Category: Equipment
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Zen and the Art of Remote Presentation – Guide to Live Streaming
Like many of us at Lensrentals, people across the country are hunkered down at home either by choice or by local mandate in an effort to help slow the spread of COVID-19. This has created new challenges in how we work, how we learn, and how we experience the world around us. What were once face to…
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Photo and Video Products to Check Out During Isolation
We’re dealing with a very serious matter globally, which has led most of us to practice social isolation until further notice. While this COVID-19 outbreak is incredibly scary, it also has afforded us a lot of free time to sharpen our skills and find new ways to express our creativity. Earlier last…
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How to Disinfect Camera Equipment and Spaces
I’m qualified to talk about this subject to some degree; I take care of a ton of camera equipment, and I was a physician in my past life. And I’ve had so many requests for information about this that it seems logical to put something out, so everyone has access to it. That being said, at this…
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Review of the Canon RF 85mm f/1.2L DS with Defocus Smoothing
This past fall, we had listed our favorite gear for the year 2019, and I personally did something different. I listed the Canon RF 85mm f/1.2L DS and openly spoke about how I hadn’t even used it but was excited nonetheless of the new technology being put forth into the Canon RF series of lenses.…
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Distinguishing the Differences in the Atomos Line of Recorders & Monitors
Atomos is an Australian company well known for its wide variety of monitors and recorders. Not only do you have the ability to record, but change the look of your shot in-monitor in Look Up Tables (or LUTs) to streamline with editing. In some instances you can stream four cameras into one monitor…
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Practical Use of Field Curvature: Wide and Telephoto Primes
We introduced evaluating field curvature with 35mm f/1.4 lenses, then looked at how those differ from slower 35mm primes and zooms at the same focal lengths. Then we got into some practical stuff, showing how field curvature gives you useful information for 50mm lenses. Today we’re going to look at…
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First Impressions with the Fuji X-Pro3
Fujis have always been the dark horse of the mirrorless camera realm, and it all began with the Fuji X100. A small, APS-C, non-interchangeable lens mirrorless camera that arguably took the digital camera world by storm. This camera got the ball rolling for Fuji. It had unique (for the time) retro…
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Finally, the Nikon Z 24-70mm f/2.8 S Lens Teardown
Just so you know, my original title was “_Lens Disassembly is a Complicated Profession. Don’t You Agree?_” The editor said nobody would know what the post was about. But I promise, you’ll see by the end of this; lens disassembly is a complicated profession. We were interested in this disassembly,…
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The Most Important Photo and Video Products of the Last Decade
This past week marks not only a new year but a new decade as well. As usual, with this time of the year, we find ourselves in reflection and motivated to see what the new year (and in this case, new decade) will bring. In the previous couple weeks, you’ve seen us present our end of the year data…
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Staff Picks of the Best New Photo and Video Products of 2019
Last week, we shared some of our end of the year data for 2019, highlighting some of the many trends that are taking place in the photo and video industries. While I recommend you to look through the data presented in that article, some of the trends we saw were that the staple focal lenses…
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Most Popular Photography and Videography Rentals for 2019
As per tradition here at Lensrentals.com, at the end of the year, we go through all of our records and use that to provide the public with some insight on the industry and where it is going. Through this record-keeping, we’re able to provide some information on what is the most popular rented gear…
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The Shutter Sounds of Our Most Popular Cameras Part 2
A few months ago, while testing out audio equipment for our now released podcast (available on iTunes, Youtube, and Spotify), we decided to take some of our most popular cameras into our sound booth, and give them the ASMR treatment. For those unacquainted, ASMR refers to autonomous sensory…
