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Bought a zoom with one corner slightly fuzzy, and in 2 years it became horrendous on the whole side with that corner. Stopping it down just smears it *more* not less.

Now check the complaints about the latest camera (whatever brand) which somehow still shows some coloured grain when lifting shadows from a -5EV exposure...

I wonder what would look like with mineral water (or champagne, or very light beer). As little colouring as possible, but the bubbles would make for an interesting experiment.

...and there's the problem: when one gets so used to underperformance that DA* 50-135 seems fast... :(
I've had the luck (much to my wallet's dismay) to use Canon, Panasonic, Nikon, Olympus and...

For lenses longer than 300mm, having a stabilised viewfinder is a blessing; be it optical or just another screen viewed thru a loupe. And the only stabilised lenses for Pentax were from Sigma...

Damn, $1900 for a water pump and a timing belt... That car is really expensive.
I've driven hard my compact Skoda Fabia (a copy from a small Volksvagen) and I've done that operation 4 times (not...

The first time I tested the 55-300PLM (on a KP, K-70 and a K-1) I couldn't believe how fast and accurate it was; at least as fast as Canon's 70-200 F4L IS (which was pretty fast for a zoom).
Sadly,...

For dpreview readers, this is the 2020 good news that we were waiting.
Thank you and welcome, Mr. Cicala!

You should look at the gallery first... Fuzzy and blobby are perfect descriptors.
But yeah, if you limit yourself to 1-2Mp as shared on social media, it should seem sharp enough.

You'd be surprised about Pentax bodies and Canon flashes, but you missed the point. Also, what I own is just part of what I'm using.
P.S.: being rude doesn't help „you're” case.

For basically everything they started jacking up prices, and this (also) serves as some kind of moving target: „look, many hundreds of euros/dollars for the other models aren't that much, we have...

Even if this should've had some portraits in it, a stopgap is merging your impressions with the other gallery from DPrTV:...

Come on, Mr. Bracaglia... Not fair using a corgi, EVERYONE will like it :D
>:D<

Try to photograph a spider web during the day, perfect light. Fail. Fail again. Take 539 more photographs, find a couple which are close enough, call it a day.
Then come here and complain... Or...

I really appreciate the aperture/DOF control; the photographer nailed the absolute best, closing the diaphragm just enough for maximum separation while the dog's head is tightly framed in depth,...

Take the first image. Zoom to 100%, check the noise in the shadows; some fine grains, even nicer than what most „noise filters” would apply.
Check the ISO: 8000. Eight f*ckin' thousands. Sure, A D5...

Interesting... I thought K-5 didn't have the ultrasonic thing (like K-P has).
My K-70 which uses the same method as K-5 (shaking the entire sensor package, with the stabilization unit) gets plenty...

Thank you, @HJVN!
Clearly I need to check my prescription for glasses...

Indeed. Looks like the passive measures taken to combat dust settling aren't effective, and the active (if any) measures aren't working.
I still remember how much fuss they did for the ultrasonic...

In the embeded video: there's a graph of brightness versus time.
Anyone knows the scale for those?
I'm especially curious about the time scale; did that timelapse took seconds, minutes, days?