pictureAngst

...unless it's a full frame DSLR, in which case everything's normal.

If that's the sound your shutter makes, you need to get your camera serviced.

Absolutely - imagine the embarrassement when you've set up your burger bounce box only to remember you no longer have a pop-up flash!!!

@grock - like it!

KFC would do a whole YouTube marketing campaign off the back of it - imagine a chorus of Travolta impersonators singing 'Greased Lighting'....

I'm waiting for the Burger King fanboys to start ranting.

Not to mention the KFC trolls - stand by for their usual my-14-piece-buckets-better-than-a-Gary-Fong rubbish.

Don't do it straight away in haste - give yourself time to reflect.

Just to help clarify further...

dslR = Reflex = concatenation of Reflection = reflecting all light into VF prism
dslT = Translucent = partially reflecting light into VF prism

@SRHEdD or configure a button for the DX Crop mode and get the same reach and almost the same res without carrying 2 bodies?

I had a premonition of someone in a secondhand camera store of the future staring at this case and scratching their head - "so who was the 100th Ann and why was she so important?"

Could be a catchy marketing phrase there...

"12 shots, Zenit stops!'

Putting a hugely expensive camera and lens in hold luggage without adequate protection?

Result: Photography Darwinism in action.

Great shot! One thought - this would look awesome in black and white - like this... Just a thought.

@osv it's not just New York - I got stopped taking pictures when I visited a Swedish nudist beach once.

Madness!

If there is an elephant, can someone please take a photo of it, preferably with that cool Minolta boxy zoom, so we can all be distracted back onto DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY discussions.

I know litigation is more common over in the States compared to other places (or at least more commonly discussed) but do we really need to read about it on DPReview? Seems really tenuous, or is...

@Mike Fewster, I'd heard through the grapevine that Sony choked Minolta's supply of DSLR sensors for the original Dynax 7D after Minolta tried to use another sensor supplier for their smaller...

I on the other hand do take photographs*, so I can fully appreciate the turmoil and angst that us true artistes must endure in our noble yet lonely pursuit of perfection.

(*not too many photos...

I suspect the 80% of forum contributors who analyse, collect, argue passionately in support of, and then replace equipment without actually taking photos are looking blankly at this video.

"Product development isn’t about virtuous engineers who create lovely things and evil marketing people who take them away. It’s usually a back-and-forth to create models that suit a specific...

US Army Research Lab Expert: "...so there you have it Sir, you can program these 'drones' to do all manner of advanced operations, from carrying supplies to our special forces out in the field, to...