John Bean (UK)

“relatively unique” ? What does that mean?

“Unique” is both absolute and binary in meaning; something is either unique or it isn’t, nor can it be more or less unique compared with anything...

When the M3 was made cameras in general - especially high-end cameras - had no metering or automation of any sort so no need for the camera to know what film was loaded.

Today’s young writers think all flash shoes are ‘hotshoes’. Sign of the times.

It already did more or less happen with the Pansonic CM1. It failed.

Faster doesn’t imply more accurate AF. The addition of PDAF doesn’t make images any sharper but it certainly seems to make the shadows noisier.

“ silly smooth ” - love it, typo or not :-)

You’re probably right, and I have already given up on Panasonic cameras (the old LX100 was the last I tried) despite having enjoyed others over the years including the archetypal G1 and LX1. Shame...

Disappointing. I wanted to like the original LX100 the way I liked the Fuji X100 but it was a failure for me. I can live with a fixed LCD only if the viewfinder is good, which was not the case fot...

No, the LX3 had a conventional larger “multi-aspect” sensor with constant diagonal FoV for 16:9, 3:2 and 4:3. The LX1/2 had a native 16-9 sensor, simply cropped to give the other aspect ratios.

“Body type: Rangefinder-style mirrorless“

Erm... no, it’s a real rangefinder.

“My Panasonic LX2 had a unique sensor. The only camera to have a sensor sized for a 16:9 aspect ratio.”

Apart from the LX1 that preceded it... ;-)

Sounds right. Many financial scams have used this sort of pyramid-funding model, requiring constantly increasing investor numbers to survive until the inevitable collapse. Of couse by then the...

That sounds right. I have the default merering bias set to +1ev for highlight metering on my A6500 and although it’s pretty conservative in most situations I would expect it to be less tolerant...

As an exclusively raw user I use highlight metering a lot on my A6500 and miss it when I use my RX100M4, which is most days as it’s always in my pocket.

I see the new RX100M6 has added highlight...

And then the phone rings...

This seems to have lost the plot when it comes to why people use a phone to take pictures - because they always have the *phone* with them. If you’re going to use this...

The picture you show is not of henges and certainly nothing ancient - unless a few decades count as ancient. It is in fact the outlines of a formal garden at Gawthorpe Hall just down the road from...

I always have a backup (Time Machine is set to do one hourly) and it’s certainly good advice. I did firewall it as well, although it made no attempt to connect to anywhere.

I don’t think it’s...

You're right - it just locked up my Mac again, this time at 90% completion. Interestingly this wasn't preceded by a colour-wheel cursor, so no high system demand when it froze.

It's clearly trying...

I'll try that later. For now the hight ISO stuff is what interests me, and the A6500 results are indeed spectacular between crashes. At least now it's only the app that crashes periodically for no...

1.0.7.3 now works perfectly (so far!) on my Mac. I've only run a few tests with high ISO RX100m4 files and was pleased to see very usable results at ISO 6400 from a quick burst of 13 raw files,...