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I've run into similar exposure fluctuations with the center-weight mode on the a7ii. Bright (midday) hard light with deep shadow areas seem difficult to read consistently - at times. With certain ...

Really? Vintage fast glass is designed to vignette. Old formulas were primarily concerned with a framed sharp center. Vignetting is one way to place attention on the center. Even coma is a design ...

Summicron R 50 and... brick wall.

Irrelevant question perhaps, but who took photos 1 & 4 in the slide show? Photos 1, 4, 5 & 6 (in the slide show) seemed to make the narrative more immediate, to me. Thanks for sharing the...

Brilliant!!! What a clever piece of satire.

Looking forward to the 10 ways to improve your brick walls.

That would be an assumption of practical experience, or practice. However the only offering here is opinion. Opinion based on practice, say two, three, five years with the same lens (with ...

Six months in and things aren't so scary ; - ) Summicron R 50

I'm not sure what in camera file interpolation is, RGB interpolation yes, sensel interpolation yes but in camera file interpolation??!! A camera image processing pipeline works in real time. If you ...

The three Scotties are a probably a trademark by now. I think the OP could use a brownie or instamatic with outdated film and do very well ; - )

It probably comes down to preferences and working the relationship between you and the camera. Optical VF or Electronic VF. There are differences in technique. If you like an OFV go with the 6D. ...

I'd say the ISO difference is less important than the processing difference. The E5 seems to have a little more DR and works with NR somewhat better. But this is a comparison in challenging ...

The dust is likely coming from an external source. The only common element here is legacy glass. Hence it is likely (possible, not absolute) that the dust is coming from inside one or more of the ...

Old lenses might contain dust. Sometimes decades of dust. And not necessarily visible on an element. Do you methodically blow out the mount end of each lens before attaching? The 610 generated dirt?

Five months in, got most of their routine down. Some of the routine is okay. Some of it really needs adjusting. There's still a lot of work to do. They'll get there. Electric blanket. Definitely. ...

I'd be interested in seeing some samples, and hearing a bit more about your workflow! As for lenses with large image circles for the 36x24 format, I would assume (presume?) that legacy PC lenses ...

What it is, apparently is not what I thought, and obviously not that interesting. ; - ) The map attempts to show the chronology of travel routes used through recent history. There is a timeline ...

There's nothing to really be concerned about other than making sure the lens you want can work on the camera you want to use it on, which usually boils down to registration distances and some ...

Reading the inscriptions on the lenses in the photos on CameraQuest show versions I & III (LTM) & IV (M) all with distance scales. As I said, the 40mm Heliar is the lens without the Helicoid.