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To be fair I think there's a combination of focus error and motion blur in the OP images, but without tuning out motion blur first, we don't know exactly how much of that is focus error. Also, ...

For the last couple of years we've been seeing a lot of enthusiastic mirrorless evangelism in the camera industry press/editorial and forums, and with that often gross exaggeration of the ...

I think the telling phrase from the link is the idea of “subject separation not being as crisp” think about what an “Unsharp” mask is doing. You’re deleting information from the file to increase ...

You maybe doing something wrong then.  Adding noise is not going to help approximate the look of a lower resolution sensor.  If carefully masked and blended in you could make things more film like ...

Photographers sometimes have a habit of ascribing magical qualities to one piece of equipment or another, which is entirely understandable since often the artist is going by feel, less interested ...

I have owned and used extensively all of Nikon’s 70-200 f/2.8 s. You can get great images from all of them. The FL is the sharpest - by far, especially in the middle ranges - and the least quirky. ...

Let’s not forget the OPs original concern, but let’s clarify it too.  It's just the same old question of buy now or wait.  The mount for which the lenses are specified is an irrelevant ...

Looks like you have the wrong hood connected

I think the Z7 is quite a strong entry into the high end compact full frame ILC segment. It has, at the moment, just enough native lenses to sell it into that space. Alone, or with the adaptor, it ...

Sorry. I was just sort of reacting to the climate of Nikon/f-mount hand wringing that mushrooms out of control on these fora from folks ready to pronounce the death of one product line or another. ...

And almost without exception all class leaders.  Hardly signs of an outdated platform. Yep.  If they didn’t update a single F mount design for the next five years, they’d still be current. For some ...

I agree, in many cases DSLRs are a better choice in general.  It's not mere inertia that keeps them popular. I however am hugely skeptical of the claims of better lenses for mirrorless cameras, ...

F mount makes the most sense for today and any dual system (F and Z) users. They will be the only lenses that work with an OVF.  On that basis alone they would be my first choice, particularly for ...

What, the greasy guy with the fedora didn’t make you want to run out and buy all of Sony’s latest stuff?

The newest most modern lens of your choice, and a book about lighting and exposure.  You can start with Light,Science,Magic.

He does, and the best pop comes from the most modern lenses with the best coatings and the most elements.

Then get the newest best corrected lens - it will be the least "flat" because modern coatings and better correction give it the best detail and contrast. This nonsense about 3-D pop is just ...

It's maybe not that risky to do APSC and 4433. I've decided I'm going to start calling it that, since it's really a sort of quasi-MF. More of a plus size 135, than a traditional medium format. At...

Why Canon changed their mount is because the breech lock systems and mechanical linkages they were using were overly fiddly to attach/detach. By contrast, Nikon's simple bayonet required no trip ...

Is it safe to say that in the earliest days of AF, Minolta had AF that actually worked? And may Canon and Nikon, not so much.  Canon seems to get their stuff together a little faster than Nikon.  ...