Here are the pre-order links to those Sony "superlights," for those who are interested—Sony's new trio of smaller, lighter, more compact full-frame primes.
(And please, Internet, please stop shooting every lens wide open all the time no matter what, will you please? Let's see at least a few tests of these lenses at ƒ5.6 and ƒ/8.... —Jaded but hip old-guy Photo Dawg)
Mike
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Phil Martin: "Agreed—for landscape, both suburban and urban, I rarely shoot at apertures wider than ƒ/5.6, and it's the quality in the ƒ/5.6–ƒ/11 range that concerns me most."
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No, it didn't. You had a logic board failure. Software such as USBOverdrive cannot cause that to happen.
You can damage a logic board by improperly plugging in a USB device -- such as a mouse or RF adaptor for a wireless mouse. Or there could be an issue with the RF adaptor itself.
Posted by: DavidB | Wednesday, 24 March 2021 at 12:00 PM
The other reason to stop down a bit is that while many new lenses are good wide open , they can often be astonishingly good at f/5.6 or 8, and you don’t get pictures that call attention to themselves for “technical” reasons.
I like good bokeh as much as the next guy, and use it to help isolate subjects against busy backgrounds, but then try to ask myself can I move a bit to change the background enough to be able to use a smaller aperture.
It doesn’t always work and is not always the best way ,..... but sometimes it is.
Posted by: Michael J. Perini | Thursday, 25 March 2021 at 01:03 PM
I think these lenses have been made with Sony's new drone in mind. I don't think bokeh and drone photography have yet met.
Posted by: William Furniss | Tuesday, 30 March 2021 at 09:06 AM