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Just imagine a photograph of the eye with that thing!
Probably would turn someone into cyclops in a progress but… good photos require sacrifices.

with the same size of photographed object in frame (and that’s what we, photographers care about) depth of field varies depending on sensor size. But so does the focal length vary (that’s the reason why someone invented “crop factor”.

That’s the Japanese company. They wait till time passes. They’re never in rush for making changes, and what we ask for would be a huge change in Sony way of viewing world outside corporate walls.

It’s not that simple. Unhappy customers won’t recommend your products reducing the profits from your untapped market (and good word from other person is better than $1000 spent on advertisement). Also unhappy customers won’t consider investing in your system: Sales of lenses and accessories drop down, or you are loosing HUGE market of potential buyers [...]

You see, one of the reasons why I picked Alpha was because I thought that company trying to gain market share quickly will listen to it’s customers more than Canon or Nikon which seem to skip everything people say besides mass protests because of issues like light-leaks or explosions. Meanwhile it came out Sony is [...]

It is. Every newly produced Sigma lens is compatible with SLT – they fixed the issue with their chips already.

I agree that extending of the lens might be concern (though I tend to pre-focus as much as possible – running through whole focusing range in front of the bug is dumb regardless if lens extends or not), but if you’ll take a look at Kurt’s review of the lens you will notice that on [...]

What do you mean by “beating hollow Canon/Nikon equivalents”? Sony, Canon, and Nikon macro lenses are as good as it gets. Even if it’s somewhat better at certain apertures – it’s mostly a difference for pixel-peepers, nothing useful as macro lenses are superb across the manufacturers. This ” decades old design ” of 100mm macro from Sony [...]

Sony doesn’t publish roadmaps for A-mount. Neither does Canon or Nikon. Somehow noone complains.

12-70? ROTFL. I guess you can’t imagine the size of that thing and pathetic image quality.
You see: there is one magical reason why noone makes zooms for APS-C reaching from sub-16mm to over 50mm.

Reasonable & realistic, some of these we got already lucky enough. 24mm f/1.8, 35 f/1.8, 50 f/1.8, 80mm f/1.8 16mm pancake ~34mm pancake ~50mm pancake 12-16mm f/3.5-5.6 UWA (this gonna be big, no doubt… but well… uwa needs to be there regardless of size, and reduced focal range should make it possibly small) 18-50 f/2.8 [...]

If you turn both on there won’t be any conflict, but your photos will be blurred. That’s because first lenses compensates camera movement and than body tries to compensate something that isn’t there on a picture any more as lens already done the job. So the photos might be worse even than without using any [...]

Depends if you actually use them or just whine about them.

question almost the same as why to buy A77 when you can get D3200. lol.

disappointing? Like… in what?
Only thing I found somewhat disappointing was high-ISO performance. Though as 95% of my shots are sub-ISO400: I couldn’t care less.

If anything is the worst part of the system – it’s the special-purpose accessories and lenses. They almost don’t exist. No T&S. No APS-C Fisheye. No long macro lens. No macro lens with magnification higher than 1:1. No 600mm tele. No set of UWA lenses (no UWA primes, no UWA zooms besides semi-good 11-18). Flash [...]

Smart TC in RAW? No. – Impossible from technical point of view and doesn’t make any sense from logical point of view. If anything: sRAW would be appreciated. If you want Smart TC in RAW: Make a RAW picture, develop it, and than throw TIFF into one of apps that allow you choosing the re-sizing [...]

“But you should not get too frustrated. All that kind of stuff is coming within the next 3-4 months. So you really don’t have to wait a long time anymore!” – This info is probably first really good news we had since a while. New lenses sound REALLY promising and I’m truly excited about them, [...]

Both of them longer zooms are year 2007. I agree that 18-135mm isn’t an anticipated lens, but I don’t think releasing it was garbage. At least: I’m not ready to say it as long as I don’t see any tests. If it’s superior to 16-105 than certainly it’ll be a nice choice for many people [...]

As if screen would be sooooo important. 230k is really good, don’t know what people want from it. I had Alpha with 230k screen for few years and never ever complained. Now I got A77 and I’m not positively shocked about the screen anyway. There are improvements though which are very nice: Electronic first curtain, [...]