Matthias R

It's a pretty standard test, normally performed with birds to establish the aircraft design is indeed able to resist an impact well enough. Kind of like crash test for cars. Must be kind of weird...

An interesting proposition. Manual exposure controls is neat, though the lack of a distance scale is a pity. Rather pretty camera too. But a bit of leatherette would be good.

@ entoman: soviets lenses do that a lot. Pick apart, clean the frozen grease off, put fresh Molybdenum grease instead, and you're good to go for a century :)

The funny thing is, it reminds me of a Kiev more than a Zenit or the Zorki the Zenits evolved from. That embossing on which the Zenit M writng sits looks just like the focus wheel housing on the...

Yup! :)

... and be turned into pancake topping for the bear ;)

Fuji did that when they launched the X100... worked pretty well for them :)

Not a big fan of the 28mm equivalent myself, but I'm not alone on the planet, plus, cell phone afficionads might feel right at home with it. Anyways, APS sensor and actually lighter than the...

Who likes to see people fail? I certainly don't but I'm not surprised either.
A few years ago, looking for a quality camera small enough to be carried around everyday, I considered buying one......

Sounds great, I'll have to try it. The next step would be extending it to include info on the camera for digitalized film pictures.

@ Sunshine7913: yes, but the Sigma is one of these modern lenses which sacrifice light weight for performance. At about 815 grams, it is definitely not in the same class as the Chinon 55mm f/1.4...

Sweet way to start! Maybe one of these days I'll get one of those. Actually found one one day at the flea market but I had already bought a Spotmatic that day and the price was a bit much for my...

When we started expecting top performance wide open? I have a Chinon 55 f/1.4, actually pretty nice and sharp at f/5.6, acceptable at f/2, but at f/1.4, well... in favorable circumstances you may...

Well, I do use CCTV lenses quite a lot - the "Green trim APS-C" sorts are pretty nice indeed, and I'd be quite happy to have the possibility of knowing what lens I used. There are actually little...

And me too!

But normallly one DxO version dosn't kick the orlder one out - at least not on my computers. I installed Photolab a whie ago, but opticsPro 10 and -11 are still tehre and I can run them whenever I...

Well, for one I've never managed to get Nik to work in Lightrooom, and I've hear others with similar experiences. I don't know how the DxO update would work (I've bought DxO photolab and never...

Where? I'm looking at the press releases on their website, but I see nothing recent about viewpoint. Well, I'd be curious but anyways I'd be hard pressed to quote a feature I'd like to see...

The PhotoLab update sounds good, actually addresses a few points I wanted to see :). I wrote them a few weeks ago inquiring about the possibility to introduce image reversal for processing...

Oh my God.... the designers of the original Pentax must be cringing in their graves! But well, at least that Robot Pentax must have a one advantage: you must get a lot of happy faces for portraits!