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Good points! Thanks for highlighting it!

Hm, I can understand if large aperture lenses exhibit some purple and green borders at extreme contrast edges if shot wide open, but such a colorful mess at 5.6 etc.?
Very unfortunate, I could...

Henning, echt jetzt? Ich meine, was kratzt es die japanische Eiche wenn sich die S4u an ihr reibt, aber. Das grenzt jetzt wirklich an Besessenheit.

thanks for answers. could not find this information anywhere.

I have no experience with pana lenses. Does this mean it has focus by wire and I can just touch the focus ring and it acts as a manual lens? Or do I have to activate a clutch to uncouple it/turn to...

I like that Pentax presented those two totally different lenses. This way those, who complain that they don't bring anything new and just overhaul an old design and those who complain about the...

Instead of Sony Mk1 put 400€ on top and you have a really nice camera with top notch IQ with the Pentax K1

Depends on the question.

okay, I'm probably late to that party.

agreed, but this one is not focus by wire. ignore, if you were saying that this is an advantage of this lens to focus by wire lenses.

They describe also the stepless design to be chosen with the...

Nice page with usage samples
http://www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/english/products/star_lens/special/sp_da11-18/impression/

Now, it does not make sense to argue semantics. However, a third party lens in any system does imply compromises, as there are no support for the whole system/combination from the manufacturer, no...

Right, there are third party options as workarounds for other systems. I'm looking forward of tests to see what a complete new design can bring to the table in 2018.

phantasric is not a made up word, I stand to the intended statememt, phantastic! :)

Finally! The 11-18 looks phantasric, even when on the steep side pricewise. But it is a very special lens, only Fuji offers something similar for APS-C, offering 2mm more on the wide end (but...

Right, and still, Pentax could not do such an advertising campaign because there also the entry level cameras are sealed...
If Canon wanted to communicate that many of their cameras would need...

Sure, and it has to be. Firstly, implied by the intellectual and financial power in the background, secondly, by the fact that the processing power of a mobile phone might be more suited to such a...

Kreislauf, I agree, for this application of course. I just mentioned the context, where also this technique belongs to, computational photography. Fake bokeh, all people have the eyes open at the...

All in all, this reads like a (much more balanced and positive) description of what Pentax has implemented in their latest...

Fascinating. And spooky at the same time. Computational photography offers many possibilities, but it will also lead to the question, what is actually part of the real scene and what computed... If...

Seems like Sony, with the help of gearsites, managed to redefine what photography is, and what can be considered as absolutely necessary and what not. I state it openly, I don't like Sony's ...