Chris2210

It's refreshing to have a civil conversation about these things without descending to civil war.

I think we all agree photography is a marriage of the technical and the artistic.

Reasonable...

@dr noise

While 'interesting' images can be achieved with a pinhole camera those 'qualities' would quickly become boring to a modern photographer and audience.

The pursuit of technical excellence...

My experience is mostly limited to UK and US sites. With a few exceptions the ones I use have a pop up with the cookie policy on fresh visits. If you dismiss that and do nothing, you get the lot....

@ Stefan Hundhammer
"A 2 years warranty where after 6 months you as the consumer have to prove that it's the maker's fault, not yours? Did you ever see that working in real life?"

I don't know...

My experience with most sites is that if you click the option on select cookies the default is to reject all but the strictly necessary ones.

Wait - you haven't done that?

Why are they 'brain dead'? If you want websites to be able to track your every move on the internet that's up to you. I usually select necessary cookies only.

Apple themselves make a big thing of...

You can pick up the f2.8 (new) for a grand or less. I can’t see this lens being launched at less than that. I did already make the point it will be smaller and lighter. As for not getting any...

What are the odds this new 40-150 'Pro' zoom will be launched at a similar price to the excellent 40-150 already available a stop faster?

I've little doubt it will be a sharp lens and more compact...

You're right - no one else is likely to be in the least bit interested in this exchange - even it seems, ourselves.

The point is, for the purposes of this comparison, when resized [which is the entire purpose of the article] at ISO 102400, the A7rIV image is clearly noisiest - which gets in the way of detail in...

Which algorithms introduce additional noise and why do you think they've been chosen by DPR?

There’s no indication any algorithm is used in downsampling. You’re using that assumption to infer an algorithm is applied that actually results in more noise than straightforward binning that...

Incidentally - this is a very minor caveat to the video, not a fundamental criticism.

If I were given the choice between a high resolution sensor and a lower resolution one, all other things...

@tozz
You seem to be looking at a different test image to me - I see very marginally more detail in the A7sIII than the A1 @ ISO102400. Not a huge amount, but I think it's there.

It is very...

Let's forget about the margin or rim issue - it's virtually negligible.

So consider this as a thought experiment. You have just four buckets, each 2.5m square, butted up precisely. Now you have...

Not necessarily - there are other factors. Very good IBIS is useful in certain low-light situations where motion [subject] blur is not an issue, or even perhaps desirable. You can also more or less...

@badi
Yes I did say "the difference is not so significant".

But the link you've provided bears out what I said - at the very highest common sensitivity setting [10,2400 in this case], there's more...

In the case of our sensors the difference is not so significant because algorithms are there to average out each sample; and what we're interested in is the picture, or local detail, at each site...

Certainly [and pretty obviously] the most important thing about overall noise is the area of capture rather than the pixel density. But isn't there one caveat to that? Actually perhaps two - one of...

Remember to take your coffee cup out of this before inserting the lens. This may otherwise result in damage to your 400L 2.8, not to mention loss of your mochaloccha double frappacino.