RaymondR

Will continue to shop there for as long as I am buying Camera stuff

Thanks - used the Panny Lumix 100-300 at about 275 for this image as the only way to get the angle I wanted was from across the pond, no way to get close enough with anything shorter without ...

the fixed aperture 70-200 zooms you refer to are within the ratio of zooms (less than 3x) that don't require so much compromising -- the 45-200 you desire is outside that ratio. there aren't many ...

something like this maybe?  not sure it meets your weight carrying needs, but if it doesn't Sirui probably has one that can carry a bigger load (albeit a more expensive model). https://www.bhphotov ...

Samyang makes a 100mm 2.8 macro with an m4/3 mount (efov 200mm).  Its big so that runs counter to the smallness preference of the OP, but the fact is there are LONGER macro options in m4/3 than ...

I don't think you get it.  I left Nikon DX for m4/3 at least in part because Nikon was (and mostly still is) slow as molasses in developing and releasing DX lenses.   From the comments I see on ...

I don't think this is entirely it or even partially it for some of the posts that have prompted your post.  I think for many of them it is the deeply misguided notion that a no frills camera will ...

This building has just been sold and is due for renovation.  Here is the main light fixture hanging over the center of the main auditorium, taken from directly below.

Torpedo Tube No. 7, After torpedo room, USS Cod Memorial, National Historic Site, Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland Metroparks Zoo

you have identified the major issue I have with using a cellphone as a camera for anything other than occasional photos -- battery power.  this is the major constraint on the cell phone's complete ...

if he is inclined to go this route, he can get a brand new a5000 kit from BH for $379.  With the collapsing zoom it is ridiculously small - comparable to the other choices the OP is looking at ...

a few more from a recent trip to Europe Water spout, Font de Sant Jordi, In the Cloister of the Cathedral of Barcelona Statuary in L'eglise de La Madeleine, Paris, France Altar, L'eglise de la ...

Steps from the Sanctuary of Martyrs in the crypt of Cathedral di Santa Maria, Cagliari, Sardinia La Paix du 1815, Antoine Etex, Arc de Triomphe, Paris, France Likeness of Ramesses II, from his ...

Immortality Prevailing Over Time Harmony Triumphing Over Discord