BasilG

Nice rant, except that of course by relying solely on ad-hominem attacks, you're missing the most critical point. Which is not that his message may or may not have been ambiguous, but that you ...

I generally like Ricci, but the shutter time thing is BS. Yes, you get marginally more shutter speed with the 14 than with the 20, but not nearly enough to compensate for *two full f-stops* of ...

Yes, at the same f-stop, the lens with the better t-stop *at that f-stop* would let more light in, but that's not what DXO measures and it's not what their score is. Almost but not totally so. I ...

No. The t-stop is the true transmission, the f-stop relates to the physical aperture size. So they are not necessarily the same (if they are the same it means the lens has excellent transmission ...

I have the Nikkor, and in spite of mixed reviews (apparently others are sharper), I really like it. VR and AF are quite good, and I like the colors and rendering (maybe I have a soft spot for it ...

Be aware that the Tamron has a rather good reputation overall, whereas that of the 12-24 is somewhat mixed, with some people reporting fine performance at the wide end but weird sharpness/field ...

What astrophotography? In the high north in summer? ;)

If it were me, it'd be option A all the way, particularly because you'll be up there in summer and there won't be any stars or auroras to take pictures of, so the slowish ultrawide is not a ...

They were/are losing market share. So the problem is not just the economic environment, it's that what they make is perceived as less attractive than what others make. At the time when they were ...

Well it's a highly mature product at this point. Of course they could always innovate more, but at this stage, I don't think taking things away is a sound strategy. I remember the D300 selling ...

D7500 launch was accompanied by very much the same comments and complaints.

Yes to the first one, the second one is a Nikon style "upgrade with stuff removed".

I got that part right then...

Well, I'll start: "Even when given a video camera, all I wanted was taking stills".

Either you didn't understand what I was trying to say, or I don't understand what you're trying to say.

As a kid, I had access to my parents' video camera. I went to the local airfield, filmed the planes landing and taking off, connected the camera to the computer, exported the best frames, and ...

It's probably even more pedestrian than you think - they wanted to save the manufacturing costs for the few pieces of electronics that are needed to provide grip connectivity. I don't know if the ...

Thanks!

Problem is heavily discounting a model and re-establishing the successor at the original price point worked fine at a time when that successor would have twice the pixel count, a far better AF ...

What I'm wondering is if the thing actually shoots double the images from the same charge with the same usage, or if it's just the CIPA stats that are better because there's no flash anymore. ...