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Of course (like everything) it all depends on your goal right? You might not need tack sharp results and better DOF may matter more (eg. You’re printing small, sky and water, you don’t need ...

Photoshop to the rescue with focus stacking ;)

Since before digital eh, quite a credential... now that's funny. But I have to ask, do you get some kind of a kick out of being rude to people? How is your TOG business doing? Do you talk to your ...

Indeed, I am actually reading instead, you asked me if I change lenses at a rodeo. I never said otherwise No it doesn't, perhaps on your Panasonic of which I have no personal experience. In fact ...

Very nice shots indeed. Yes I'd REALLY love to add that lens to my collection (sigh) but at least for now I must live with my 100-400 GM which is really not compromising very much at all in terms ...

I wouldn't go smaller than f8-f11 with this lens.. you'll get even sharper results. By f13 it is starting to soften up. Don't take my word for it, check it yourself.

He wants to shoot wide open and maintain a fast enough shutter speed to freeze the action. But as Mark says nobody is fast enough to adjust the exposure correctly manually - hence he uses A ...

Seems highly unlikely to me and yes I'm VERY happy with my Sony gear warts and all. No, I simply shoot a lot with my camera in many different locations. If you use your gear a lot your sensor will ...

I have to say that at least to me it’s astonishing how many people here seem to have never cleaned their camera sensors. I can only assume that there’s a lot of expensive camera gear out there ...

Kimwipes and a couple drops of Pancro fluid. Same as I use on my lenses as does nearly the entire movie industry. They don’t damage the lens coatings (or scratch) as some might suggest.

NP .... just be very careful not to accidentally slip and touch your sensor with the wipe.

I will give you one tip that I picked up from a Sony rep: periodically take a moist wipe around the lens mount on the camera body. It typically comes away covered in visible dark grime - that dirt ...

I usually don't find dust. Typically I will see grayish fuzzy spots appearing in lighter areas such as the sky. But it's astonishing to me that Panasonic is totally immune to dust. Quite amazing ...

Perhaps because it doesn’t work? I’ve never once had the self cleaning function remove those annoying spots trying it first on hundreds of occasions.

I have noticed that fellow togs seem to get a LOT more dust than me in and around there. I’m pretty anal about dust prevention - I could go into great detail on my OCD and overkill in this regard ...

With SLR cameras the sensor is way down in a ‘pit’ that is normally covered by a mirror. It therefore naturally gets far less dust on it (and it’s also harder to manually clean when it eventually ...

Good points Hank and yes I also do a lot of hikes and various outdoorsy stuff myself. For the situation that you describe I’d probably be carrying my RX100 instead (or just my phone). Either that ...

You can still get very good results with GM at 35mm if you simply stop down slightly (eg. f4, f5.6 etc...). It’s a great lens.

I highly recommend that you watch some of Mark Galer's A9 videos on YouTube - especially: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfLjnE4-NT4&list=PLWC-IgKORdDGq-6lNurP_B7J7GqJCWycQ&index=2&t=0s https://ww ...