Jonathan Mac

I initially thought that spider was about five feet long...

The other real competitor with these cameras is "any other compact interchangeable lens mirrorless camera with a small prime". In my case it's an X-T20, or X-M1 if I want smaller still, that I can...

Looks like yet another amazing prime from Fujifilm. I wish I could stretch the budget to one of these but I'll need to stick to my Viltrox 23/1.4 which is also very, very good.

I have two Yashica Mat 124Gs and they're wonderful. I'd love a slightly faster lens and a faster max shutter speed but the 124Gs are a pleasure to use and produce great results.

From what I remember, you have a decentred copy.

Wow, that's proper old-skool. Even down to the multi-coloured aperture markings.

Ignore the older lenses with SDM, the original 16-50/2.8 and the 17-70/4, as they are prone to SDM failure and the 16-50mm is optically poor. If you want to keep things fast (f/2.8) then you have ...

Excellent for identifying lens caps. For identifying lenses, not so much. Fail.

But they have said that they're looking at introducing lenses for the X mount and their APS-C primes would be the logical ones to start with.

Hopefully they'll include X-mount versions of their fast APS-C primes.

I wonder if they'll continue to supply the standard X-T3 or if this is the beginning of a move away from separate chargers altogether.

Looks like the expected very high image quality, especially noticeable at higher ISOs. Glad to see that the DPR team got some of the very best lenses to test the camera with too.

I use film and have a number of cameras, mostly SLRs. The price of good used gear (and film!) has risen a lot in the last few years as people get interested in film again. If it ever gets to the...

I think I'd have preferred to move the 50 to 55mm rather than change the 40mm, which is a focal length many people like. 55mm is great for a standard prime that's a little long, to use for...

Honestly I think these are the first lenses that make me take interest in the Sony mirrorless system. It's great to see the market providing smaller primes with slower max apertures but still with...

40mm is quite a traditional focal length for pancake primes - Canon have one, Pentax have done two, Konica, Minolta... so perhaps there's something about that focal length that makes them easy to...

I wonder if he knew what the mode dial does.

Yep. Need to make sure that the bellows are intact and that the lubricant hasn't seized up.

The best way to experiment in MF without spending a lot of money is to use an old folding camera. Metering, and probably focusing, will be more difficult and may need other equipment but if the...

Typo in the blurb on the main DPR page (but not on this one):: "their" --> "they're"