speculatrix

actually, many young people only think about whether a device is an Apple (iphone or pad) or a Samsung or other big name. It's unlikely they could explain anything specific technical difference...

I think something went wrong with the hotshoe.

Ending a sentence with "Period" doesn't mean you're correct, it suggests you've made up your mind right or wrong (in this case you're wrong) and aren't prepared to discuss it.
So why bother to...

all images are copyrighted. sometimes it's hard to tell who controls the copyright, either because the image never had a copyright watermark or meta data, or because the intellectual property...

ah, Jacques Cornell, the megapixel myth.
there's no point in having more pixels than the resolving power of the lens, which is a function of the lens' diffraction limit.

but you also have to consider whether you want torque or power

its all about the distance between camera and subject and not about the lens in use. changing the lens allows you to change the distance between camera and subject.

No, if you don't move the camera, the scene it can see doesn't change, you just select more or less of it according to sensor size and lens field of view

yes, but that's just cropping.
the scene in front of the camera is not affected by the lens magnification/field of view. by changing the sensor size or lens focal length you just choose how much of...

A corollary of this is that the perspective in a photo is not about the sensor size!
It doesn't matter if you have a phone camera with a tiny sensor or a medium format sensor camera, if they're the...

No mention of licensing fees, patents and other proprietary lock-ins?
Before I even went near a standard like this I would ask some intense questions about licensing - pay for encoding, pay per...

yes, if you mean "full frame" is where the image capturing device (whether film or digital sensor) is the same size as the final print, this is indeed full frame.

you mean like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Long_Baseline_Array

finally, someone worthy of the term "full frame sensor"!

howdya feel now, all you camera snobs with your tiny 35 mm sensor DSLRs?

:-D

@Sion H, yes, and animal welfare regulations are being rolled back.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-usda-withdraws-animal-welfare-regulation-organic-farms/story?id=53745900

I've had a few Sony products which need out of warranty service, and they basically say "send it in and we'll assess it and charge for that, then we'll tell you how much to repair it, and you can...

In my experience Sony are good at design and manufacture

Their after sales service is poor, and if your unit fails out of warranty you're going to have a big expensive problem getting it fixed in...

Here in the UK there's a lot of fear that a trade feel with the US will cause a significant erosion of our high standards of farm animal welfare.

PETA may have started out with good intentions but there are so many terrible stories about them that I think a lot of support for them has disappeared. This might have less to more extremist...

I think sensor improvements are slowing, we're seeing low light performance gains slowing down. Resolution is probably as good as it needs to be. Lenses seem to be only changing slowly, but I think ...