Richard Schumer

2:3 and widescreen video formats (9:16, 9:20, etc.) limit one's options if one uses various compositional techniques -- rule of thirds, golden ratio, extended corner angles, and several square root...

@bobb -- We have similar ways of dealing with older tech: When shooting in poor light, I use the popup flash on the K10, when possible, as fill to bring the shadows up instead of pulling them up...

OMG! A blessing AND a curse! My go-to camera system is a classic! My go-to system is a throwback!

Yes, I still use my Pentax K10 for more serious work (I have an Oly EP-M2 for carrying...

Mebbe I'm missing something, but my Pentax k10d (10MP) gives 50-70MB till files.

Shift lenses are overrated, IMO. I had one and its limitations were many. It was on a Nikon F system, and Nikon had no way to couple the diaphragm to the camera, meaning stop-down manually for...

@Akpinxit -- Yeah, heat reduction. Perhaps a nice heat sink, too. Heat seems to the the main culprit behind noise nowadays.

Some years ago when stock photo agencies were moving from film to digital, many required minimum 50MP images. I got this from a stock pro I trust. He scanned his medium-format film on a drum...

@ Autriche78 --Fuji is an enormous corporation, with tentacles everywhere; it hardly needs to bleed R&D funds from its point-and-shoot and x-trans divisions. Just saying.

@ar T rn --Last year I bought a (refurbished) Oly E-PM2 body for $199 from Amazon.

So $330 would seem a little high to me, unless there's a huge change in the yuan/dollar ratio.

An apology: My post below, while I stand by it, is inappropriate in the camera announcement forum. Here it sounds like a troll; I did not mean it to be. Truthfully, I like this iteration of the...

@Justme -- It is possible I read the US press, which may have a different viewpoint. Thanks for a possible explanation. There are a LOT of people in China, SE Asia and India....

Of course, the...

I will never understand business decisions and US political campaigns, I guess. Recently the press has been saying that the sales of Canon's M-series and Nikon's J-series have been so poor the...

<satire>I was jsut thinking along the same lines; these guys are taking the easy way -- marketing lenses which produce instagram-like effects on DSLRs and mirrorless ILCs when a better way to go...

The Biotar was a double-gauss lens like many others of its focal length and f:stop, just with lackadaisical assembly and polish. The Meyer optic also lacked precision assembly and high-gloss...

Damn! I coulda/shoulda bought one of these when it was a $10 option on an Exa body for $99.00 from Willoughby's in NYC via their ad in Popular Photography in 1956. Too bad I bought a Hexacon...

Does it come in m43 mount? ;o}

Digital "correction" leaves artefacts elsewhere (noise, sharpness, smoothness.) Optical correction does not.

@Toselli: "Who would struggle to design a lens that has a visible barrel distortion so that it wouldn't be rectilinear but not even wide enough to be a fisheye?"

The answer is Leica. (the Q's...

@Toselli: There are no truly rectilinear lenses according to the main general definitions of the term. All lenses can only approach true rectilinearity, but in common optical usage the term has...

@ Jefftan.

Setting the hyperfocal distance is easy: Just use the far or near f-stop dot on the depth-of-field scale of a MF prime lens which corresponds to the f:stop you will use. Set that dot...