Peter Cockerell

J A C S you are definitely confusing the phrase "amount of data" with "number of representable values". A ten-bit value is able to represent four times the number of values of an eight-bit one, but...

" Go to large format and you can design crazy good F5.6 lenses and still get the depth of field of a full frame at f1.4."

Only if the "large" format camera had a crop factor of 0.25x and a sensor...

Only the most parochial-minded of Westerners would ever have believed all the wonders of the world were "here".

Yep! ! was using 1.5-1.6 as the APS-C:MFT factor instead of the correct (2 over that number), i.e. 1.25-1.33, so my MPixel counts for APS-C should have been 20-21.3M pixel. So as you say, current...

+NetMage No, because to confer the kind of digital zoom advantage that you imply, the larger sensor camera would need a greater pixel density, not just greater pixel count. Even for a trailing-edge...

I just compared my old ef-s 10-22 + metabones with my Sony 10-18 on an a6300 body. They were pretty much much and neck, except at 18mm, where at f/4.5, the Sony was much softer than the Canon. At ...

Though of course you wouldn't want to use a speed booster adapter with an ef-s lens on an aps-c body, or you'll get severe vignetting.

Absolutely. The voice-over, music and lyrics were all execrable. OK visuals, though.

I was thinking of this story specifically, for those who haven't seen it:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/us/politics/china-phones-software-security.html

Plus Huawei (manufacturer if the...

What assurance is there that these Chinese-manufactured phones aren't sending your Google contacts and captured passwords to a site in China?

+Henning W, thanks for the clarification. The only macro lens I've owned is a Tamron which is specifically 1:1.

For the 65mm "macro", where are they measuring the minimum focus distance from? If it's the focal plane, as is usual, then the magnification will be 0.43 (1:2.3), far short of a true 1:1 macro....

Interesting, I guess just because a camera produces subjectively appealing shots, that doesn't mean the colors are necessarily accurate!

Yes, Phil lived in Singapore for several years at the start of dpreview. The sample photos often featured his lovely Singaporean wife, but Phil was never shown. I think I only ever saw one photo of...

I wonder what compression was used for the images in the PDF. Lossless, hopefully...

My god, what an utter load of billocks. How does dpreview fall for this kind of crap?