John Bean (UK)

Thanks for that, I had no knowledge of older Hasselblads. As you rightly say the Kiev had a focal plane shutter - which is why I said "sort-of" when refering to the similar-looking Hasselblad that...

You're like a stuck record, spamming news articles. Enough.

Never used a Kiev 60 but I did briefly own a Kiev 88 (a sort-of Hasselblad 500 clone) which was a pretty awful experience after decades of using TLRs and folding rollfilm cameras. The Kiev 60 looks...

"I think when you export from C1 to DNG you get pixel file not RAW file! "

From the C1 help on export formats: "DNG - Creates a new lossless RAW file based on the Digital Negative specification....

Conversion of Fuji X-Trans to DNG always produces a demosaiced RGB file as DNG has no way to store X-Trans directly. This is the reason I normally use Iridient X-Transformer rather than Adobe to...

An older version of Lr or ACR can "lose" geometric and vignetting correction data from a file if the DNG spec. version used to create the file is newer than the version used to read it. This is not...

Pandemic of irony ddeficiency syndrome.

Well Adobe wins on "how to do" DNG, so C1 is in the wrong. Either C1 should handle DNG the same way as everyone else (not just Adobe) or not offer it at all. "Mix and match" software use with open...

Interestingly for Fuji C1 Express users, this version will export to DNG from RAF, unlike earlier versions. The metadata isn't quite right (I mean it isn't what Adobe epects) so the camera/lens...

The Stellar was a RX100 not a NEX-6 - not that it matters :-)

Well spotted :-)

"You can charge it up with your smartphone if you wanted"

...or just use your smartphone as a lightmeter in the first place.

"The world’s first 16.6x all-in-one zoom" - so, it's in a class of its own, so to speak.
"The best image quality in its class" - of course it is :-)

I love marketeer speak. It's complete and uttrt...

Hard to recocile that viewpoint with the popularity of the same FoV in the majority of phones and fixed lens compacts. But that doesn't mean I don't agree though; it's very odd.

"But I don't always have those [cameras] on me, whereas my iPhone is always in my pocket."

But surely the reason your camera is not always in your pocket is because it's something else to remember...

Ah, you're talking about the ergonomic nightmare of using a phone as a camera rather than using an actual camera. I'm with you on that one :-)

From a native English speeker: what vadims wrote :-)

"I like the fact that you can operate the controls while holding the camera horizontally with just one hand."

This sort of statement always puzzles me. Why do you want to?

"compact cameras that actually fit in your pocket often have poor controls, so I disagree. "

As is your right of couse :-)

But I note that you used "often" and not "always", otherwise my Ricoh GR...

They're all clunky compared with a dedicated camera and even more so when trying to use the phone as a phone.