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I haven't tried it, but there's according to some reviews the old Samyang or Centon 500 mm mirror lens is a really bad and nearly useless in practice.

Not that fast... Tamron made a 350 mm F/5.6 back in the day and there has also been some 500 mm F/5.6 lenses. Typically 500 mm mirror lenses were F/8, so this new Samyang lens is pretty much average.

Not that fast... Tamron made a 350 mm f/5.6 back in the day and there has also been some 500 mm f/5.6 lenses. Typically 500 mm mirror lenses were f/8, so this new Samyang lens is pretty much average.

What I really love about Leica is that the leather never-ready case has a cutout where the Leica badge is, so everyone can see the brand of your camera easily ;-)

Yeah, it's still used where space is tight, although for most purposes (=more than 256 color is needed) either JPG or PNG is much superior.

3.28 ft = 10 meters...

The ultracompacts are not a new phenomenon. For example the main selling point of folded optics cameras has been the thinness for some time now. Unfortunately you still can't get to modern...

I suppose it would have been the Powershot N, which has WiFi, uploading to social media and a companion smartphone app. It's also pretty small but still has an 8x zoom. It's an interesting idea...

Super/travelzooms still probably have higher margins than cheap P&S. They share mostly the same electronics and small 1/2.33" sensors (=dirt cheap today), but have more expensive optics. However,...

Super/travelzooms probably have higher profit margins than cheap P&S. They share mostly the same electronics and small 1/2.33" sensors (=dirt cheap today), but have more expensive optics. However,...

To be fair, cell phone camera quality in general still does not surpass even the cheap compacts. Quite the contrary in fact; my four year old cheap Canon A1000 IS still beats my Sony Xperia acro S...

I don't think you can make such a long zoom easily with folding optics. They seem to have something like 5x zooms at the most, and of course folding optics are a big compromise quality-wise.

On the other hand, look how HUGE the Fujifilm X-S1 is. It has a longer zoom (24-634mm) than you are suggesting, but on the other hand it has "only" a 2/3" sensor and f/2.8-f/5.6. This suggest to...

Not since sub-$200 P&S became commonplace. The competition in that segment was intense even before smartphones became a major competitor, which inevitable meant smaller profit margins. Everybody...

They are not (yet) deleting the mid-range P&S cameras and superzooms, namely the S-series or the T-series ruggedized cameras. They even just extended the "enthusiast" ZX-series to the mid-range...

Like I have said before, I don't think low end P&S will be totally replaced by smartphones as long as the latter don't have optical zooms. While the effect of smartphones on low end P&S sales is...

The problem with Photoshop and the rest of the CS is that they are expensive, which encourages pirating. However, they are specialized niche software, so Adobe really can't sell them at very...

Actually, I think it refers to the practice of coloring unexplored areas black in 19th century maps. Unexplored by white Westerners, that is.

It appears to me that if there really is a 4 MP sensor in the HTC One, it caters shamelessly to people with the 'larger pixels are better' fallacy. It's still surprisingly prevalent even after...

Nokia is still the leader of phone camera technology. Was already 10 years ago and still is. As for the popularity contest, Nokia N and E series smartphones were extremely popular everywhere...