cptobvious

I had a layover in Beijing several years ago. We had to go through customs and security despite being there only several hours. They had a policy of having to take out all of your camera gear and ...

The quality has definitely gone downhill with the cost-cutting. My recent experience adding a second E-M10 II: 1st camera: Info button not working properly (have to press hard to register); ...

Olympus has been sitting on their laurels for the entry to mid cameras for a while now while their competitors have released cameras in their lines with competent AF tracking. I posted this on ...

Thinking about this again, realistically Ricoh is in a pretty bad situation financially and cameras are just a blip in their overall picture. They’re not going to spend the money to redesign the ...

It would be nice (but highly unlikely) if they made two versions. One with the current retractable lens design for those who value ultimate compactness, and one with a fixed protruding lens (ala ...

I’ve been on the fence myself about ordering the F. I’ve owned the original and the S and while Fuji seems to have addressed the biggest drawback IMO of the original cameras (slow AF speed), there ...

Just want to say thanks to LensRentals for doing these tests on MFT lenses. There hasn’t been testing released publicly with any level of rigor close to this in the history of the mount (which is ...

I was in Japan in late 2016 and camera gear was more expensive across the board than in the U.S., even taking into account tax refunds and Visa credit card discounts. Most of the eBay gear comes ...

My first Olympus Outlet purchase a few years back was similar. I ordered a silver E-M5 and it arrived with dents and grime all over the body. Since then I’ve ordered maybe 7-8 items from the ...

It’s funny, the Supreme Court case (Leegin) that brought us UPP pricing everywhere (which was decided down ideological lines, with the conservatives in the majority) was for a small business ...

Since this discussion has moved to UPP, one thing I am curious about is how retailers manage inventory in the UPP age. Take, for example (since this is the Nikon FX forum) the D610. It’s ...

MFT is probably the ‘easiest’ of the ILC formats I’ve shot with: -Lightest/smallest (of those still being made) -Most effective IBIS for Olympus (little handholding training to get a good shot) -Li ...

From my perspective, I don't think NIkon's problems are their products, per se. I mean, Canon is eating Nikon's lunch and Canon's cameras are technologically worse by a generation or more. I think ...

I've owned my copy of the 15/1.7 for over a year now, and previously owned/tried 3 other copies of the 15/1.7. I can say that none of the ones I've tried are sharp corner-to-corner. My experience ...

It may have been the case when this lens first came out. My first copy (when they were made in China) was sharp from wide open. When I rebought a MFT system several years later, I had to go ...

Nikon’s BF ad is up: https://slickdeals.net/blackfriday/stores/nikon/adscans/47651/ They are running the same D750 deal as earlier this year: body/grip for $1500 or body/grip/24-120 for $2000. No ...

My personal experience with sharpness and this lens: I bought the 45/1.8 about 4 years ago when they were made in China. My copy was sharp with no issues. I sold it when I switched systems. Later, ...

Lightroom is a mature product and the significance of new features decreases with every iteration. Going to subscription-only mode is basically Adobe’s (very successful) way of suckering users who...

My experience is that a higher percentage of MFT lenses I’ve bought are decentered compared to other mounts I’ve owned, especially in the past several years. Both Panasonic and Olympus QC seems to ...

There is a reason you don't find lens disassembly posts, pages, or videos for the smaller MFT primes - these lenses are practically impossible to disassemble/reassemble like a standard DSLR lens. ...