Comments on: Dear Santa

By: Arturo

Arturo — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:17:42 +0000

@Graham, because of EOS?

By: Manuela

Manuela — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 07:30:13 +0000

I don’t need more Sony lenses, I am perfectly happy with my converter+Leica-R lenses. I need a FF-NEX

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:42:44 +0000

Bless you Roger, for giving joy and good tidings to all.
I hope you will write many a column in years to come….

By: Graham Cifra

Graham Cifra — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 08:14:49 +0000

Regarding the universal mount thing: why exactly did Adaptall go away?

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 02:28:06 +0000

That 4/3 ED 150/2 tele is a bit rich at $2,500 plus the cost of a 4/3 to M43 adapter. How about a 120/2.5 or a 150/2.8 in the $800 to $1,000 range? That would even fit under the tree.

By: A

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 18:25:14 +0000

Dear Santa,

I have but one belated request for 2012: Please can you clone Roger, so we can enjoy even more of his articles?

Happy New Year, and I hope 2013 is a great year for everyone!

By: Fritz

Fritz — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 14:15:38 +0000

@Sigma: A while back they produced the Kodak FF DSLR with a Canon mount. If they’d do the same for their present Foveon DSLR, they might get a lot of business from unhappy Canon owners who have too much L lass to switch to Nikon.

By: Kai

Kai — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 06:39:19 +0000

@Esa: A 22nm process will only help the digital circuitry; it won’t help much for analogue circuitry like the A/D converters on the sensor.

By: Esa Tuunanen

Esa Tuunanen — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 23:01:30 +0000

0.18 microns… Only six generations behind process used by Intel. 22nm would fit lot more functionality into pixel level circuitry on sensor. And I remember reading Sony using 65nm process.
But then again what with Canon’s lack of innovation that’s fittingly old tech for them.
Though I suspect there’s lack of available 18 micron fabs unless someone turned one into museum.

Olympus needs hybrid AF, and working one like Nikon 1′s, not like Canon’s it’s hybrid AF but operates no different from CDAF.
CDAF not knowing how much and to which direction focus is amiss is also reason for bad AF compatibility with 4/3 lenses.
With some additional lower end consumer lenses to fill line with high end teles from 4/3 they would have good line up. Actual focus tracking capability is needed anyway.
Another thing would be Pentax astrotracer like feature to make more use out of new IBIS.
And their designers could use book about ergonomics of human hand, they seem to have lost their copy and replaced it with Carl Bark’s Lost in the Andes!

Which is what Panasonic has gotten exactly right in GH3 unlike other mirrorless makers.
Annoying, clumsy and ineffective to use even in good conditions fashion gimmicks and P&S menu surfing aren’t worth a shit in cold… like in exposed fingers cooling in second and freezing in five if there’s slightest wind cold.
Puts fun back to photography when camera has ergonomical grip and actual enthusiast level controls working reasonably well also with gloves.
Now if Panasonic would just get IBIS of Olympus to improve hand held low light capability with fast primes (which never have In Lens IS) and any possible lens you can attach.

Sony again has lenses disproportionate enough to NEX bodies so before even bigger lenses they need ergonomical body or otherwise they need to integrate controls and grip to lens so that camera is just rear cap of the lens which is carried on shoulder like M72 LAW.

By: Dr Croubie

Dr Croubie — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 20:46:02 +0000

If we want Santa to bring a present for Pentax, how about some actual customers? They’ve got great cameras using great Sony sensors with the K5 (ii), the only weather-sealed APS-C kit lens of anyone (that I know of), the AF might not be up to 7D standards but the IQ beats it to hell, and it’s priced like a 60D.
If they need some big superteles to help them get customers, Santa can bring them some of those too.

Speaking of which, can Santa give Canon (or Nikon, or even Sigma/Tamron), some Weather Sealed APS-C kit lenses? Just tell Canon it won’t really cannibalise their L lens sales if that’s all that they’re afraid of (nobody’s going to buy a 7D with only a 24-105 main lens, or even if they are then a Weather Sealed 10-22 would be nice).