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RED Weapon Helium 8K S35 Hands-on or: DSMC2 and You

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To be perfectly honest, this article started purely as an excuse for me to play with a carbon fiber 8K RED Weapon. I figured I’d take it out for a weekend, shoot some footage, melt my computer trying to edit it, write a hands-on review, and be done with it. Gradually, though, I realized that […]

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An Update and Comparison of the Sony FE 70-200mm f/2.8 GM OSS

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About a month ago, Roger posted his MTF bench results for the Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8E FL ED AF-S VR (TL;DR: it’s optically superb), and down in the comments there were some requests to compare it not only to the Canon 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II in the article, but also to the Sony FE 70-200mm f/2.8 GM […]

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Third Party Ultra-Wide Lenses MTF Comparison

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Contrary to what most people believe, we do pay some attention when people ask us to do MTF testing on certain lenses. I’m not saying we do it, but we do pay attention to the requests and when we have some downtime will look at that request lists and see if there’s something on it […]

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Front Element Lens Protection Revisited

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The internet is an interesting resource. Once you’ve put a reference up, it’s there forever. Over time, things may change, but that 10-year-old article doesn’t. A few weeks ago someone used some old articles I’d written (1, 2, 3) as a reason why he doesn’t use protective UV filters. They claimed I had said there was no need […]

Most Rented Photography Gear 2016

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The Best and Most Rented Photography Gear of 2016

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2016 was an exciting year here at Lensrentals.com. With dozens of new products from all different types of companies, we’ve been introduced to a lot of really incredible new tech to help us do our work better. Each year, as a tradition, we celebrate these new products, by sharing with you the best and most […]

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