Paul De Bra

Long ago I attended a keynote talk at a conference, where a representative of Disney stated: "the most important dimension of a movie is the emotional dimension". The same of course holds for a photo.

I'm not arguing that depending on the situation you may need more megapixels. If you want to fill the wall with a high resolution print in which you cannot identify the individual pixels when you ...

Indeed it doesn't but it makes the pixels that are there better defined, not smudged partly together with surrounding pixels. Our daughter's wedding pictures were taken using a Minolta D7D, which ...

Well... with 1) a better (sharper) lens, 2) a bit smaller aperture, like one stop down from wide open, and 3) ISO200 and about 1 sec exposure... the picture to start from would be already so much ...

At 1/8000s the shutter has to work flawlessly to have the first and second curtain working in sync to leave a small strip open to capture light. (The whole frame is not exposed simultaneously at ...

That is entirely possible. So it only depends on the body to supply power, not commands to change focus... Without knowledge of the communication protocols there is no way of knowing exactly how ...

My E-M5 and E-M5 II certainly tries to keep the image in focus, with the lenses I owned, including 12-50, 12-40, 40-150 f/2.8 and 7-14 f/2.8. I don't recall what happened with the Panasonic 14-42X ...

What I was saying before is that the test as described here will amplify the focus error present in the image at the widest FL. You cannot expect the image to stay in "perfect" focus (as well as ...

Obtaining a precise focus works best when you are zoomed in, and the camera will change the focus of the lens as you zoom out so that the subject (not moving) stays in focus. It also works the ...

Parfocal means that a *stationary subject*, shot from a *stationary camera position* will stay in focus when you change the zoom. Focus tracking for moving subjects has nothing to do with being ...

I don't believe the 12-50 is better than any other m43 lens regarding this property. All lenses get help from the camera to keep focus distance constant as you zoom,  in all modes. If you want to ...

The lenses have a "table" of how focus changes as you zoom and the camera then gives instructions to change the focus to counteract this. When you focus a lens and then zoom in or out (without ...

Here is an example (taken with the 75-300). You might easily be fooled into thinking this is taken with a rubbish lens, but really it's the turbulent air from the sunlight heating the water of the ...

It's a slow lens so it needs a lot of light (especially at the long end). Pictures taken from a long distance (which is typically what you do with a long lens) often suffer from heat turbulence ...

If you accept its limitations like noisy aperture blades (that do need to open when framing and close when you take the shot) and noisy slow focus motor, and instead enjoy that it is the smallest ...

I got the EM5 in 2012 (tilt screen) and about 5 years later I got a used EM5-II (flip out screen). The EM5-II is better in every way... except the screen. The worst thing about the flip-out screen ...

Lenses sharpen up to about optimal 2 stops down, but on m43 resolution starts going down past f/5.6 due to diffraction. Whether you have an f/2.8 zoom lens, or an f/3.5-5.6 zoom like a cheap kit ...

I use zooms almost exclusively. But these two small primes I just can never sell. The 45mm is a great portrait lens. The 20mm is so compact it helps me take the camera when I just want it in my ...

With a 10mm lens the head of the person on the right (and near the corner) would turn into a conehead, stretched towards the corner. This picture must be taken with the longest possible lens that ...

Most of us can still read, and enjoy reading reviews instead of being forced to watch videos with sound. I may be old-fashioned (and old) but I still prefer a written review that I can read while ...