jonpais

Olympus realized FF was just a passing fad and nobody would be foolish enough to spend all their money on heavy overpriced lenses like the Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8.

I’ve been a member of this forum since 2013 and not once have I heard anyone argue that one system or format was best for everyone. I guess we are lucky not to have all those inexperienced photographers cluttering up the threads with such silly comments. What I do find astonishing however is someone claiming that FF mirrorless is a craze that will vanish as quickly as it appeared. Or saying: There is no reason for the average user to carry heavy and expensive lenses. It certainly sounds to me like you are the one dictating what photographers should and should not be doing. ?

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Handmade with premium quality Brazilian leather. sounds enticing...

I drove a Hyundai for five years before moving to Asia and it was the most reliable car I’d ever owned. And you are right, Kisaha - nowhere else in the world would a camera like the EOS R drop in price $700 after day one, especially considering that they will never be more in demand than at launch.

Maybe you misunderstood. Owners’ overall satisfaction with Kia is very high and according to JD Powers, because of their reliabilty, depreciation is ranked better than average. Happy driving.

Then that's a good thing, because according to thedrive.com, Kia has shed its humble image to become a high-end contender. In 2016, KIA ranked 69 on Interbrand’s list of “100 Best Global Brands,”alongside corporate giants like Facebook, Amazon, Nissan, and BMW. The brand’s value today is estimated at more than $6 billion—more than 6.5 times higher than its value in 2007. And autotrader.com reported a couple years back that a Consumer Reports reliability study placed Kia in fifth -- ahead of virtually all luxury brands and even ahead of car companies that consumers traditionally consider reliable, like Acura, Honda, Infiniti, Porsche and Subaru. And Forbes reported just three months ago that two decades ago, Korean brands Hyundai and Kia were considered little more than compromise purchases for people who didn't have the cash or credit score to afford a car from Japan, Detroit or Europe. Today, according to vehicle quality tracker J.D. Power, Toyota and BMW and other stalwarts of quality and reputation are chasing Hyundai, Kia and Hyundai luxury brand Genesis for the fewest glitches and design flaws. So good on Panasonic!

Zeiss CP.3 primes take shading and distortion correction to the next level.

Someone stole one of the prototypes at the show?

Have a look at the charts and you tell me. But unless you’re shooting real estate, I’m not so sure how much it really matters. Distortion can be pretty severe at some focal lengths, but a lot of zooms ‘as bad or worse’ than the Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 in that regard have been a staple of filmmakers for forever - the Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8, for example.

It doesn’t inspire much confidence in a system when a brand spanking new camera drops by a whopping $700 the day after removing the bubble wrap. Particularly when the owner is entitled to a full refund of the original purchase price within 30 days from reputable dealers. ?

I’d sooner manually focus than mess around with all those settings. ? The paper is illuminating in that it only reinforces the perception that Panasonic never intends to adopt PDAF. Furthermore, DFD only works with Panasonic/PanLeica lenses - and unlike Sony and Fuji, I’ve never been able to find that magic combination of focal lengths, apertures, optical performance, build quality and price to justify building a set entirely of OEM lenses. At the risk of repeating myself, it’s taken me years to assemble a hodge-podge of m43 lenses; it took a matter of days or weeks to build a collection of superb Sony and Fuji glass.

It’s not unreasonably long. Chief purpose of announcement is threefold - to reassure the Panasonic faithful that m43 is not dead yet; to demonstrate that Panasonic is a leader in innovation; and boasting that it will replace five primes is to prepare buyers for the exorbitant sticker price.

RAW files reveal slight distortion in the Olympus 25mm and 45mm f/1.2 Pro primes used in JB’s Models Walking in Daylight, but huge amounts in the 12-100mm f/4. I’ve shot fairly extensively with the Olympus 45mm f/1.2 Pro on the GH5 and it’s pretty spectacular no matter how you slice it. I’m quite confident the PanLeica 10-25mm f/1.7 will in all likelihood also have deliriously high distortion whenever it is released. It should be noted that even zooms that don’t rely on in-body software correction, such as as the brilliant Sigma ART 18-35mm f/1.8, suffer from distortion - in this case quite noticeable barrel distortion - from the wide end up until around 24-28mm, where it is tamed a bit.

Nobody has any information about what it will cost or when it will be released.

That last sentence of yours just killed whatever trust I had in your little hands on review.

A year? More like five years. ? They’re almost free! Only $6,000 for a set of three.

I repeat, B RAW will not be coming to a hybrid anywhere near Ohio in my lifetime.

Just looking at the Leica 12mm f/1.4 and 8-18mm f/2.8-4, they’ve both got huge amounts of distortion.

other cinema cameras perhaps; not mirrorless.

Sigma issues official statement confirming adaptability on Z7 with FTZ adapter.

Who drives? I don’t go anywhere without Grab. ?

That’s a sweet mark-up. ?

Theoretically speaking, if you haven’t already ordered, I wouldn’t expect to be holding the Z6 until 2020. Unless you’re willing to pay a scalper.. ?

A dissenting view to Lens Rentals, in which Lloyd Chambers criticizes the increasingly common habit of companies publishing charts showing MTF results without distortion correction applied, claiming that lenses can never achieve the same results with correction enabled, that certain lenses actually require correction in software (Fuji X in Adobe Camera RAW for example) and that correction actually hurts micro contrast. The benefits of such software correction are obvious: cost reduction and the ability to design smaller, lighter lenses. The problem as I see it is when using lenses relying on software correction on a body without such software, like the P4K. We are seeing some manufacturers allow disabling in-camera vignetting and diffraction correction and perhaps in the distant future a fn button can disable them all. But I still see Lloyd’s rant as a bit of a tempest in teapot, since most if not all manufacturers’ charts are nothing more than idealized computer generated models based on fairy tale conditions. Which is where Lens Rentals comes in...