meanwhile

Maybe they used the money they saved on the f/2.8 to buy a flash, and they've actually increased their choices, not lessened then. Maybe they will take their smaller and lighter camera more places, ...

Yep, wasn't disagreeing with you. I didn't know the original purpose of those two aperture rings on some of my lenses. I knew they were called preset lenses, and it seems completely obvious now, ...

"Users then could focus at bright wide open and then quickly turn the ring to the preset capture stop without needing to check that it was "correct"." That's what that is for. Ha.

Fujifilm are the Ilford.

"What if the vandals are women ?"

It's an interesting question. What chance do you think it was?

Noice and thingie are Australian English.

But ... the EOS M5 has a touchscreen that you can use to place the focus point *while using the EVF*.

Yes, good points MrCentrist and Interestingness. Isn't it weird how you agree? I'd guess that even your IP address is the same.

I actually decided a while back to skip the xx-Nex route altogether and use a different approach. I now use a Hawks Leica-M Helicoid to Sony E-mount, and then xx-LM adaptors to attach to it. 5 ...

One is mainly plastic and will last 20 years. The other is mainly metal and will last 100.

"No I can see why they made it 2.4, all I said was that its a shame. I had the Nikon AI primes that mostly matched nicely so I appreciate the idea."

Speaking of the Nikkors, it would have been...

"especially without IS to fall back on"

Get an A7 II, A7S II or A7rII and you have IS to fall back on.

(see that was already covered, sorry)

If this doesn't raise their eyebrows then they are looking at the wrong thing.

Nice. Hopefully more competition like this will force Sony to add touch-to-focus as well, eventually.

Which paragraph said it had a decent grip and longer than 56mm equivalent?

OK.

Did the article say otherwise?

Here's a tinfoil hat for you.

People send in a press release. If it's decently written, the product seems of interest, and the photos are a good quality, they'll likely use it. Same as any other site of this type.

I've been waiting for something like the CM1 for years. But I didn't buy one, did you?