Lensrentals News and Alerts
On May 7th, our customer service manager, Sharon Perez, passed away unexpectedly. Sharon was a wonderful friend and co-worker for the past 4 1/2 years. She was an integral part of our Lensrentals family and she will be sorely missed by all of us. Out of respect for our friend Sharon, and to allow her […]
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I want to give credit to Canon for so quickly handling the problem we first reported with some T6 sensors. We announced the problem on April 30th, and within 10 days Canon had determined which cameras were affected (those with Serial Numbers beginning with “01 or “02”) and issued a product alert. Let me add […]
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Time to trash the adapters? Sony has just released a new line of full frame FE lenses that will hopefully eliminate the need to use adapters with lenses from other systems. We just received the Sony FE 35mm F/1.4 ZA Distagon which has the largest aperture in the lineup and we couldn’t wait to have a […]
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Or, What I Did Over Winter Slow Season Those of you who read my blog regularly know I’m not a huge fan of sameness. But new lens releases, lately, have tended to have a lot of sameness. Don’t get me wrong, there have been some excellent lenses released; marked improvements and refinements have taken place. […]
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For those of you who haven’t read our ‘Just the Lenses’ posts before, these take advantage of our Trioptics Imagemaster optical bench to compare lenses from different camera mounts with no camera involved. Why is that different? Because all other forms of testing (DxO, Imatest, or even photography) tests the camera-lens combination. Sensor architecture, micro […]
