras and  it’s firmware. ...

If I wasn’t being clear I meant the fact that if uncorrected it has a lot of distortion it’s irrelevant because its not designed to be used without correction. Why do you want to use it without ...

Too short for sports? 300mm F2.8’s have been a standard part of the sports photographers armoury for decades. Not all sports are played or take pace in the far distance ;)

It’s inevitable and the trend won’t change unless it’s proved to be severely detrimental to image quality but what gets my goat is people saying, as they khave done in at least one comment in the ...

I have two of the compact primes and I do enjoy using the aperture ring. The function buttons don’t get used much and are set to als-c mode.   On a lens like the 20-70 a function button set  to do ...

Yes he is but so what?  Does it invalidate the review images he posted?

The lens doesn't exist (at this size & weight) without it. So people either accept digital correction or people pass on lenses like this.  It's a simple choice and if the comments in the news ...

I won't be buying it at that price.  A pity the Tamron 20-40 doesn't have more functionality like an aperture ring and function button.    Maybe Sigma will add something similar at a more ...

I have no idea of what the dimensions of the dpr test chart that they use in the video is but I am pretty sure it’s larger than a bird. Even birds like herons or large birds of prey.

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Other lenses in the Sony range do not follow this trend.  The 200-600 is $1998 in the US and £1499 in the U.K.  If taxes were the issue the 200-600 would be over £2k in the U.K.