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Pentax-DA 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 ED WR Review

Andrew L (gryphon1911) posted a topic in General Gear Chat, Monday at 14:00

checking out the local camera store and seeing what they have a in Pentax K lens, the options were not huge, but I did see a Pentax 18-135mm, so decided to start there as a first lens for the K-3.

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Pentax K-3 Camera Review

Andrew L (gryphon1911) posted a topic in General Gear Chat, 20 September

Always heard good things about Pentax - weather sealing, ruggedness, the way their sensor output handles greens and blues.
I was wandering about my local camera store and behold! I see in their used cabinet a gaggle of Pentax DSLRs.

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Nikon Z8 Review

Andrew L (gryphon1911) posted a topic in Nikon, 4 September

The Nikon Z 8 is probably the closest I’ll ever get to owning a new Nikon flagship camera. It often comes down to need, justification and price.

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Panasonic 14mm f/2.5 Micro 4/3 Lens Review

Andrew L (gryphon1911) posted a topic in Micro Four Thirds, 28 August

When you have a lens as good as the Olympus 12-100/4 OIS Pro, why would you want the Panasonic 14mm f/2.5?

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Squaring Off In Modern Living Spaces

Dallas posted an entry in My Life In Photography, 15 August

I’ve always been a big fan of modernism in living spaces. As a teenager and through much of my early 20’s I would spend an inordinate amount of time designing house floor plans...

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Fujifilm XF56mm f/1.2 R WR Lens Review

Andrew L (gryphon1911) posted a topic in Fujifilm, 14 August

The XF 56/1.2 lenses fell a bit in the niche category. Something like the 50/2 would be your everyday, small and light lenses.

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Olympus 75mm f/1.8 Lens Review

Andrew L (gryphon1911) posted a topic in Micro Four Thirds, 11 August

This is one of those GOAT lenses. You’d be hard pressed to find a lens like this on another system.

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Novelty and creativity: are they beyond the Artificial Intelligence capability?

danielm posted a topic in Off Topic, 10 August

Can we be against progress? And what we are meaning by progress? Are our human goal of better life is synonymous of progress? Is materialism and technical evolution the only progress we are renowning as legitimate?

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Olympus 12-100mm f/4 PRO Dual IS Lens Review

Andrew L (gryphon1911) posted a topic in Micro Four Thirds, 7 August

This lens was one of those that was always in the back of my mind to get one day. Not going to lie, I was partially being cheap about it.

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Nikon 28-75mm f/2.8 Z Mount Lens Review

Andrew L (gryphon1911) posted a topic in Nikon, 4 August

While I love the prime lenses Nikon has put out in the S line for the Z mount, I wanted to have a fast prime for the times when swapping lenses was impractical.

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Nikon 10-20mm f/4.5-5.6 VR Lens Review

Andrew L (gryphon1911) posted a topic in Nikon, 31 July

I opted to see if the AF-P 10-20mm f/4.5-5.6 VR lens on the FTZ adapter was worth it.

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Nikon Z 12-28mm f/3.5-5.6 VR DX Lens Review

Andrew L (gryphon1911) posted a topic in Nikon, 18 July

Background
This is by no means a first wide angle lens for the Nikon Z system, as there was already a 14-30mm released. That one is not optimized for video shooting as it lacks a power zoom and lens stabilization (only relevant to cameras without IBIS).

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Fujifilm Finepix S3 Pro Review

Andrew L (gryphon1911) posted a topic in Fujifilm, 10 July

Back in early days of my photography career (that was around 2005), there was always talk about the special nature of what Fuji was doing with the Super CCD sensor enabled cameras.

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What is compactness?

danielm posted a topic in General Gear Chat, 5 July

When we speak about the science or the art of creating a compact device of any kind (phone, camera, bag, tent, car), you can be sure to ignite a debate about the criteria to select and use to do so.

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Zhong Yi Mitakon 28mm f/5.6 M-Mount Lens Review

Andrew L (gryphon1911) posted a topic in General Gear Chat, 26 June

In the world of m mount lenses there are a lot of very good options for the 28mm field of view.

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Leica Wetzlar Elmar C 90mm f/4 M-Mount Lens Review

Andrew L (gryphon1911) posted a topic in General Gear Chat, 19 June

Getting into the Leica world, one of my first concerns was the lack of long telephotos or at a minimum how well they would work with the rangefinder or by using live view.

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Zeiss Planar 50mm f/2 ZM M-Mount Lens Review

Andrew L (gryphon1911) posted a topic in General Gear Chat, 12 June

Truth be told, I was a little confused on the various 50mm lenses for Leica m mount. Not from a perspective of what was good, as there are many good options.

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Comrades Marathon 2023

Dallas posted a topic in People, 11 June

The Comrades Marathon is an ultra marathon that is approximately 89km total distance, run from the City of Pietermaritzburg to Durban, or vice versa. Normally the race alternates between the "up run" (ending in PMB) and the "down run" (ending in Durban) but we have had 2 down runs in succession this year.

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Zeiss C-Biogon 35mm f/2.8 M-Mount Lens Review

Andrew L (gryphon1911) posted a topic in General Gear Chat, 5 June

At the recommendation of a friend, I got a line on this Zeiss 35mm lens. His terminology is that the lens is “small and bitingly sharp”.

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Leica M Typ 240 Review

Andrew L (gryphon1911) posted a topic in General Gear Chat, 22 May

Never, up until a few weeks ago would I have thought that I would be an inductee into the “Cult of Leica”.

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Ricoh GW-4 - 21mm Wide Angle Adapter for the GR III

Andrew L (gryphon1911) posted a topic in General Gear Chat, 22 May

Everyone should have at least one wide angle option for those times when you are in close or you want to get a massive vista without stitching.

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Ricoh GR III Review

Andrew L (gryphon1911) posted a topic in General Gear Chat, 15 May

I always want to have a camera with me. I’ve tried several different iterations of compact cameras and interchangeable lens cameras that had smaller lens footprints.

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Forward to the past: the Olympus Pen-F keeps coming back again!

danielm posted a topic in Micro Four Thirds, 9 May

It is one of a kind never preceded, never replaced (by Olympus) after all those years of love and discussions about its possible future. But, in one way, the Olympus Pen-F digital camera was already at its evolutive pinnacle right from its introduction.

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Tamron 200-400mm f/5.6 (A-Mount) Lens Review

Andrew L (gryphon1911) posted a topic in General Gear Chat, 8 May

Digging into the longer telephoto world for Minolta A Mount, we found this $50 lens – yes – you read that right…a 200-400mm f/5.6 telephoto for $50 used.

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Minolta AF 500mm f/8 Reflex A-mount Lens Review

Andrew L (gryphon1911) posted a topic in General Gear Chat, 1 May

One could think this a bit of a novelty lens. When was the last time you heard that a mirror lens was top quality in image quality? On top of that, if you did want to use one, you were relegated to manual focusing.