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I would call that "fair" but not good /very good so certainly not near mint. You can see by the wear on the aperture blades that it has done a lot of work. This does not mean it will not work, it ...

BTW, since this is your first post and so you could be new to the forums, you might get the impression reading this thread  that you are not allowed or should not read previous comments before you ...

Most here are over 18, in fact most have been 18 four or five 5 times already, so you can use the correct word for it.

Yes , you got it . Way ahead of its time !!! Shutter speed selection I= 1/50th B for bulb (long exposure)

Mind you, we don't know if the company (Red) is making money or not. The founder sold his previous company, Oakley, in 2007 for 2.8 billion dollars. That was 2 years after he started Red. How much ...

You need to use iZoom (12 MP) to go to the up to 48x zoom. I just realised they call it EZ on that one...

Here is another "it sounded like a good idea at the time" design https://www.dezeen.com/2010/08/18/periscope-camera-by-yaniv-berg/ I wonder why it never materialised ... ( try to imagine taking ...

yes Photura or Epoca in the Asian market. Also called Autoboy Jet ( I guess in Japan ?) But it had a largish handgrip on the side

No they have been reading comments here (Open Forum) about "why manufacturers don't make cameras like..." and took them seriously.

Embarrassed is not even close to it. Totally mortified would start to give an idea of how I felt when it happened to me. I find it deeply painful just to think about it even now , decades after it ...

yes, I see. Alternating Current , also known as electricity.

Papparazzo was the surname of the photographer in the Fellini film La Dolce Vita. (Fellini made that name up using the sound that a mosquito makes) . BTW, papparazzo for one , papparazzi for a ...

you are not kidding about the ergonomics but with a little help... I wonder how many birders have adopted that AO 1 thingo ? yes and those are availiable for small sensors , I have not seen a tele ...

That is exactly what happens often enough here when folk think they have a very easy solution that manufacturers have not thought of (apart from those convinced that manufacturers deliberately ...

I see your problem now. If you read that thread again you will find that the pirate photo was posted about how people don't hold a spotting scope , the way that pirate does...(they use tripods, ...

Going back to sensor size, forgetting the ergonomics for now, this is the Zuiko 300mm f 4 for the MFT system note that it is f4 and not a zoom. So how are you going to get a fast but compact zoom ...

and how is that related to ergonomics ? (the handling of those lenses)

The AV1 was the entry level camera for Canon and the smallest body , along with the same sized AT1 , they had at that time . BTW, the AV1 was the first Canon to have aperture priority only mode. ( A ...

When you increase the sensor size, you will increase the lens size. If there was a way to make a compact , say, 50-600mm lens with a wide aperture for an MTF sensor, it would exist already for one ...