Tapani Tarvainen

One situation where speedy setup matters is when you're hiking with the intent of photographing whatever wildlife comes along. Of course most of the time that's handheld anyway, but sometimes being...

Misspelling for Cardassians, I presume. But I didn't know there were any on Earth. :-)

(https://intl.startrek.com/database_article/cardassians)

Curiously, *everybody* I know use their credit cards exactly like that and always have. But the sample isn't statistically significant, so you may be right about "most people".

Besides Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 and EF-S 24mm f/2.8 there're the Voigtländers: Color Skopar 20mm f/3.5 and Ultron 40mm f/2 pancakes.

There are many wider options all the way down to 10mm rectilinear...

I could live without flash (though at times I would miss it) and the shorter battery life (annoying though that is), what I'm worried about is the change in ergonomics. In particular the loss of...

Neither really. It means they can't distinguish between red and green (and orange and yellow).

But cats' color vision isn't really well understood and some recent research suggests that might not...

Many animals are more or less color blind and even those that aren't tend to ignore things that don't move regardless of color. Not all though, and most birds see colors quite well and some are...

It seems camera and lens manufacturers are very conservative about cold temperature tolerances. Some seem to think 0°C is cold, I don't recall any claiming below -10°C, even though they generally...