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Do check front and top view.
'nuff said...

Image quality is not horrible... it's horrible outside their intended scope of operations.
You pay DoF with noise performance, trouble is that to get good noise performance you'd have to go wider...

I have played with TCs, and got nice pics @400mm f/11-16 on APS-C (the FoV of a 600mm on film), and it was not all that easy to keep the ISO low, even in good light. Had a good SR, BTW.

I can't...

@jaykumarr
He obviously meant flying beards.
As in: on a helicopter or somesuch ;-)

@manifest destiny
Judging from the shots in the Sample Gallery, it struggles to resolve 16 MP due to aggressive NR... no way it could resolve 24 MP in a meaningful manner.

Edit: just like...

@TillmanB Ah I see, thanks!

@PhilDunn taking the mirror out of the equation I think the rate of keepers would be about the same - but you'd need a neck strap for "my" method (not actually mine of course)... unsure how it's...

@PhilDunn I thought so as well, but I changed my mind after trying.

In my experience I can go to lower shutter speed with a mirrorless with the strap held taut than with a DSLR held against my...

Since eBay doesn't get commissions on shipping... quite probable actually! XD

Kind of a pity...

I could consider buying one used for pennies, just for curiosity (currently feeling good with another brand, but have no prejudices)
Trouble is eBay listing will probably change...

storta...

@RedFox88 we know that, most of the time we say "Pentax" as a shorthand to say "K-mount".

Using ExiftoolGUI since ages... free, customizable, dependable, can select multiple files at once, can also input directly with the command line...

I'm using a SMC-M 80-200/4.5 in place of a nice D-FA 70-200/2.8*... that should bother me more! XD It's nice in fact... but not so nice that it doesn't swirl. It swirls quite a lot on APS-C as well ...

I spent like 23€ for a 44K-4 in as-new conditions, complete with original caps. 179€ is a bit steep... My Helios is from 1992.

I was looking at eBay dot it, this explains it :) My 44K is reasonably sharp near the center even w.o. Gets good enough from 2.8 onwards I know, I was saying that a Helios 44 makes more sense than ...

Not much cheaper, at least looking at eBay and comparing with what I paid my 44K. Less optical defects is not necessarily good, since those lens are bought for their optical defects. Without, they ...

@marabunta
There's only three of them so far, plus one short feature ;-)

Unsure what you mean by "phone portrait aspect ratio"... my smartphone shoots 4:3 by default, screen is 16:9 and many from the new generations have a 18:9 screen.

Thanks for your reply. Yeah, I had already done something similar for vignetting and daylight WB... An uniformly exposed white sheet of A4 paper says roughly 100 Vignetting 0 Midpoint :-| and a ...