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I think this is being over thought. It's like car manufacturers not putting "Internal Combustion Design" in the product description of all petrol engine cars and people questioning whether it ...

Wow... he knows his stuff and is really creative as well!

Thanks Tony, do you think the gap in BIF CAF performance is insurmountable with the much awaited FW update to the EM1X (and trickle down to the EM1.3)? Is your gut feel that the hardware is ...

Good luck... BTW, the 14-140 Pana is also affected by sample issues... I have one that gets quite horrible on the LHS from 70-100mm. It might not be decentreing as it is quite good if stopped down ...

"The process itself is just as important as the output." That's an incredibly important point that I obviously knew but never expressed... I tend to forget the obvious a lot. Thanks for that. It's ...

The only lens I would be impressed with at f8.0 would be... 🤓

Don must have an exceptional sample... mine was in line with all tests I have seen. Not trash, but not treasure either.

It looks good. It does depend more heavily on software correction than most, but I am OK with that, and it will be interesting to see if a good lens profile and DXO PL 3 Elite with Viewpoint 3 ...

Exactly.

At 400mm, I use f7.1 whenever possible to "clean up" the image a little... I don't find f8.0 helps any further, unless DOF is a priority like when you can get very close (almost frame filling) to ...

Camera bags are notoriously non waterproof... as in very heavy extended rain and overnight sitting on pools of water in a very wet campsite (when water has run into a tent). In the morning, your ...

Correct... and Olympus has a lens IS priority setting in the Menu that either allows a Panasonic lens with stabilisation to work (and IBIS off) or not.  Panasonic lenses with an IS switch, and ...

That's no good... take care and I hope you are back in business soon!

The PD QR plate is a standard Arca Swiss compatible square piece of metal... All other manufacturers use the same concept design. It has to be an EM5.3 issue, not PD. The PD capture clip design ...

Or maybe FW2 for the X.

Ok... I don't know then. Never seen it in my copy. Lens IS was superior to IBIS at 400mm until my EM1X, and then about the same. There have been discussions how IBIS can possibly be the cause of ...

Using a protective filter?

The PL 12mm hood does seem a bit of an afterthought considering the premium nature of the lens. Keep us posted what you find out.

Good stuff! When I converted to digital, I found out that the old film techniques of "focus and recompose" and "hyperfocal set off the lens barrel" (or even other methods using more accurate ...

Wow! Not asking for much are you lol 🤓 Firstly, scratch out any legacy, old lenses... if you want sharp wide open that is. Same goes for any Mitakon. Actually, get a Canon EOS R and RF 28-70 f2.0 ...