Kharan

Andrei C: It's no problem to make such designs AF, especially with a tiny micromotor and whole-body AF. Most pancake lenses, Canon 40mm included, have an inner barrel that slides in and out to...

How about your false comment above? That bit about putting "the missing distance back in"? Canon can never do wrong, according to you, and of course the merits of all other manufacturers are...

StopTheGAS: Well, I thought it was obvious that my last remark was aimed at davev8’s comment, not yours. He’s a well-known pro-Canon, anti-mirrorless troll. I’m sorry for any confusion I might’ve...

But I want f/2, like the Zeiss or Voigtländer lenses :(

The Canon is cheap only because it was released right after the dinosaurs went extinct :D
It doesn’t hold a candle to any portrait lens released after 2002, except for the Chinese ones.

Yes you can, Voigtländer have been making them for M mount since before I was born, so stop spreading BS. Up to 50mm, symmetric designs can be made tiny, especially if aperture or wide-open...

I don’t own any LA-EAs, and the Sony 85mm f/2.8 doesn’t sport a 1:1.8 maximum magnification. It’s a great lens otherwise, I agree, but I specifically want a fast, half-macro portrait lens, which...

Can you please clarify what this 'Sony APS-C models' fragment refers to? A-mount? E-mount? Why APS-C only?
I'd love to have it for my A6500 if the performance stopped down is good. A small,...

I give Canon's Imaging division loads of crap for the things we all know about. But their Printing Solutions products are actually pretty good. I own three Canon printers (a PRO-100, a Selphy...

basyl1891: True. It's likely that Laowa are recycling the aperture actuator mechanism from another lens to allow for A-mode operation on Nikon and Pentax cameras.

It's a problem of converting a spherical image into a flat plane. You might be aware of the problems in dimensions with the Mercator projection - the stuff close to the poles is oversized, versus...

Suntan: Why? 24 FPS is still the most common frame rate for cinema, and the camera shoots that.

Aaron: So, does that mean that people who let their phone do everything (pick the settings, trip the shutter upon registering smiling faces, and some even do auto-framing) aren’t the authors of...

I don’t expect limited-run, experimental gear that costs X-times as much to be X-times better. We’re way past that point, and diminishing returns have set in.
But the achievement of a full-wafer...

One big potential market for this are cinematographers - it shoots 4K, and allows for spectacular OOF rendering even with wide angle lenses.
As soon as the Mark II goes on sale with double the MP...

Holy f... It IS impressive. Not like one couldn’t get a similar photo with a smaller sensor, but the soft focus and low contrast, as well as the exquisite detail, is a combination hard to replicate.

I’d say more like 200. The margins probably aren’t great on the cam, the sensor alone must be in the tens of thousands of dollars in terms of cost, and then one must add all of development and...

Well, I for one side with Wikipedia on this one. David Slater is a liar, and deserves not to get credit for the photo, as it's become such a success only because of his description of the events...

The A9M2 seriously *needs* the A99M2's grip. Maybe not exactly that, but something similar - it's the best grip in the business (IMO). Give it that, and you'll find 50% of today's DSLR resistance...

Kostasm:
1) X-Trans brings no advantages, and a host of disadvantages to the table. It's bad. It's unnecessary. Sure you can make good photos with it, but it takes more effort for no perceivable...