Last week my Nikkor Z 100-400 arrived. I’m in principle upgrading from the AF-S 80-400G, which has been my all-time favourite lens (both sentimentally and in terms of the yielding the greatest proportion of my favourite photos). Of course, it’d be nice to see how those two lenses actually compare – I suppose I could … Read more
Normally I’d just post a review like this on the merchant’s website – in this case Amazon. Yet perplexingly when I tried to do so, I was given the error message: Sorry, we are unable to accept reviews for this product. This product has limitations on submitting reviews. There can be a number of reasons … Read more
I found this post in the ‘Drafts’ folder from 2013 – evidently I started writing, got distracted, and forgot about it. It’s interesting to me even now because the aesthetics of iOS have been stuck in iOS 7 ever since. I still don’t like the look, the design language, how many things operate – the … Read more
Having spent a week or so using the Z7 – though still not as much as I’d like, given the continued need to work for a living – I have some further thoughts, beyond / expanding upon my very first impressions. Autofocus Photo mode Autofocus is a problem. It is very clear that the Z7’s AF … Read more
This is in the context of coming from a D500 (and a number of DX DSLRs prior to that), and is based only on the first hour or so of using it. No XQD card included in the U.S.A. This is disappointing, since it appears that every other country on the planet is getting XQD … Read more
More thoughts in no particular order: The fan control algorithm is a bit amateur. It oscillates back and forth in frequency at a high enough frequency (0.1-0.2 Hz) – and with significant range – that it’s quite noticeable, audibly, and sometimes distracting. For some reason the full-load CPU frequency on my machine has dropped from … Read more
10-core w/ Vega64. Upgrading from a 2014 Retina iMac. Relatively briefly, and in no particular order: I don’t see why the very slightly different colour scheme, vs the regular iMacs, is such a big deal to some people. Yes, it’s fairly obviously a different colour. No, it doesn’t really look any better (nor worse) than … Read more