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Thank you for your considered reply. This better explains your view. My experience is people like the blurred background, especially with the 58 1.4, which I don't have any more and replaced by ...

Are you saying your clients ask for non-blurred backgrounds or does the issue of background not come up?

old ratter. Z7 14-30.

Water, not hard ground.  Bought an Olympus Tough for under water snaps on a trip to the Caribbean. It had a two-slide system for opening the memory card compartment with the slides at right angles ...

I went to a bar with friends after a day of shooting. I placed by D4s with 35 mm on the bar. Did not realize it was slanted toward me (nonstandard in my experience). I noticed it sliding just as ...

Still trying to figure out how to use the 50 1.2 S under f1.8. Focus hunting sometimes when @ 1.2/1.4 with Z6 and7.

50 1.2 S. Z7

The 28 1.4e is my remaining non-S lens. Nothing like it, yet, in the S line up. But I am seriously considering selling the 28 to get the 50 1.2 after buying the 50 1.8 S. I had moved away from 50, ...

Mine did the same thing. Had for 15 years.  Sat unused for several year and when I tried it - cloudy and black bits in the lens.  Went into the garbage. A shame because was an easily portable 180/2.8.

Well done.

Have gone all Z except for 28 1.4 E. But pre-mirrorless: 35 2.0 D when I had a D4s and Df. Mini-pano sufficed for wider. Not the sharpest lens, but I liked its look. 2nd place:  85 1.4

Hope to read similar for Nikon Z...

Live events, sports, my dog running in a field. 200 was not long enough. 300 would have been better for me.  But use case not there for me despite liking the long lens every now and then.

I bought and sold the 70-200 2.8 twice and (ugh) am thinking about the 70-200 2.8S. But when I think about it, I only took it out on rare occasions. I was not a fan of the 24-70 range in F mount, ...

Nikon Z6 58 1.4 @ 1.4 Messing around with DXO B&W.

Needless to say, I should refrain from posting orthogonal comments in these forums. And it goes without saying I, well, I won't say it. Cheers.

It's a fine figure of speech. The prof achieved his goal because his comment stayed with me long after whatever the course was about or what his name is (was). Funny the things one remembers.

Thanks.  Quite helpful.  I assumed there was variability, but it is never reported.

Not trying to create doubt. Trying to understand the meaning of the test and the significance of a difference in values. Significant difference has a particular meaning to me. Numbers can be ...

An aside.   Decades ago one of my university English professors chastised a classmate for saying, "needless to say". He said, If it is needless to say, DON'T SAY IT!  I was (am) a research nerd, ...