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Looking at the results some entries got 1/2* and 1* votes, wonder why? Anyone who voted with such a low number care to explain the reasoning?

Watch a few youtube videos = instant expert. Not just photography, you can become an expert in anything you can think of just by binging youtube for an afternoon.

Born in the USA In the Ghetto All shook up The beatles have heaps that could be used I want to hold your hand the long and winding road here comes the sun come together the list is endless.

And yet there are still bad copies.....

No it wouldn't cost that to test a lens but going from testing  for example 1/100 to 1/1 testing would be a significant cost impost.  With the current inspection regime that one test cost is ...

Because you and nearly every other consumer would not be prepared to pay the price. Reducing manufacturing tolerances in an industry already working to extreme low tolerances coupled with 100% ...

That adapter is limited to a couple of cameras and not all lenses. Sony also have an order of magnitude more resources than Nikon....

No, it would not be easy...

Lots of Nikons with 16mp, D4/D4s/DF/D7000, lots of coolpix models.

Placed 11^th in the challenge. My grandad competing in a scramble race sometime in the 1950's taken by my grandmother. My grandad was a despatch rider during the war.

Not had any experience with the Sigma but did own the Tamron G2 for a while, I found the AF was inconsistent on the D500, better on my D800 but still missed inexplicably on occasions. Sold it and ...

What's the reason for this, do you have clients that specify certain camera standards?

Good post, I like sports and action photography, giving competitors and participants images of themselves usually makes their day. That is apart from the time I took a shot of my daughter in a ...

If you don't enjoy the process of taking/editing/ and/or the end product yourself there's not much point. Seeing  your gear list it looks like you enjoy the gear more than the photography, you ...

As I said, if it doesn't stifle innovation it normalises it across all brands, reducing differentiation and ending up with a couple of the big players taking out the smaller ones due to their ...

Nice shots, excellent sharpness for that shutter speed. Is that an old Ducati 999?

I understand that but if a manufacturer innovated and needed say another contact on the mount for some fantastic new AF or something, that manufacturer would have to either pull out of the ...

Exactly, what would be the point of a consortium using a set of standards if one of the members could make a change without consulting the others?

Comparing a lens mount to road construction standards is probably the biggest straw man argument I've heard on here, and that's saying something. Road construction is a safety and longevity ...

In what way am I confusing them?