History of Photography

The Most Honored Photograph

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Photograph in public domain, this copy from Naval Aviation Museum   Doesn’t look like much, does it? But, depending upon your definition, this photograph, a team effort by 9 men, is the most honored picture in U. S. History. If you want to find out about it, read on. It’s an interesting tale about how […]

Roger's Corner

The First Annual Photogeek Geek Photo Contest

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I’ve been writing a lot of geeky testing stuff for the last couple of weeks, most of which can be summed up as ‘take some pictures; if they look good everything is fine.’ So last weekend, I went out and took some pictures. It was pretty fun. So much fun that I thought maybe I […]

Technical Discussions

Bad Times with Bad Filters

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A long time ago I wrote a blog post called Good Times with Bad Filters about how cheap UV protective filters are different from good ones. It was mostly in fun. Today I’ve got a post about how cheap UV filters may hurt your lens. It’s not in fun. Here at Lensrentals we see lenses […]

Lenses and Optics

There Is No Perfect Lens Test, Either

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In my last article, I wrote about the fact that every copy of a given lens has some bit of sample variation. This affects lens reviews, whether lab-based or photography-based, because the copy they tested will be just a bit different from the copy you buy. I suggested, that if you want to get a […]

Lenses and Optics

There Is No Free Lunch, Episode 763: Lens Adapters

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Lens adapters can be useful things sometimes, letting you mount one brand of lens on another brand of camera. One thing that has always bothered me, though, is the idea of doubling the number of lens-mount interfaces. When you look at the thick metal pieces on the front of the camera and the back of […]

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