ChicagoSam

Yes I too was a fan of the a77. I bought both iterations of it. The second one was better than the first. They were revolutionary cameras I think, moving one step closer to mirrorless. At the time...

The photos look slightly better than every photo I ever took when I was a kid with my toy roll-film cameras. My Minolta primes work well on my now-obsolete Sony a77ii but I shied away from buying...

Nice work, bravo! I appreciate your use of the scientific method, taking your own measurements rather than relying on the advice of others. Yes it looks like this lens fares well against your ...

I agree that those reviewers seem a little over reliant on strict technical measurements and I can't always reconcile the performance of the actual lens with their verdicts. I do read the reviews ...

Yes the 15-45 lens is an amazing featherweight zoom lens. Most reviewers don't seem to take it seriously if they ever mention it at all, but the edge to edge sharpness at 15mm is amazing--possibly ...

I think so. That is the choice I've made anyway. I like wide angle and I think it's very useful and interesting to use on the street. After all, the street can be a very big place and you can't ...

I wasn't comparing it to lenses with different zoom ranges, only to other 16-80 lenses. I saw the unenthusiastic reviews on both Opticallimits and Lenstip as well. the Lenstip guy mostly seems ...

I also own the Nikon 16-80 as well as the venerable Zeiss/Sony 16-80 with its screw drive and I believe that this lens is slightly better than either of them, though not as fast as the Nikon at ...

I wondered why there was silence from both Sony as well as the public as these cameras quietly disappeared from view. Well, you're silent no longer. I'm pretty dismayed because I almost certainly...

I was wondering when someone was going to say something about the obvious, that the SLT format was dead. The cameras disappeared from online stores in the US some time ago, maybe months. Sigma...

@Pavel Muller I agree there is no additional loss of detail when using Prime, it's just so slow that if I don't need it I don't use it. It's great to have available though for noisy photos, or...

I only use Prime with especially noisy images

Damn shame that they killed off this line of cameras. All my nice lenses now belong to an increasingly decrepit 2015 camera that will never be updated. I'm not very interested in adapting them to...

This is a cool photo. Kind of a metaphor for the decay of old memories. I too would like to know where you found it, and see some more pages from it.

Thanks for the advice Patrick. I tried wiping the contact surfaces with a cotton cloth and it seemed to smooth it a bit. There seemed to be a very thin layer of lubricant on the surfaces and maybe ...

I bought a factory-refurbished copy of this lens and I'm mostly happy with it. I use it with my d7500 and It seems consistently sharp and in-focus at all focal lengths and apertures. I haven't yet ...