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The National Geo one looks nice AND interesting.

Lens for the close-ups of my son was the Kern-Paillard 150mm f/4. These were of a band concert, using available light, which was typical school gym lighting. The AWB by the Q7 did an OK job, but ...

Many of us here are hoping for an MX-2 or even an Olympus XZ-3 with faster image processor. I love mine. Not only is its lens outstanding, but the build quality is un-rivaled among point & shoots. ...

I shot some raw in the Q7 last night for the first time. When I got home and uploaded them to my computer, DxO gave me a thumbnail preview, but when I tried to open the images for editing, it said ...

They cover everything down to extremely technical details, but also give personal feelings and experiences. (with appropriate qualifications)

It gets brittle in the cold...

This is where the Q system really excels: when you want SLR flexibility without the weight and bulk. 02 = normal zoom, 24-70 or so. 08 = wide zoom. A full kit might consist of: (1) Pentax Q-S1 camera body

Go to M mode. Set the aperture for a small opening, like f/22. Set the shutter speed for a long exposure, like 2 seconds. Look into the lens and trip the shutter. You'll see if the lens is stopping ...

I thought about that as well. If I knew 100% what I wanted to do with a pic when I shot it, I would just shoot JPG most of the time. But since I don't, it's better to have raw, so all the original ...

It's not what I'm doing with JPGs, but what extra is needed with each raw file. Raw files don't have distortion correction applied automatically, or color balance, or noise reduction. With JPG, it ...

(1) I would buy a Pentax K-1 and all the lenses (2) A Rolleiflex 2.8 TLR with a Zeiss lens (3) An Olympus OM4Ti with all ...

You don't really need more resolution than the X100T has got; these photos don't tend to be printed huge. I also kind of like that it has built-in film simulation modes; (Fuji knows their stuff ...

...because the Pen F seems to duplicate the OM-D you've already got. Not much smaller, same lenses would be used. It'll be more compact; less lens protrusion. The fact that it looks like an old ...

We used to do this back in the film/manual focus days. Believe it or not, it can be incredibly fast , and it is especially practical outdoors, with a wide angle lens: 1) Set to manual focus 2) Set ...

Short answer: Neither, but if I had to choose, I guess it would be cute. Sometimes "serious" attempt at art. Most often, at this stage of life, I just want better-than-average family or vacation ...

High, but it takes more time, as you acknowledge below. How so? My images are all imported together. Again, high. The question is whether it's worth your time or not. Most of the time, you'll find ...

Here are some with my 150mm (675 mm equiv.) telephoto. You can see that the grass just a foot in front of and behind him are blurry, you can imagine what it'd be like if there were decent subject ...

You know the type: very thin nylon cord to go through the strap lug. Thicker nylon strap to go around the wrist. I use a knot or rubber band to adjust it to the right size. I hang it from my wrist ...

The only thing they're NOT strong at is professional work. The other cameras being discussed here, with fixed prime lenses will easily beat a Q at the one thing they do: high image quality with a ...