SilvanBromide

What was wrong with the copy you sent back, Paul?

Less than half that actually. FWIW, it was officially released on 20th September, so it won't reach 3 months until the week after next.

In general I agree with that. I hadn't heard that, specifically, although without knowing which native lenses they were compared to it's hard to say what it means. Certainly there are quite a few ...

I guess it provides another data point or two to consider. As you say, it's peculiar that some of their findings appear to be at odds with most other tests and reviews. In part I think that their ...

No argument about used prices. Umm. Actually, no, not quite. Assuming you're talking about the Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM, it has a reported T-stop of t1.5, so you don't actually get the benefit ...

The evidence suggests that the conspiracy theory cult is not "out there" but right here. It so far has a membership of one, whose forum name happens to be "PhozoKozmos". All up, the theories ...

You should probably pay a visit to the shootout posted last year by Luis Gabriel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox0jnK0D6o0 Meanwhile, as far as whether the differences are worth the extra cost, ...

Having shot with quite a few different systems, I'd say that your first nine bullet points are mostly, if not entirely, bunk. Sorry. (I do agree with the last point, though I question its ...

I went from Pentax to Nikon, then to Canon, then back to Pentax before going to Sony. Menus I liked the least were probably Canon, so I can see what you mean. Sony menus are mostly a bear because ...

Lenses do contribute something to the final look of an image. What they may take away (not transmit to the sensor) can be hard to put back. That said, there are certainly some lenses that render in ...

My thoughts exactly. Looking at the selection of pics, I thought that all the ones in the first group were lit skilfully and creatively, while all the images in the "dislike" group were making poor ...

He is full of opinions. I personally don't agree with more than half of them in this instance. And I'm therefore extremely glad that he is not in fact designing menus, just bloviating on YouTube. S ...

Yes, actually. I did respond. And yes, usability is at least partly subjective.

A good few of those are years out of date and are referring to menu systems that don't resemble those in any of the recent models. A good few of the commenters are people who have come to Sony from ...

That's been about the sum total of my argument, Steve. Thanks for summing it up. Probably. Because it's subjective. And because I'm not suggesting that the over-rated photographer doesn't hate what ...

Well that's OK, then, because the photos I take are only ever a probabilistic approximation of what I was actually pointing the camera at!   ; ) Amen!

I'm in my third year shooting Sony, and had not encountered a lock-up either until just a few weeks ago with the v2.0 firmware installed. As I mentioned, I thought it was perhaps an issue with the ...

I don't agree with you, and I've seen no evidence (and you've offered none) to back up your claim. As for the AF points - that's a slightly different discussion. But it does have a point of ...

Quite the contrary. It's not random. The fact that they may not have put things where you personally would like to see them doesn't mean they didn't have any reason and it was "random". Again, you ...

I don't think anyone has suggested that it's a "figment of imagination". You're again setting up a straw man so you can knock it down. What has been suggested is that it's subjective, that personal ...