Douglas F Watt

You only go 'round once, and you don't take your money with you when you go.  If you love photography and great images, you may quickly feel, as I did, that this was one of the best technology ...

Nothing fancy here, just our favorite backyard 'chippie' as my wife calls him.  Very cute little guy, he just has to compete with the squirrels, which my wife calls 'the little f----ers'. Sigma 500 4.5

Those are consistently excellent and many are superb!  Thanks for posting the hi res versions - much appreciated.  Excellent use of distant backgrounds - hard to achieve in many instances.  Really ...

It's every bit as good as all the hype says it is. Although the Sigma 135 maybe a trace sharper, this is probably the best single prime Sony Zeiss has ever made. And it's very fast focusing even ...

Those (the ZA 50 1.4 and Sigma 50 1.4) are the two elite primes at 50mm. There are a lot of tradeoffs , and it might come down to whether H-AF is more important than corner sharpness at wider ...

Used A77ii, no question.

I own both the 35mm 1.4 and 50mm 1.4 Sigma Art. They are heavy, a bit funky in autofocus in low light, and extremely sharp, and with low CA and pretty decent if not stellar bokeh. The Tamron is ...

The unfortunate reality is that 'cheap' and 'wildlife photography' are not overlapping domains.  Big glass means big bucks.  But you do have several less expensive options.  One is the Minolta 500 ...

Could you explain what that might mean? Have you checked the aperture mechanism?  If it's sticking that might explain that you are describing. This sounds like a defective lens.

I find it useful at least some of the time. Don't know about others experience on that point.

It's not worth getting into the question of what sort of 'look' that you like, all but if you're interested in a professional type body, the Sony A 99 II has it all over the E-mount bodies in my ...

That doesn't sound remotely like a standard Tamron issue. I've got a bunch of Tamron lenses and they all work quite nicely. I would try the lens on another a mount body. New equipment so it's hard ...

I bet you're getting a lot done with Brody around :-D

I've shot several sequences of moving cars, coming fairly directly at me at ~35mph, from about 150 yards to about 35 ft, got 85+% in good to excellent focus.  That satisfied me.  Used EFS, AF-C, ...

+1 on all that. The Sigma 8-16 also works nicely on the A99ii if you want to do cropped 4k wide angle video, or UWA 18MP stills - perfect for creating those 15-20mm equiv. indoor perspective shots ...

you mean like the LCD on the A99ii?

What? What are you talking about??

You've been pounding this nail for a long time.  There is no proof that Sony can't do two mounts - and the success of a99ii in the context of the success of E mount suggests that they can. The ...

I'm curious Jacky, with your deep knowledge of all things Sony, if you see any signs that Sony will update the tele primes, provide an UWA prime and generally support updates to the lens ecology ...

In time, for sure.  But the future is now.