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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…
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…
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…
How to Not Check for Ghosts in Equipment
Someone remarked the other day that sometimes our equipment gets used in the recording of the various “Find the Ghost” or Check-Out-This-Haunted house TV shows. Someone else became concerned that if our gear was exposed like this, maybe some of it came back haunted or contaminated by malevolent…
The Shutter Sounds of Our Most Popular Cameras
As a leading authority on optical testing and product reviews, it occurred to the Lensrentals staff recently that we owed it to The Internet to explore the final frontier of camera comparisons, a comprehensive examination of shutter sounds. Our thorough and scientific testing covered multiple…
How to Use an X-Rite ColorChecker to Get Perfect Color
Often times, we’re digging through our always evolving inventory to find exciting products to talk about and share our experiences with said product. While it’s easy to focus our attention on the latest lens offering from the Sigma Art Series, or something like the RED Ranger, sometimes it’s…
Just the Cinema Lens MTF Charts: Canon and Sigma
We’re going to continue the Cinema prime MTFs with the Canon and Sigma lenses. Again, we’re not going in any particular order, other than what we have handy and what fits reasonably into a single post. Since these are among our most popular cinema lenses, we do generally have at least a 10-copy set…
Just the Cinema Lens MTF Charts: Xeen and Schneider
We’ve completed the MTF postings for all of the photo prime lenses. Now we’re going to start with the Cinema primes. For a lot of those that also have a photo version, the optics should be identical. That’s not always the case, however. Plus, the people interested in Cinema lenses aren’t usually…
Just the MTF Charts: Micro 4/3 Lenses
Not a lot to say specifically about the m4/3 lenses except please don’t ask why your favorite isn’t on here; this is all I’ve got. Some of the newer m4/3 have linear electronic focusing which can’t be tested on the bench without a specialized, expensive mount and we don’t have one. Even for the…
Make Your Videos Better With a Simple Understanding of Video Lighting
Creating videos can be a very complicated and cumbersome process, but can be very rewarded when done correctly. Between framerates, sound, codecs, and color grading, there certainly is a lot of technicals to learn when it comes to video, but one of the most important traditional techniques you can…
About Getting Your Camera Wet… Teardown of a Salty Sony A7sII
People think that because I expect the worst and try to prepare for it, that I’m negative. That’s not it at all. I’m not a negative person; I’m cheerfully cynical. If I expect the worst and it doesn’t happen, I’m happy because things went better than I expected. If I expect the worst and it does…
Save 20% This Summer!
Beginning on Monday: It’s our longest and largest summer promotion ever! Get 20% off all orders arriving through the end of August. The Nuts & Bolts - Eligible arrival dates are July 13th – August 31st - Must use the code SUMMER20 - Not combinable with any other offers - Discount applies to rental…