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Can’t you just buy the subscription using a different account from them?

Yes, any bit depth may contain any amount of dynamic range. But if you store something with a bit depth below the dynamic range, you loose information and this can show up visually as stepping.

I 2009, Leica sold a (no AF, no VR, no TC) 560 mm f/4 for €16’300 as part of its APO-Telyt-R Module system. What that is in todays Euros, I leave as an exercise to the reader (maybe add 25%). ...

What one is risking is depreciation.

Yeah, sure because nobody ever tried shooting backlit subjects with other competitive mirrorless cameras.

Given the absence of any reports about Fuji having same issue, and there has been plenty of people using and writing about them, I’d say it is basically confirmed that “competitive mirrorless...

And here I thought the vast majority of photographers use something like Lightroom, Capture One, or, since this is a Mac app, the Apple Photos app that all do the importing for you and, except for...

If your point is that first-party lenses are very often significantly more expensive than third-party ones than this about as meaningful a statement as saying that water is wet.

A medium format lens that is only 14% more expensive than a similar FF lens is almost a bargain.

@Impules When you mention 135 and 200 mm, is that on m43 (ie, equivalent 270 and 400 mm on FF)?

The OM-1 de facto has an 80 MP sensor that gets downscaled to 20 MP and uses the “sub-pixels” mainly for phase detect AF.

Nothing happened to the 200-500 mm f/5.6, you can still buy it.

So, comparing two lenses with f-stop difference of 4/3 stops would be absurd (f/7.1 for the Canon’s 100-500 mm zoom vs f/11 for the Canon 600 mm) but a difference of 2/3 stops is so small that it...

By that logic, the Canon 600 & 800 mm f/11 lenses must be even more popular than the PF lenses. Look how much lighter and shorter the 600 mm f/11 is than all the xxx-600 mm zooms. And can you...

How often have we seen this sentence in reviews of new cameras: “The hand grip is a little deeper.”?

Like the 200-500 mm f/5.6 cannibalised the 500 mmf/5.6 PF?

So you say people payed an almost $2500 premium for the 500 mm f/5.6 PF over the 200-500 mm f/5.6 for a 37% weight saving at at the same f-stop, but won’t pay a roughly $500 premium for an 8%...

I would have said the 100-400 mm is more mid-range in that list of lenses than the 200-600 mm.

But we are likely to get two 600 mm options this year: 200-600 mm and 600 mm f/4.

Without any optical diagrams for the 400 mm f/4.5 this is all speculation, but in a sense the 400 mm might have a pretty similar front end as the 500 mm end but with a shorter back end that makes...