Recent content by Joel_Partch

Yes. M43's central weakness is its central strength: size. Pretty good, very small lenses are great when cheap, but if you need to up the ante, you hit sky-high prices and concrete limitations. For me, the reputation M43 lenses have for quality is overdone, but the utility of the system for...

To be fair, I think M43 is undervalued for distance work: the tele lenses are excellent by any standards, and at those focal lengths the weight and size savings are significant. AF is good enough for BIF and running chickens. Enough said. But for portraits, even the best lenses are no better...

When you say 'friend' . . .

I like his video reviews, but sometimes they focus a bit too much on his wife . . .

Look: I know all the photographers. I have the best photos. I look at those photos - and they're real - and I think, you know maybe - I don't know about them - some of them are good people, but I don't think so. Joe is very supportive of me - he's a great guy - he's strong and we regularly go...

He's got a Wix website then. Must be a player.

Go CS5! Mine still works after what feels like a lifetime. No plans to upgrade. May eventually have to build a PC with an old OS just to run it . . .

Must be someone on Instagram.

Strange how this format has been a victim of opprobrium since it launched and to date . . . however the problem seems to be that all the lenses are quite good (very few without major flaws) but much too small and plagued with sample variation. For instance, I would love to see a wide lens that...

Who's Joe Cornish?

Shoot a single test frame at ISO 200, f4-5.6, on a tripod, in RAW and correctly focused - once on the centre frame, once on the corners. If it's still soft - or uneven - it's the lens. Sample variation is a big issue with MFT lenses.

Don't be afraid of not getting the whole interior (from front to back) in sharp focus.

You could argue the D800E was the moment IQ peaked: it was a big step up from anything else available previously. The D850 is a very minor incremental improvement, and nothing since then has been such a large step up. Ironically, the biggest jump over the D800E was probably the ancient Canon...

Back to work, I hope . . .

If you pay the going rate for a used slide scanner you can sell it at the same price when you're done - costing nothing. They're much quicker and easier to use than Heath Robinson contraptions.