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Different cameras, different strengths, but I don't find the AF difference quite as stark as you portray here, except in extremely low light, perhaps. Can you not simply increase the ambient or ...

Haha, I think "insight" gives me too much credit. It's more like "stumbled upon"... :-) Yes, sometimes the gap in the middle around 90mm can be difficult to frame with either lens. Too much crop ...

Thanks for that detailed narrative reply Joger. I enjoyed reading it. Answering a couple of new points you raised... This. Gear matters! Despite what I said in the first post, I would probably ...

I hope to use this functionality when my A1 arrives. If it works, it relieves me of several hours of drudge, effort and "dead time" per week. Every single week! Question is: which flashes can keep ...

Back in the old days, when CCD sensors were the thing, you used to choose how many dead pixels were "acceptable" and pay accordingly for that copy. So if you wanted one or fewer dead pixels, you ...

Indeed, we can. But we generally don't appreciate faceless, corporate stonewalling when we want information either. The dealers do their best, but how can they help when Sony won't even tell ...

It's crept up on me, but I just realised I choose 35GM (on A7riv) paired with 135GM (on A7rii or A9) in every two-body situation where I'd have only chosen the two GM zooms in the past. Every ...

The mega-diffuse light reduces contrast and saturation quite markedly (a good thing as that's the point of it - to subdue or remove high-contrast specular reflection). I just didn't do much to ...

Ah. I didn't realise landscape was such high priority for you from your first post (it was ranked, apparently equally, with street and other things). So while everything I said about A9 stands, ...

Considering only resolution, It would be easy to argue that A7riv would be a better fit than the A9 for landscape. Less so for street maybe. But... You clearly considered resolution and (for ...

Thanks. That's a very big question. Simplifying most of it for brevity, the image is a focus stack shot using an automated, motorised rail and processed in Zerene stacker. That part is as routine ...

I ordered a couple of weeks ago - expecting a long wait (months?) but hoping for less. I'm more interested in which end of that scale things might lie now. So I asked everyone I know that might ...

Very nice stack - and a good healthy number of frames as well - which I like a lot too. I manage "OK" with simple hand-held stacking for macro in the field (little choice). It's at much smaller ...

I use my rii less for "normal" grab n go photography. R4 or A9 wins that choice.Unless they are tied up on a microscope or macro rig where the rii usually lives now (to use one of their 'key ...

Yes, I would like focus bracketing, but it would need to be bat-fast to be most useful to me. None of the fiddly set beginning, end and steps malarky. I'd particularly like a simple mode where ...

Mine's a spare card holder.

So am I. Now ;-)

I clearly see the random "patches" of blur. Given the focal length and distance to the subject over water, I'm 99.9% certain you're seeing the effect of atmospheric turbulence (heat shimmer). It ...

Thanks for that. I've partially answered my own question now. Photolab 4 does have an option to set how many files can be processed at a time (presumably this applies to conversion and denoise on ...

I recently got DxO PureRAW after dropping Prime years ago (because of their studio environment lock-in). I love the new plugin aspect with conversion, lens correction and denoise even better than ...