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Do Recent Advancements in Upscaling Make the Megapixel Race Obsolete?

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If you’ve been in the photography world for any amount of time over the last 15 years, you’ve probably heard the term ‘megapixel race’. Starting back in the early 2000s with the dawn of digital photography, the megapixel race was the race in which each manufacturer of cameras, from point-and-shoots, to DSLRs, to smartphones, competed […]

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Testing the Best Ultra-Wide Lenses for the Perseids Meteor Shower

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Meteor showers can be some of the most exciting celestial events to shoot, but they can also be quite the challenge to get a good meteor photo. With about ten years of practicing astrophotography and timelapse, one of the best lessons I’ve learned with increasing chances of a good meteor shot is: go wider, a […]

Lenses and Optics

Sony FE 20mm f/1.8 G Optical Tests

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I haven’t published much optical testing in the last year for many reasons; some obvious, some not. But published or not, we still test things, and occasionally something comes up that I think I need to write up. The Sony FE 20mm f/1.8 G is one of those things. As wide-angle primes go, it’s reasonably priced […]

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MTF Tests of the Tamron 17-28mm and 28-75mm f/2.8 Di III RXD Lenses

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Tamron has a nice set of three f/2.8 zooms for Sony E mount cameras. Today I’m putting out MTF results for the 17-28mm f/2.8 Di III RXD and the 28-75mm f/2.8 Di III RXD. They offer a reasonably priced alternative to Sony-branded lenses, and Tamron has been making good products lately. I’ll admit to a […]

Nikon 120mm-300mm Teardown

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A Peek Inside the AF-S Nikkor 120-300mm f/2.8 FL ED SR VR

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We’ve wanted to look inside the Nikkor AF-S 120-300mm f/2.8 FL ED SR VR lens. When we took apart a Z lens recently, we found Nikon had moved on from their ‘classic’ internal optomechanical and electrical design for a neat, modern design. We were interested to see if newer F lenses would pick that up, or if they would […]

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