tonybelding

As others have noted, Sony was the popular choice because they were first with full-frame mirrorless.  I've used an A7 and A7R II for several years, and by-and-large they worked well. Lately I got ...

My idea is put the camera up on a tall tripod stand (like a couple of meters up) and shoot 360° video of the eclipse. I don't care about getting the sun itself, I have other gear for that. I ...

That's. . . interesting, I suppose, but there's no info.  Just one picture of it.  And from what I see it looks even smaller and less functional than the Q. If the Q came back, I'd rather see it go ...

As I noted, Pentax seem to have a strong aversion to any kind of EVF. If they did go mirrorless (again), I'd prefer the Q system to come back.  I'd like to see a "Super Q" with an EVF and ...

Thanks for posting that!  I like seeing that comparison, because I did at one time own a K-01 and liked it in a lot of ways, but the lack of a viewfinder, any kind of viewfinder, ultimately killed ...

Maybe I should call it "The Late Great 28" since this used to be a popular wide-angle lens back in the film days but seems hard to find new ones now.  IMO it makes a pleasing "normal" lens on ...

A smaller camera with the S1 / S1R quality EVF squeezed into it would be great.  I do love the view through that.

Those computational tricks that phone cameras now use are something I'd like to see migrate back into "real" cameras, especially small-format cameras.  I'd love to see something like the Fujifilm ...

1. Some kind of toy or novelty camera that I played around with, and it sort of worked but didn't prove useful to me. I can't recall the make or model. 2. Olympus CAMEDIA Zoom, 1.3MP. They produced ...

I wonder how many people actually cross-shop these two? I mean, if you want something pocketable, that's the GR series killer feature, and the X100 V-or-VI is not in the running (big coat pockets...

Years have gradually turned me into a viewfinder snob. OVF or EVF, I want one, and I want it to be really good, not just "good enough". I've heard contradicting things about the X100 V's...

Somehow an urban legend got started about CCD sensors producing better colors. Based on experimenting with my ancient Pentax K100 D, I think there's some truth, although it's often overstated and ...

You might also consider (if you haven't already) whether you really want to preserve all those background details.  Blowing out a sky to white, or crushing shadows to black, sometimes can be the ...

The Pentax Q and Nikon 1, at least, were designed—deliberately, I'm sure—to not compete against (or "cannibalize")  the DSLR models from those same companies.  It was the same strategy that IBM ...

I'm planning to keep my Pentax DSLRs around. I was actually thinking of picking up some new lenses for them. I was an early convert and advocate for the EVF. Lately I've backed up just a little. ...

RawTherapee does pretty much everything I need, is free, runs on every platform—including Linux Mint on my Thelio.  It doesn't have any problem reading S1R files.

I picked up the Panasonic Lumix S1R as my substitute for an XPan.  The EVF is outstanding, and the camera can be set to shoot in 65:24 aspect ratio.  I've dabbled with this ratio before on my Sony ...

I guess it's all relative and depends on what you're used to.  It's bigger than the Pentax K-S1 or K-70 or Sony A7 or A7R II body-and-prime-lens combinations that I often carry.

I have one of these.  It's highly versatile.  If I've got it in my hand, I feel like I can get the shot, even if the shot is something entirely unexpected that suddenly popped up.  There's no ...