Gear
Food photographers, upgrade your modifiers before you upgrade anything else
Jun 25, 2020
Dunja Đuđić
You’ve been into photography for a while, you’ve upgraded your skills, and it’s time to upgrade your gear. If you ask me, that’s always exciting,…
Canon 85mm f/1.2 RF vs. EF: Which one is the winner?
Jun 25, 2020
Dunja Đuđić
The 85mm is the favorite lens of many portrait photographers. The 85mm f/1.2 RF was introduced last year, and it has become a choice of…
You can now shoot giant 187MP images with Leica SL2
Jun 23, 2020
Dunja Đuđić
Then Leica SL2 almost doubles the resolution of its predecessor, the Leica SL: from 24 to 47.3 megapixels. But the latest firmware update allows you…
Photographer regrets buying this gear; what are your regrets?
Jun 22, 2020
Dunja Đuđić
Even if you don’t suffer from the so-called Gear Acquisition Syndrome, I’m sure that you’ve bought some gear that turned out to be a bad…
How much do you really need to worry about damaging your camera’s sensor?
Jun 22, 2020
John Aldred
No, that thumbnail isn’t clickbait – at least not entirely. Photographer Arthur Reutov does indeed take a box cutter blade to a Sony sensor in…
Laowa releases three new 7.5mm, 9mm and 15mm cine lenses for MFT, Super 35 and Full-Frame
Jun 19, 2020
John Aldred
Venus Optics, the company behind Laowa, has announced three new cine lenses. They are the Laowa 7.5mm T2.1 Cine for Micro Four Thirds, the Laowa…
Tokina has released a new flagship 11-20mm f/2.8 CF lens for APS-C DSLRs
Jun 19, 2020
John Aldred
Tokina has announced its new atx-i 11-20mm f/2.8 CF lens for Nikon and Canon APS-C DSLRs. As an APS-C lens, it offers a full-frame field…
Video shows how badly scratches and dirt on your lens affects your photos
Jun 18, 2020
John Aldred
People are paranoid about scratching their lenses. So much so that they’ll actually put filters over the end of them, intentionally degrading the overall image…
Manfrotto’s 504X fluid video head looks like the 504HD and a Nitrotech had a baby
Jun 15, 2020
John Aldred
Manfrotto’s 504HD fluid video head has been extremely popular since it was released about a decade ago. It’s a solid but smooth head that supports…
Here are four camera filters you (maybe) still need for digital photography
Jun 15, 2020
John Aldred
Filters were once common to all but compact and disposable cameras for shooting a vast array of topics. I’ve got about 20 here that I…