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not at all. These were simply lighted by an onboard flash bounced off of the ceiling.

only if you display the image larger or crop more heavily. Borders will be sharper with a 42mp sensor behind the lens if the images are displayed the same

yup, ~12%

Sony owns a good chunk of Tamron, so this may not apply in this case :)

Thanks for the clarification! It is a great relief. I thought for a moment I had invested in a very poorly designed camera.

Since non-Sony lenses such as the Bates and Loxiae and even Canons appears to be allowed, I supppose it is ok for me to suggest this one :)

Through the Sony 85/1.8

there is no FE mount. FE is a lens designation for e-mount lenses covering FF

nikon has not been able to implement a well working live view AF system with their current mount (the Nikon 1 system demonstrated that they know how to if the mount allows for it). I would be ...

I believe Sony e-mount is the most open standard today. That is why we have so many well working adapters etc https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press/201102/11-018E/

They continued the Minolta tradition of making the long lenses white.

I don’t think super fast primes make much sense since some or most of that extra light is lost due to pixel vignetting? (Although I haven’t seen an analysis of this with the new BSI chips)

you may wish to revise your second example 😉

thanks for chipping in. I remember reading some of your comments on the quality of the images produced by the q and wanted to see for my self as it was difficult to find good examples on the www. W ...

It is the impression I get when I read interviews with Sony's senior lens engineer Motoyuji Ohtake. Opto Design Department, Core Technology Division, Digital Imaging Business Group at Sony. Here is ...

Where did you get that information? I’m pretty sure that Sony lenses are designed and manufactured by Sony. Including the Zeiss branded stuff.

this is the full scene as seen by the FF sensor: A fairly tight crop as you can appreciate. I’m fairly impressed by the level of details resolved by the lens at this distance.

correct, except that the q has a 1/2.3" sensor

Like this (PS bicubic smoother)? Here is another set using the Sony 100mm macro and PS bicubic to resample

I know the methodology does not quite live up to the level of this forum, but it was a fun exercise (using Pentax q) which led me to conclude that 5micron pixels are nowhere nearly small enough :) ...