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Canon 85mm f/1.4L Comparison

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Comparing the Canon 85mm f/1.4L IS Against the Competition

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Talk to any photographer who specializes in wedding or portrait photographer, and you’ll get a unanimous agreement as to what the preferred focal length – the 85mm. And with good reason; the 85mm is such an incredible focal length because of the nearly true to life compression it provides (with limited to no barrel distortion), […]

Movi Pro Rentals

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Battle of the Best Gimbals – DJI Ronin 2 vs. Freefly Movi Pro

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When it comes to innovative gimbal designs, Freefly Systems and DJI are at the top of their class. The Movi M10 revolutionized filmmaking for a vast population of shooters (myself included) when it was released in 2013. Across the globe, DJI didn’t waste much time developing the original Ronin – DJI’s less expensive alternative to […]

Testing Best Sharpness of Cine Lenses

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Testing Lenses: Finding The Best Average Focus Point

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You have been patient, my friends. You have made it through the first article, where we looked at how MTFs improve stopped down and saw it was a bit different for every lens. You enjoyed the second article, where we looked at the Best Individual Focus MTF (BIF MTF) which showed how good the MTF […]

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Testing Lenses: Best Individual Focus MTF Curves

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OK, in the last post we did something useful, but rather boring: we looked at how MTF changes when lenses are stopped down. Today we’re going to use a more powerful optical bench tool, the MTF vs. Field vs. Focus. Unless you work in a metrology lab (and probably not even then, very few are performing […]

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