David Franklin

These kind of "my father can beat up your father" brand battles are, of course, de rigueur in these gear related threads. The one supposition that underlines almost all this is their adherents' ...

Wow! I also used, briefly at one point, the Pentax 6x7, among several other medium format SLR (Hasselblad, Fuji) systems I worked with, but that camera had a shutter/mirror combination that went ...

Aside from the R1 announcement and probably a prototype in a glass box, I don't know or expect anything. What I am hoping for this year is an R5II, with several improvements and a small bump in ...

Victor, as I stated in a previous post in this thread, there are two reasons that so-called "heat shimmer is worse with long lenses. The first is that people mostly use long lenses farther away ...

I have no idea of the focusing performance of the 200-800mm lens, but I do know a bit about heat shimmer. As a former high end car shooter, I often encountered a huge problem with heated air ...

A new RF 24-70 f/2.8 lens is highly unlikely now and for a long time to come. The current lens is excellent, and rather than trying to marginally improve an already great lens, Canon will ...

I may misunderstand your intentions and be too ignorant of your methods, but it would seem to me to be simpler to do somewhat the opposite - keep the ambient light exposure relatively static for ...

First, and this is my opinion as a very long-time professional shooter, a camera with a more or less conventional electronic shutter (really sensor) that has the cycling speed of the best in breed ...

In reply to Mike Ran, everything else that he speculated on was at least something that could easily be extrapolated from current trends or already published as likely rumors, except the R1/R3...

One question for Shaminder: is your speculation on the introduction of the R1, as opposed to an R3II, based on something more than a wild guess, or is it on something more concrete? If not, why...

Commenting on your thinking about naming photo gear, nothing is more true than”everything old is new again.” Although I’m not a Leica-phile, I’ve been a pro photographer or amateur for long enough...

I think that's clearly Mario's hat. If you try looking at it at 100% or less, you may even be able to see it more clearly. Or not. Merry Christmas.

If both our Dads stand on one foot only, my Dad can beat up your Dad, despite that neither can beat up the other when standing on both feet. That proves my Dad is better than your Dad. So there! ...

I just wonder, if any of the spectacular shots from pro nature photographers with any of the “big whites” of birds that we all sometimes see are ever processed with any adjustments like sharpening ...

This may be somewhat off topic, but I’ve been wondering where you got that quote about the R5Ii being in current production. Please provide where you got that. It’s certainly the first I’ve heard ...

I would have no problem reporting more issues with my R5 if they actually existed. I am not here to "protect" Canon's reputation; they don't need me to do that, and it would be stupid for me to do ...

I've had mine since about 6 months after its intro. So far, it's been as reliable as a shovel. No lockups, no real problems at all. My only concern, like some others is the hotshoe. It's not bad, ...

I was actually trying to reply to the OP, not you, but apparently hit the wrong reply button.  What I said was in good faith, and your reply was a little snappy considering my post. Sorry if you ...

The R5 does have silent electronic shutter. Why do some posting here think it doesn’t?

There is not likely anything “wrong” with the color of the R62 image. The lamp shade is grossly over exposed so that, no matter what color it may have been, the result would be white. This is ...