Anton Siberian

True, it is natural. The Altai Mountains in south is closer to Mongolia and Kazakhstan with dry climate.

StoneJack, you're absolutely unrelevant here. I'm from the place, there wasn't the camps in Altai Mountains. It's just a very beautiful place on Earth, almost undiscovered and rarely seen.
The only...

I'm from Altai Krai. Of course there are many mountain territories with forests! It's huge area with the different types of landscapes.

Thanks for your kind words! :) Btw the lens is noticeably decentered (not a surprise from a Sony lens ;)), but affected mostly on the long end with apertures faster than 9-10.

Thanks! Nice to hear that! We're almost on the opposite parts of the planet, so in my town it is evening right now. PS I hope you may visit Altai some time ;)

Thank you, Phil, I appreciate it!

The SELP1650 is not an excellent lens, but quite nice for the size! In 2017 I've visited not Lauenburg, but Lichtenberg in Nidersachsen with Sony A6000 and SELP1650. Sometimes we could get really ...

Barnaul is my hometown in the southwest of Siberia. It is located between Novosibirsk and beautiful Altai Mountains. I have Sony A7II as my main camera, but recently I bought a Sony A5100 second ...

Yeah, a sort of oversharpened smartphone look.

@SomeguyPNW
The 17-28 is cheaper than what? Now we have Tamron 11-20 f2.8 and it's lighter and cheaper than 17-28 for FF. Also there is new Samyang AF 12mm f2.0.

@Impulses you're right. Overall...

In 2018 I've switched from APS-C Sony to FF. If I had known then that there would be so many good lenses for APS-C (1-2 years later), I would never have switched. The Sony's FF is still too...

@CTMRIGuy
"In the west, you are free to criticize your government and write this post without fear that the government will make you disappear" - probably Julian Assange and Edward Snowden will...

Thanks for your kind words!

My favourite set of photos in the thread! So nice dreamy mood!

Just simple meadow flowers and plants to test my Sony FE 50mm F1.8. I think the lens is underrated. It's a bit slow but has nice colours and rather sharp even wide open (at least for my amateur ...

@Passereau Good smartphones are doing much worse even than the micro four thirds cameras. There are good EF-M optics, sharp and lightweight.

We are talking about different things. Of course bigger sensor is better, and better snr etc, because of bigger pixels! But mft is good enough in many situations. I have both and the difference...

@Alantkh try both cameras and set aperture priority with f2.8 and manual ISO. And you can get the same shutter speed automatically on m43 and ff camera.