Arcimboldo

Doesn't work with the compensation dial, but I regularly reset to one of my memorized settings via the mode dial.

Why does the Z6 have better build quality than the Z7? Aren‘t they exactly the same?

Edit: Just noticed that someone asked that already. Didn‘t know that that part of the score is also relative...

Well, if this collection shows anything, then that sensor technology is not as important to photographical success as some may think.

Wow, with little exception some gorgeous photographs here...

Actually, methinks it's much uglier than ye olde notch.

LensRentals also had problems with the somewhat weak middle of the GM, although it didn't exactly break in half.

Anyway, why not just not drop the lens? In 40 years of photography I never dropped...

Wow, a damn nice lens, great sharpness, great bokeh, prime quality in a zoom. If I were into the R system, I would strongly consider buying this lens - the only shortcoming (for me) is that it...

Maybe they could have cast someone who looks a liiittle bit more like the man.

Thanks, saw these already – but the one with the waterfall and the plants is even worse. Look at the CA in the corners.

I don't care what the lens looks like, but sharpness of the sample images doesn't impress me that much, no matter whether center, borders, or corners - and I'm not saying that as a Sony owner,...

@RCicala: Smart idea to use the original mount from a real camera – having to pay my cameras with my private money and selling them when I don‘t use them anymore, I wouldn‘t have come up with that...

@panther fan, RCicala: Thanks for your answers!

@RCicala: I fully understand that your blog is just a byproduct of your business, and your writing it is much appreciated. Regarding MTFs, with...

@RCicala: Sorry for spamming, but yet another short question, is exchanging that plate really as expensive as a new lens? I have trouble believing that, and the idea of avoiding a more expensive...

@RCicala: What I'm really wondering about (besides asking myself why Sony made such a mistake in the first place - this can't seriously be about the margin, can it?) is why Sony don't just do the...

@RCicala: Well, this is certainly sobering. However, I haven't found any variance with my specimen over time, despite quite a bit of use, both on a tripod and freehand. Of course, I'm not talking...

But actually, this having been a comment on a teardown, I haven't been writing so much on LR's optical results, but about that 'thin metal' thing that supposedly lets the GM break easily in the...

@panther fan: Your list is revealing, didn't know most of it. But isn't contrast accounted for in an MTF, and that's what LensRentals measures as I understand? Concerning, measured focus distance:...

@ IamJF: Actually, opticallimits.com for example, while not exactly bad, doesn't get all that great results either, compared to the peer group, and in particular they don't mirror my own perception...

Interesting that Lensrentals is unable to do a teardown of a Sony FE lens without mentioning the predetermined breaking point of the 70-200 GM and its general optical mediocrity - must have given...

@entoman: "not very well phrased" indeed, because exactly that is probably not what Mr. Cicala meant to say. The emphasis is much more on "at the rear", the innovation with this lens (and the new...