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Two things: 1)  Swapping brands is expensive and involves a learning time to get to know the new gear inside out. I have swapped brands 3 times during the last 40 years. 2)  Using more than one ...

IMHO a good choice. I only have experience with Sony A7/9 series as far as mirrorless goes but have photographed for more than 50 years with all kinds of gear. If you want to photograph fast moving ...

Using plastic for these heavily loaded brackets seems to be a very bad design decision. But it could have happened to casted metal too. The Chinese giutar maker "Eastman" had big problems with ...

Sonce 2016. Yes. A7S. A7III, A9. Still have them. None. Instead I"m in the process of updating my tripod gear to the Novoflex modular system, which has many tempting options. I am also ...

+1. "If your pictures are not good enough, you are not close enough." (Robert Capa).

Just two examples:...

Also worth mentioning are The Berlebach wooden tripods. Despite the antique looks they can not be condemmed out of hand. They are actually very stable and vibration resistant. The weight is about...

As an earlier poster said, it's worth mentioning the Novoflex Tripod system: https://www.novoflex.de/en/products-637/camera-support-systems/triopod.html
It's designed as a modular system, where...

I first heard the term "color science" used in relation to cameras in a Canon ad in National Geographic some years ago. It's just marketing "New Speak".

You are right. I mixed up the. two. BTW, do you know if the court accepted to take on the class lawsuit. There has been silence the last couple of months. Oh, I definately was lucky too. But a ...

I think that's what most people do. The population who posts regularly here and on other fora is highly selected. How many are there? Some hundred? A few thousands? And these fora are world ...

If you really want to take advantage of the smaller bodies, you should also use smaller lenses and there are not too many of them in the Sony system, unless you want to adapt lenses originally ...

The excitement for the A1 has understandably been overwhelming because it has qualities and properties never seen before together in one camera. But maybe the actual number of users will be quite ...

Another teenie, tiny tele is the Leica M Tele-Elmarit 90/2.8. Great lens. Can be had for reasonable sums (around $500). I have had mine since 1983 and it's still going strong. Watch out for haze ...

ACDSee also does what you want. You can get it in a DAM only version (no RAW converter) or in the full version which works fine as a complete RAW converter and editor. Actually, I guess most, if ...

Exactly.

I have been through many of the replies in this thread, though not them all. If I repeat something already said, I apologize. The OP has tested his lens with test cards at (presumably) a distance ...

I don't see how that should be possible. The menu leaves two options for adjustment in the B&W mode: Contrast and sharpening. Mounting physical filters in front of then lens could be a solution, ...

Very impressive. Swallows move even faster and more erratic than toddlers and we all know how fast they are. When I read the first part of your header, "Swallow BIFs", I had a freudian association ...

That can be done, but the camera has to be set to AutoISO so there's at least one parameter which can auto change to ensure a correct exposure. If you don't do that there's nothing "auto" left and ...