AdamT

I hated those heavyweight NiMh packs , I had to carry a number of them on winter weddings as they lost stamina in the cold being NiMh (the 1DS was a spectacular wedding camera after the D60 and...

yeah that was what I was thinking , 46Mp up to 50mm and 20Mp after that up to "75mm" in APS_C terms same as the long  end of the 16-50

Can`t believe they included the D30 but missed out the 1DS - the first Proper commercially available mass produced full frame camera .... not a Frankencam or bodged up film camera like the prior...

this is the same except that in mine it`s decentering not tilt (only a lower RH corner/edge lambchop shape which stays on the same focal plane as the rest is seen - rather than a whole side off ...

I really REALLY wish lens makers (All of them) would put some effort into getting their assembly lines to put the things together properly , the number of decentered and tilted lenses out there is ...

I`d like to know this too .. edges as well as centre - reviewers seem to obsess with stupid CORNERS which are rarely relevant but never seem to ever mention edges which actually DO matter when ...

The 12-45 is notoriously better at closeups than most Oly lenses :) .. I like the way the 12-40 can shoot everything from portrait and further at F2.8 sharply as it takes away that Flat 1" sensor ...

except that its F1.4 not F4

on an expensive one yes, but not at that end of the price range when you`re mail ordering anyway , if it was £70 premium to cherry pick a good one from a local LCE then YES i`d do it but not ...

Gary you must have had a bad 12-40 because I`ve had three since 2015 and all have been critically sharp from end to end wideopen across the frame . it does depend on distance though, the 12-40 is ...

used Ones are £200 ish at MPB mint barely touched which is the way I`d go easier to swap if I get a dud. the local LCE may get one in as well

yeah I have, I just couidn`t see the point in making it that way in the first place given the little it gains in compactness .... though on Reading KR's post , some like it  :)

I know I`d be getting a 20Mp chunk from the middle of the Z7 sensor instead of the whole thing with the DX lens but I`m used to Micro 4.3 for leisure so not an issue . as the previous posts have ...

that`s good enough for me, FF 10X+ (and some 24-120) zooms were generally comedy optics, right up to & including the Nikon 28-300 (which was better than most) - Mirrorless has definitely changed ...

I`ll be fine with the 24-50 I`m sure, it`ll spend most of its time at 24mm anyway - F6.3 at 50mm I can get away with fine, my original point to Andy was that if its no good wideopen and needs ...

Even My G9 does that but its no where near as bad as the smaller panasonics ,like the GX9, you can`t pick the thing up without messing something up or moving the focus point to the corner of the ...

I just utterly hate that focal length (Prob why there aren`t many of them) . sits badly between 35 and 50 for me to be not as useful as either . IMO a cheap 35 F2 would have been nice instead, the ...

thanks I`d be looking at F6.3 throughout here being dull most of the time here in the UK ;)  .. sounds like its getting the vote anyway .

I need that convenience for hiking, also used them for outdoor events on more than a few work occasions too (various Sigma and tamron DSLR ones which are optically poor but good enough for that) - ...

That`s my idea for it . I have the 24-70 F4 and DSLR glass for work , thought one of these two plus the 24-200 for my hiking shooting (Currently using a Z7 sized Panasonic G9 with the legendary ...