Barry Reynolds

I got the M6 Mark ii today and really impressed with the low noise. Even at 6400 iso the pics look good where as the M200 have quite a bit of noise. The autofocus is much better and has many useful ...

Yeah I used focus area selection and then smart sharpen. I find it pretty sharp and as most of my images are just web, downsizing the image increases the sharpness so I find it pretty good for my ...

I got the viltrox speedbooster today and pretty impressed. Here it's with a Yongnuo 35mm f2 but it works well on the Canon 70-200 f4 which becomes f2.8, and also the 85mm f1.8 The downside so far ...

I have the speedbooster and Yongnuo 35 f2. The lens is pretty sharp and the speedbooster works well, however, against the Sigma 30mm f1.4 adjusting for image framing to be the same on both lenses, ...

In the real world there is no difference in sharpness between the 2

It all fits in a small rucksack so I can easily take everything, leave most in a hotel and just take 2 or 3 lenses and 2 bodies. The 8-16mm I only use at 11mm, the 11-22mm I use at 11mm mostly but ...

I don't need to bring everything. I have a small rucksack for this but on a day out I will pick 2 or 3 lenses to take with me and 2 bodies.

Sigma 8-16mm Canon 11-22mm Sigma 16mm f1.4 Sigma 30mm f1.4 Sigma 56mm f1.4 Canon 85mm f1.8 Canon 70-200 f4 1.4x teleconverter Canon M200 Canon M5

Relatively speaking, the 18-150 isn't a great lens but costs a fortune. The 15-45mm is ok. It's well worth selling and getting the 11-22mm, it's an amazing lens. The 55-200 is also better than the ...

If I was going super light then the M200 with 11-22mm and 56mm would be my choice.

This is my gear at the moment which I think is the ideal travel setup. I would like a Samyang 8mm and Viltrox 23mm but think this covers everything.

I own the M5 and M200 which I think is a good combination. The big advantage of the M5 over the M6 ii is you can use a flash whilst using the viewfinder. I don't know of a way to do this on the M6 ii?

I think I need to use it differently than other lenses where I use my feet to position. With the 16mm I can move my arms in or out to zoom which is like going from 24mm to 35mm. We do that with ...

I'm thinking now to use the 16mm as a phone replacement using the advantages of sharpness and shutter speed. f1.4 is too shallow to be useful for day to day usage but f2.8 seems ok and I can get ...

I like the 30mm as bokeh is easy to achieve and the lens is small but I do need to be a little to far away from the subject (my dog) than i'd like. The 16mm is very sharp but I'm struggling a bit ...

The top image has been cropped and Geometry vertically straightened in lightroom. The bottom image has a small crop of 5% horizontally. Both very sharp. I love the 11-22mm lens but for ...

It's much better than the 15-45. It has really nice colours, sharp at all f stops, good image stabilisation and small. It's also much better built. https://www.flickr.com/groups/canon-efm-11-22/pool/

I think the problem is the filter I'm using. They seem to affect autofocus and sharpness. I've tried them on several prime lens with and without and much better without

I think I found the issue. The room I used it in has very diffused light. In a room with spot lights it works fine so I guess the diffused light is affecting the focus

Yes some but the mountains aren't that far away in real life. You can see some of them are on an angle but it's hard to see unless you look