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Sounds like a great opportunity to answer your own question with a purchase.

Just joking around, but I found this to be lovely!!!

robgendreau, You should check the link you provided because it goes to a California gov site about license plates.....

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Get prepared for some really unhelpful comments (not from me, but surely to follow over the next few days). My comment: ultimately, you'd have to try the lens yourself in order to see if there's ...

He handles the solution to his gear problems very elegantly!

That's a great definition of irony.

Internal dust is WAY overrated as an issue which could cause image problems. Much worse is internal haze and fungus which has to be quite bad to begin to cause a slight loss of contrast, easily ...

When you import the files from the camera into LR, what presets, if any, are you using in the Development Module? Your RAW files look very processed to me and I suspect there is some in-camera ...

Yes, you are! The lens looks absolutely fine, even if that small speck is dust. That type of thing has NO impact on quality whatsoever, so relax and shoot with your new toy.

Taking a chance on a USED battery for a $3K camera? No thanks.

For the sake of clarity, the fear of scratching the sensor is simply wrong because you are not actually cleaning the sensor surface, just the glass that protects it.

Are you kidding? That first image has artifacts all over it.

No, you shouldn't. Besides, from what I can see of the report, f/8 seems really quite good, so how about using that aperture and -- like everyone else said -- shoot it for a while, gain some ...

Do you also return kitchen knives to the manufacturer for replacement when they get "scratched" and "dull" from use? It's just a camera!!

What an odd joy in reading this thread: NO fighting and complete agreement!

When I hear their commercial, I can't help but to award them the most idiotic-ironic-possible-name award!

Dude, Do you realize this thread is more than one year old????

You are going to die as an embittered, crusty, lonely old man. Why do you need to be such an a**hole???

No blood? You're fine.