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A little late to this discussion and I see you have the camera on the way. I am just dropping in to suggest that if you are ok with MF, the Voigtlander lenses are very nice and have a different render to them that I for one find very pleasant. Especially the 40/1.2 which along with the Sony 35GM...

Part of the issue here is the 'cloud' nature of the software. It is written to rely on network resource, so you are going to get background processes to keep things synced up and up-to-date. The license check for activation is part of this, though they should give you a grace period. One thing...

Wait, you negotiated discounts with all 3 vendors but you're only buying ONE kit? You have more self-discipline than I might in your place. :)

I do have a PD wrist strap I use pretty often. I think I prefer a wrist strap over this, at least for preventing drops. It seems to me this would not be all that helpful in that case as unlike a wrist strap, the camera could still slip off your hand. Maybe. They already have 10x the cash, so it...

I like to take drives in the nearby countryside with no set agenda, maybe not even sure where I want to go to. I usually take my camera with but may or may not take any pictures. Other people get out the phone/maps and lay out a route, when they will start and finish and where they will stop...

You may already know this but the filter does not have to be the exact size of your lenses. To be able to use them with as many lenses as possible they are often on the large size, in fact 72mm is not really that big. For smaller lenses, you would use (relatively inexpensive) step up rings. For...

Actually there is one more that was never merged, Sony-specific talkemount.com which is still barely breathing since it was sold. I am still a moderator over there. Quite a few of the regulars over there moved in whole or in part to this place. I do like visiting system-specific sites in that I...

Just an idea that may or may not work for you if it is even an option with your camera... on occasion I will use the timed shutter release set to 2 seconds, the shortest one I have. This gets the shutter release activity out of the way and gives me a second (well, two) to steady myself and...

This situation is actually a good reminder of something I need to think about once in a while. Stuff of all kinds comes and goes online all the time, but you only hear about things you are personally interested in. I am not sure how useful the net will really be in say, 100 years (if we are...

https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/dpreview.com

I cannot add much to what has already been written above: forums were awful, reviews and other content were sometimes worth reading. Truth be told, nowadays I most often go to a hands-on video review for gear I am considering, but might use written content for specs, etc. And I am one who...

It is also useful to note that in many (most? all? not sure) cases the histogram is based on processed data, i.e. as if you were shooting jpeg, even when actually shooting raw. That may or may not be accurate, but one should be aware of the potential to mislead. I will sometimes look at a...

What exactly happens with an in-camera format seems to vary somewhat between makers. Sony, for example, does something more than clearing the filesystem. People who have inadvertently formatted their SD cards and then tried to recover images using various utilities for the purpose - which worked...

Many of the Roger Cicala articles on the Lens Rental's blog (founded the company) were classic. Look through his entries on history some time. Really fascinating stuff at times. It looks like the Munger article which I'd also seen predated Roger. I suppose there are others who have tried it.

Brownie, I must be a horrible writer; I am agreeing with you. It was not from Sony, just some youtuber from like two years ago.

It was a Sony-specific cleaning tutorial. Their assertion had nothing to do with mirror lockup, and they specifically called out IBIS lockdown. It seemed like a bad idea to me to put fluids in a powered up device, so I ignored them. I was actually tongue-in-cheek about the "advice" but I guess...

For Sony bodies - or at least on the A7ii and A7R3 - there is a menu option for "cleaning mode". My understanding is that after it shakes the sensor it locks down the IBIS. And that you should leave power on at that point, so that the sensor does not float around while swabbing it. I read this...

Now why would anyone deliberately set fire to that? It really is a crazy world. Nice work. I love the interspersed dog shots. :giggle:

Fortran? Whoa... I haven't touched that since around 1980, on an IBM 370 mainframe. I am sure the toolset has changed a little bit since then. :P (I used to be a dev up until around 2010, many languages, platforms, etc.)

Is there a LR feature comparable to C1 layers? For that matter does anything outside of Adobe products or C1 have something comparable? Layers is a very useful feature of C1 to me and I would miss it a lot.

There have been mixed and nebulous messages coming out of Capture One. Something is coming in February, and pricing is obviously being set now to encourage subscriptions, particularly in the way perpetuals are going to get updates (or perhaps not get them is a better way to put it). The...

Why must we create classifications at all? Should not a great art image - photograph or not - be able to stand on its own and engage the observer? In the end, I suppose it may serve a purpose to find others interested in the same types of images. Yet I think it also limits both artists who...

A better mic might help, but I think part of the sound issue is reflection off the walls. I'd recommend some sound curtains/blankets or if that is not feasible, at least some heavy blankets on the walls.

The best way to decide if IBIS alone is enough is to find a scene that represents what you like to photograph, then take several photos with and without a tripod (borrow/rent one if you do not own one). I did this a few years ago for landscapes. For smaller images it is not a huge difference...

I am terrible about getting my photos into a finished state and actually putting them in front of someone, even my wife. Thus, I have an embarassingly large backlog. But if I do think something turns out particularly well, it sounds silly but I will often set it as my computer "wallpaper". I...

Also used dpreview a long time ago and abandoned it as the cesspool took over. Then FM, which I still lurk around in, and talkemount which also suffered a VScope buyout. I was not worried so much about TOS but about the total lack of attention, zero communication, lack of promised updates, etc...