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I am repeating my heresy: if you do need a beautiful optic at 135 for portraits and general albeit at a price then is it worth looking at real photos of Flickr, say, from that Samyang135/2 ? - or ...

Gone now - not surprised

FYI  the Tamron sp90 f017 ( now discontinued apparently ) will work with z but needs to be sent back to tamron for a hardware update.  If you are interested , check with your local Tamron distributor ...

Yes RAW + Deepprime or AI Topaz - pretty essential for small sensor images ( m43 and 1 inch ). Are you underexposed on the second shot ?  Looked like it when I D/L the jpeg and looked at the ...

great set Rich. Really nice lighting you had for the dove, cactus and Trixie but I like them all. I don't think my wife has sussed ( or she hasn't said so ) that my new found enthusiam for ...

A thought: I doubt that D500/Z owners like me would flock to any aps-c Z unless it at least matched the D500.  No way in hell am I going to drop £5.3k on a Z9 - great though it is - when I simply ...

I have been thinking of similar- but my em5.1 just keeps going on and on. The em10.2 is appealing ( used ) but the em5.2 is more but does have some weather sealing - with the right lens. The mark ...

No - it’s me -  I am really sorry - you stated  clearly the small difference in P2P. I misread your post - my apologises Richard

Not disagreeing with you in terms of practical experience- I only have/had a d500/d7100 and a nex 6 ( since camera pity about the kit lenses then )   but I see nothing in the P2P link to suggest ...

Yes you lose a bit with the TC14 on the 300 pf but really not much because it has very high res to start with. With a 1.7 TC I thought it was poor and stopped using it but I realised that I hadn't ...

Sounds good that you have identified the lens you want and are working backwards from that I really doubt there is any significant difference in noise performance between any modernish apsc sensor ...

Sorry Niteman3D,  I should have made it clear that I just posted in case anyone in the UK ( or possibly the EU ) was interested. WEX will sell ex UK and Channel Islands but the buyer has to arrange ...

you have  different cameras there in terms of res.  So which do you want/need 45 or 33? No issues in terms of IQ using FX glass on Z via FTZ. Doubt Nikon is going belly up anytime soon especially ...

If anyone is interested: WEX have one in - condition 8 at 459. I imagine the usual 12 month warranty,

No so for myself: Just how many 100,000's of thousand of photographers in the film era and beyond relied on these basics: a nifty fifty, a wide and a short tele. Perhaps that is why they appeared ...

Hardly random: the basics - a 50 or near, an 85 portrait/ short tele and a general purpose wide angle. I was assuming, looking at the fact that the OP has been posting since 2014, that he had been ...

Never use them myself. Have you tried the cheap ones on amazon or ebay that claim infinity focus like this one: https://www.amazon.com/FOTGA-Mount-Adapter-Mirrorless-Cameras/dp/B07D731F3C/ref=sr_1_ ...

Good to see these Rich - really pretty birds.

Don't think they will replace a camera for me however I do use it ( iphone SE 2020 ) not just for documenting things - and more so recently. I took some really nice close-ups of conifers. weed ...

Lovely pictures Bob Richard