Gerald Brooks

Got one to put on my recently purchased Craigslist a7rII.  Thanks for the heads up!!! Sold my Canon 35mm f2 IS, so I hope it is good.  I'll shoot with the Sony 28 if there is a need for f2. Gerald

Maybe there is a similar phenomenon with the Canon 10-18?  I really wanted to like mine, but after seeing the results with the Samyang 12mm, now I can hardly bring myself to want to use the zoom ...

Canon 400mm f5.6 and MC-11 on a6300 - Black Point, Honolulu

I guess it is a fair question at what point is it necessary to cover all focal lengths and minimize changing lenses, versus pushing the limits of image quality. A Canon 400mm f5.6 and MC-11 could ...

Yes this is the ultimate logical future for the OP's question - BIF with phone.

I have to guess that a benchmark of Canon 400mm f5.6 on recent Sony APS-C is somewhere in the +/- image satisfaction area of  the Olympus 300mm f4 on the best smaller sensor, and no doubt both of ...

Thank you for the thoughtful response.  Sometimes in shooting with good gear for wildlife, I have an addiction to show the most finest detail on the screen.  And there are other times when ...

Yeah I was wondering about the variety of things people saying.  Have the MC-11 and Canon 70-200 f4 IS on the a6300 and that combination is awesome IQ AF IS, but not long enough.  I think with a ...

All true except at the long end such as wildlife, and maybe the cost of alternatives to the Sigma 16.

Sounds about right.  Then 24-105 FF against 18-135 crop has interesting pros and cons.  I have a Canon 24mm f2.8 IS and I wonder how that compares on the A7II against the Sigma 16 on the a6300.   ...

So nice!

Just a rhetorical question - cropping too tight? Gerald

Looks like somebody needs to swoop in and defend the 16-50 kit lens.

Thanks for posting this.  The review seems to confirm that the 18-105 is not so great wide, and the 18-135 is not so great long.  Therefore, need both or neither.  Sony knows its specifications ...

These look really nice to me! Gerald

With MC-11 adapter, for reasons of cost, IQ, AF, IS: Canon 24mm f2.8 IS, 35mm f2 IS, 40mm f2.8 STM, 50mm f1.8 STM, 70-200mm f4 L IS, 400mm f5.6 L. Would keep a 100mm f2, but that would be in ...

Style points for the nerdist slant in the use of orthogonal.

Maybe compare it to 18 on Canon 10-18?

I always thought my 18-105 was more like 19 versus the 16-50 and Sigma 19.  Not done scientifically.

On the other hand, 16mm is good for APS-C, but a lot different than 24mm.  When 24 composition is not wide enough, I'm usually thinking shoots, how about 21, not all the way to 16.  Too narrow ...