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Guide to Photographing The Solar Eclipse on August 21st 2017

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On August 21st, 2017, a solar eclipse will be happening throughout the United States, which has created a lot of excitement and questions from our readers and customers. As a result, I wanted to put together a small guide on how to properly and safely photograph this incredibly rare event. Let’s get out and photograph […]

Sigma 24-70mm Art Series Review

Lenses and Optics

Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 DG OS HSM Art Sharpness Tests

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Sigma has been on an incredible run these last 5 years, releasing one amazingly sharp lens after another. They’ve made lenses no one has ever tried before and not only succeeded, they made them amazingly good on the first try. Their quality control has become as good as anyone’s, better than most. And their repair […]

Sigma 14mm MTF Tests

Equipment

Sharpness Tests of the Sigma 14mm f/1.8 DG HSM Art

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We’ve had a number of fun, new lenses to test this summer and one I was pretty eager to get to was the Sigma 14mm f/1.8 Art, for a couple of reasons. First of all, it’s a 14mm lens that has a wider aperture than f/2.8, and that’s certainly interesting. Second, it’s a new Sigma […]

Sony 85mm MTF Testing

Equipment

Sharpness Tests of the Sony FE 85mm f/1.8

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Sony released the Sony FE 85mm f/1.8  lens a while ago, and while it’s the kind of lens I generally love, we just now got enough time freed up to test it and present the results. As with most brands, and 85mm f/1.8 lens gives a lot of the advantages of a fast prime while […]

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Sony FE 12-24mm f/4 G MTF Tests

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I usually don’t do any prerelease testing. Mostly that’s because manufacturers will send one prerelease copy to a reviewer. If you tell them you won’t test less than ten copies they look at you like, well, I don’t know what they look at you like because I only communicate by email. But they say nope; you […]

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