Timur Born

Just quickly glancing over the shot at 100% out of curiosity when I noticed this.

Why are the stripe artifacts present at the very edges of the frame outside the autofocus area? Are there still PDAF sensels present, but just not used for AF (due to angles)?

Is she wearing contact lenses?

I would say that what is discussed here about on-sensor PDAF sensels is less a problem of shadow pushing, but more a problem of pattern interpolation. How much of that translates into practice is ...

Does it or does it not introduce noise banding on camera sensors like other Tamron lenses do during focus motor operation?

No, you misunderstood that. The very same sensor image is used for both EVF and AF and as such suffers from the same limitations for both. When light-levels drop the only way to keep both the EVF ...

Do review sites specifically test for this, especially when the change between PDAF and CDAF happens (light levels)?

The Olympus E-M5 seems to just focus on the center of the face box, which often is the nose. Other than that it seems to prefer stronger contrast areas (contrast AF) like eyebrows or the seams of ...

Because it serves a useful purpose and most people are better off with such a filter.

From the "First impression" article: Notice how the test shots are all done with relatively lots of light?! From Olympus cameras I know that "combination of phase- and contrast-detect" usually ...

What is the grooved bump at the left side of the viewfinder (from the front)?

If DSLR makers neglect investing in DSLR development then yes, don't give them your money.

New feature updates and performance updates as quite far and in between for LS/PS. You get new camera...

Unfortunately this means again that the money I pay for desktop products is put more into dividends and developing tablet products than improving said desktop products. Too bad.

You mean 256 gb flash memory, which is equivalent to harddrive space on a desktop. 4 gb RAM is where all the data has to be put in order to work on it. Very large images might not fit in there...

To follow this line of thought... Sensor area of house with red roof at 16 mm Sensor area of house with red roof at 35 mm Take a projector/beamer and enlarge/shrink its display area on the screen. ...

It says "wrong equivalence" in there. So it's absolutely on topic. :P

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The video tells us otherwise, so I am interested in their own practical choices vs. what was told in the video.

Thanks for the thorough answer! I misunderstood the notation. Now I get it. Thanks for clarifying this. With Nikon's mechanical aperture lever you can change aperture diameter by applying different ...

Looks like I will (have to) stay with Photoshop then. Fair enough.