Recent content by FrozenRiver

诸葛亮？

Hi. I have to lenses to be sent for service at NSC. The first one is the ancient 35-70 f/2.8. Surely it is out of warranty. There is some fungus growing inside it. Plus I dropped it last Saturday early morning on some wet grass in Chinese garden. Now all pictures from this lens are covered by...

If you need large aperture, you need large aperture; if you need image stabilization, you can always opt for a tripod. My 0.02.

To my eyes, the left picture is sharper and more contrasty. So which is which?

My friend got this price when she was wandering around in Chinatown, and was very tempted by it. My question is, is this realistic? I know that there is a price guide here. But since this is real time update, it is probably not reflected in the price guide. You guys have any idea? Can this be...

Among all threads that I've posted in CS, this is by far the most popular one. Thanks for all the suggestions. These make this thread very informative for people like me. And thanks goes to those confusions ;), too... I had some good laughs. Now I am over my FF-syndrome. But please continue the...

man, you are the king of abbreviations.

Yes... And I can fully understand why he does all these funny things. He lives off his website. So he needs some way to excite the readers (aka us), to attract more eyes... He does previews of lenses so that people will buy them via links on his website. He didn't think much of the...

I remember clearly that he was reviewing 50 f/1.8G and 40 f/2.8G Micro DX before they actually hit the market. He was making statements such as "this lens should be very sharp" or sth like that.

My poisons came from viewing the following two images: To me, enough is said. Please make your own judgement.

That was my guess. Thanks for the confirmation!

Thanks for the information. I think you are right.

You are right. At this stage my skills (compositional, lighting, and pp) are the limiting factors. Thanks... BTW, low lSO performance of CF and FF are after all different. You can check out some online reviews.

I was poisoned precisely by the low ISO performance of the FF camera...

Thanks for your suggestions and offering... I am not upgrading right now. Thanks again.