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The law should extend to private citizens as well. Drone fliers are nothing more than voyeurs and peeping-toms with high tech tools. Any drone that comes over my property is going to be skeet practice! 😉

Depth-from-Defocus will be a deal-killer for many. M43 users think DFD is cool because they are accustomed to the hobbled CDAF, but it’s inferior to PDAF and will become increasing so in the future. Too bad Panasonic shot itself in the foot right from the start. Well at least we now know Panasonic FF is no threat to Canon, Nikon, or Sony FF.

It’s only a fast lens to m43 users. In the FF world it is a slow f3.5-5.6 lens which would have less CA and cost less. Yet another reason m43 has no long term future.

Big, heavy and expensive. Chasing a larger format aperture equivalent is a fools errand, and yet another reason to move up to APS-C!

The X-T2 has a feature that can lock the control of your choice, including the aperture. I have one of the camera buttons assigned to this function so I can lock and unlock the aperture without menu diving.

I liked the first image, but it would have been better cropped differently with the subject to the right and the background to the left. In that way the subject has somewhere to place his gaze. The rest of the images are quite pedestrian though which don’t show any composition skills. It’s hard to see how these images could win anyone an award, but we live in strange times where merit often takes a back seat to other considerations, so no telling what the outcome will be.

It is reportedly a Sony sensor.

A nice fixed lens camera worthy of consideration if it were priced reasonably at around $500. At this price point Panasonic must think they are Sony! 😏

You must have gotten a bad copy. My Samyang 12mm f2.0 has acceptable sharpness at the edges on my Fujifilm X-T10 and X-T2 when stopped down to f2.8. and is always very sharp in a large portion of the center area. You can see some examples in my gallery that I shot at a dinosaur exhibit which are camera JPEGs with no cropping or PP.

According to Samyang:
The Samyang MF 85mm F1.8 ED UMC CS is designed with 9 lens elements in 7 groups and it delivers high resolution from the centre to the corners of the image. A high-refractive and an extra-low dispersion element, along with Ultra Multi-Coating (UMC) help minimise chromatic aberrations and deliver clear, vibrant images.

I like that Samsung is now making lenses specifically designed for APS-C mirrorless cameras rather than just putting a mirrorless mount on a huge lens designed for a DSLR (which they had been doing). The 85mm F1.8 ED UMC CS weighs in at just over 300g and measures 8cm long which means it is small and light and should handle nicely on my Fujifilm cameras. I have the Samyang 12mm F2.0 NCS CS lens designed for APS-C that is so sharp in the center area that LensTip scores it higher than the Zeiss Touit 12mm 2.8! Not bad for a tiny sub $300 lens. I hope this new 85mm F1.8 lens delivers similar sharpness as their 12 mm f/2.0 as well.

Short zoom ranges have always been typical with FF cameras. It keeps IQ up and size and weight down. Some of Nikon’s worst FF lenses are in the longer zoom ranges. Example in point is the Nikkor 24-120mm f4 that is so soft above 50mm at f4 that is essentially unusable. Stopping down to f5.6 improves things greatly, but the the question then becomes is whether this is really a constant f4.0 lens or not?

Only Nikon knows the answer to that question and based on past behavior they are unlikely to address that issue. Also based on my experience using the FT-1 adapter with the Nikon One mirrorless system I am convinced that Nikon could disable third party adapted lenses with the FTZ adapter if they so chose and may have even developed a way to stop reverse engineering of their Z mounts with hardware. I know at least one of the firmware updates for the FT-1 adapter disabled AF in some third party lenses, which means buying third party for use on the Z cameras could be very high risk even if AF works initially. Third party lenses are great for consumers, but they have no doubt cost Nikon millions in profits over the years. Somehow I think Nikon has realized that fact and just might want to do something to change it if they can.

Nikon is doing what they need to do to stay profitable. The first Z cameras needed to be dumbed down a bit because in two years when Nikon replaces them with new cameras they need new buyers to have a reason to upgrade. Nikon does not want to sell the Z6 for $2000 and if Sony wasn’t competing directly with them at this price you can bet the Z6 and Z7 would be priced at least hundreds of dollars more. But by being forced by Sony to offer the Z6 at the bargain price of $2000 Nikon will find it difficult to make the high profit margins with mirrorless that they need to stay in business. So it makes good business sense for Nikon to keep their new Z mount proprietary to ensure sales of the new Nikon Z lenses and discourage third party competition, and I don’t think they should be criticized for doing so.
This situation may not make everyone happy, but if Nikon does not remain profitable the Nikon brand could easily end up on the growing scrap heap of now defunct camera companies.

From how the photographer describes the GX9’s auto focus, my old Nikon V1 camera outperforms this GX9 with its superior PDAF even when using a smaller aperture lens.
I find it amazing how tolerant DPR reviewers are of the mediocre AF in the m43 cameras that still rely on CDAF like the old P&S cameras of yesteryear while others are incorporating on sensor PDAF in their mirrorless cameras with far better results. I can’t help but wonder if a DSLR only had CDAF would DPR rate it at even 50%? It’s way past time for DPR to start downgrading their rating of m43 cameras until they get PDAF in them. Come on DPR, this is 2018, not 1998!

Canon has more class than to look desperate for attention.

Dear Nikon,
Please don’t do any more of these pathetic teasers that are reminiscent of your, (now dead) “Key Mission” teasers. Just bring your mirrorless camera (late) to the game, or go home already.

I love the concept of these 1” sensor compacts. It’s almost like having a mini DSLR in your pocket, but that is the rub. Such a small camera will likely find itself in a lint filled and perhaps even dirty pocket instead of a clean dedicated camera bag resulting in a dirty sensor. And then what? You can’t clean the sensor yourself and how much expense and downtime would be involved in sending the camera in for repair. These fixed lens compacts should all have extensive environmental sealing and be clearly stated as such, especially so at these high prices. Until they get the sealing I will have to pass on these otherwise excellent pocketable cameras. Are you listening Sony?

Excellent composition, but I don’t care for the yellow cast in the foliage. I much prefer shades of beautiful green!

I really like what Sony has done for the 1” sensor format with their camera designs and the sensors themselves. This 6th and latest iteration in the RX100 series is a marvel of compactness and performance and will no doubt rival the image quality of the current m43 cameras at base ISO while leaving them in the dust in terms of autofocus tracking of moving subjects. Good job Sony!