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And Nikon have no parts, so will not repair one if it becomes faulty. If the OP has a DSLR or mirrorless camera, this is the best way for 35mm.

Yes. A lens that gives the same enlargement as 10x binoculars will be quite long. The type of camera known as a Bridge Camera has a lens that zooms out to give a very good enlargement. It is fixed ...

Cave painting rules.  ;-)

The OP used a tripod. He did everything right. I am sure he has a dud lens and should get one of the Sigmas.

And for small kids rushing around.

I much prefer the original. You can't please everyone.  ;-)

Aliasing is a symptom, not a cause. The cause is too coarse sampling (pixel pitch in the case of sensors).

I sometimes see a sharp photo taken with the kit zoom, but most are not sharp. I suspect poor quality control on that lens.

The sharpest images will always be those taken with very high shutters speeds or flash, or on a solid tripod. Stabilisation is there to cover you when the lighting forces a shutter speed at which ...

You might start with the 50mm lens. The kit zoom lens is rather dim for low light shots. A 50mm lens is fine for portraits, and while the conventional thing is to use a wide angle lens for ...

Well it looks exactly right to me, including the tree on the far right. The distant mountains are just perfect, and of course the movement of the water. I wonder if those trees will survive having ...

I think the fourth image is the best.

This is the ideal sensor, not a practical one. There should be a spectrum curve for each elementary patch of the image. The conflict is between the number of pixels needed (each with a different ...

If there is a hard limit there will be aliasing, unless frequencies above half the limit are filtered out. Aliasing is a consequence or symptom of the limited number of samples per mm. It doesn't ...

Aliasing and resolution are not separate things. Aliasing is the visible hard limit on resolution given by any system with a limited number of samples. If you want it to be less visible, you can ...

What you say in your last paragraph is news to me. It could be very useful for inverting a lot of negatives. Thanks.

I think you are fixed on the idea that the whole picture must be seen at once. But, particularly with Merrill images, viewing can be a two-stage process. First you look at the whole picture, for ...

Of which there should be ten or more, not three.

And this will be the case when using a long lens to shoot wildlife or BIF. (Ignoring other factors such as stabilisation.) However, the pixels-on-target from the A6000 are only slightly more than ...

If you use the same lens (for example, a 600mm) on both cameras, the image is exactly the same size on both sensors. The larger sensor gives a wider angle of view, so more background around the ...