Recent content by Sootchucker

I started a thread over in the Micro Four Thirds forum stating that it was stagnating quite a bit over recent years (although it's still a great system), and many responded by stating it's charm was size and weight. The trouble with that argument is that on the body front, some of the Sony FF...

Can't really help with your question Peter, but all I will say is that whilst I find myself shooting 80-90% of my wildlife and bird photos with my Nikon Z kit these days, my Olympus 300mm F4 Pro is so sharp and easy to pack, that for the 10-20% I shoot with my OM-1 I can't honestly see myself...

Sony cameras are generally soulless and yes I'd agree that generally their ergonomics are worse than an OMS camera (however they are getting much better), however they do get the job done and their AF and tracking is simply magic. Out of all my bodies, for ergonomics, I'd have to say my Nikon Z...

I think it's interesting what OMS said in a recent interview: Why OM is stuck with 20MP sensors: Balancing high sensitivity performance and high definition is a major challenge. We also carefully evaluate the sensor readout speed, which is crucial for computational photography. For...

The usual "what to take" question I'm afraid. At the beginning of April the wife and myself are going on a 4 day city break to Rome. I've just purchased an A7CR which will definitely be the body of choice, however I'm debating over my lens choice. For my Sony system, the usual two lenses are my...

I purchased a Samsung 990 PRO NVMe M.2 SSD, 4 TB, PCIe 4.0, 7,450 MB/s read, 6,900 MB/s NVME from Amazon back at the Start of October last year, and paid £273.99. I just checked today for the same one and it's gone up to £469.99 !! That's a 75% increase in just 6 months !

The below isn't meant to put Micro Four Thirds down at all (after all I still own 3 Olympus bodies and about 7 lenses, and have no intentions of selling them), as I do still genuinely have a soft sport for the format. However, I've recently taken delivery of a new Sony A7CR, as a small EDC and...

Jeff, had that lens back in my F mount days - sadly I wasn't overly impressed. Compared to modern lenses, AF speed was decidedly leisurely and relatively speaking - loud :( Mine might have been a bad copy though ?

Some very rare (for me) Sony bird images. Went out for a walk yesterday with the A7RV and my APS-C 70-350 Sony lens (the longest lens I own). In the distance I saw this tree creeper flitting about on a tree trunk. Not the greatest photos in the world, and these are all very severe crops (good...

I used to think that about a lack of viewfinder myself, especially after owning for a short time a Nikon Z30 which also lacked a viewfinder. However on speaking to a mate of mine who's recently picked up a ZR (and he's older than me probably with poorer eyesight), he has told me the screen is a...

Anyone on here got the Nikon ZR, and can give some feedback on what it's like to use. Don't know why, but the size and weight of it appeals to me as a walk about body, even though I guess it's primary purpose is to shoot in Red colour format ? As it doesn't have a viewfinder, can anyone comment...

Not that I'm the demographic Nikon is looking at for purchasing a £3k 70-200 lens, but it looks very similar to the foot arrangement on my Olympus 40-150 F2.8 Pro, which again comes off as just one piece and has a sleeve which slides over the exposed pins when it's removed. It's never bothered...

Well I can only speak to my experience. I have had a lot (and still do) of Apple Hardware (Mac Book Pros, Mac Mini's and Mac Studios), and all have been faultlessly reliable. Whilst I'm sure they have their fair share of issues, maybe I've just been lucky ? However, at work we use Dell hardware...

I think a lot of high end Laptops are more and more copying Apple's formula, with a thin unibody chassis, higher res screens, but less and less components which are upgradable (including memory, IO Cards, NVME drives and batteries). So which ever you choose, go into it with the knowledge that...

If you wanted to cover all eventualities in native Z mount lenses, then technically you could do that with 3 lenses - the 14-30 F4 (or the 14-24 F2.8 if you are feeling flush), the 24-200 (however you already have the 24-70 F4), and the 180-600. That takes you from 14mm to 900mm (in 20mp APSC...