Bob Janes

But surprisinglty enough, not from Sony shooters. The Sony A-mount cameras borrow heavily from the old Konica-Minolta ergonomics, which is where those teams came from 10-plus years ago. The E-mount ...

A highly respected jpg engine and RAW file format (not that there is anything wrong with Sony's jpgs or RAW format)

I think Olympus and Panasonic were there first.. I don't think the width of the mount is a restriction on IBIS - for IBIS the image circle stays where it is, it is the sensor that moves under it, ...

The EVF/OVF thing is so much down to personal preference. As far as some is are concerned the electronic option already shows benefits over OVF, lag is not an issue for me. As far as entry level ...

A while ago, my Dad was reminicing about being in a REME workshop during the Korean war - they used to get Super Ikontas in for repair...

I decided to look around for a copy and eventually found...

Have a look at that Sony top left. Notice where the sensor/film-plane is relative to the overall depth of the camera. Now, if Sony need to put all of that room behind the sensor, why would Nikon ...

..oh and possibly about as advanced as any 35mm SLR ever got, the Minolta Dynax/Maxxum/Alpha 7..

OM1 is great, as is Minox 35, don't forget the Olympus Trip either...

Other rangefinders to consider are: Minolta HiMatic 7sii, Konica Auto S3 (the last two very nearly the same camera, but with...

I think you are being a little optomistic about the depth of the body - there is not reason why it should be any thinner than the thinnest of the current dSLRs, as you still need the distance ...

If you are a member at Dyxum, put links to your kijiji and craigslist up on their external sales sub-forum (but make sure you read their sales rules first) - still lots of A mount people there (as ...

1. Subject selection 2. Composition 3. Exposure triangle 4. Lighting

A change of perspective can be interesting.

The Rangefinder Konicas were always rather fine - I still have a little Auto S3, which has a sweet little lens... But my own first camera was the SLR Konica of about the same vintage, the 'Built ...

As with so many pieces of software, you need to work with it and there is a learning curve. I used to work in Project Management and most people I knew would curse MS Project because it somethimes ...

For me it was getting rid of restrictions - I wanted to use some of the MF lenses that had too small a flange distance and could not acheive infinity focus on a DSLR. The other advantages (such as ...

For ease of use I use lightroom 5, although I get better results from DXO Pro 10 (but it is significantly slower).

By the time you get out to 50mm, there is not a lot of size advantage in only covering the APS-C image circle, which is why the e-mount 50 and 90 lenses have the bigger coverage. This is similar ...

No pictures?

The whole E mount spec is available from Sony for commercial bodies on request. Sigma produced a few direct E mount lenses early on, but not much since, but a lot of smart adapter makers have used...

Frankly the degradation caused by some dust on the front element is so small in most circumstances that it makes sense not to clean the front element so much if you are at all concerned about ...