Lensrentals News and Alerts

Get 5% Back On Keeper Purchases

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  Looking to buy some gear this holiday season but not sure what? Try it, then buy it with Lensrentals Keeper. During the holiday season, we’re adding an extra bonus! Get 5% of your Keeper purchase price back as a rental credit, good towards a future rental. The Details Any Keeper purchase from 12/1/14 – […]

Lensrentals News and Alerts

Black Friday Sale

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It’s time for our 5th annual Black Friday Sale! The sale begins at 8:30 AM CT on Wednesday.  At our sister site, LensAuthority.com, we’ll be giving you 10% off all used equipment. We’ll also be having special deals throughout the sale, so keep your eyes peeled on the Special Deals section and be sure to […]

Equipment

Cracking Open the 7D II

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OK, I have to admit I really like the Canon 7D Mark II. I didn’t want to because it wasn’t what I wanted. I wanted to see the new Canon chip foundry that would be cranking out high-resolution sensors. But despite wanting to hate the 22-megapixel APS-C camera, after a fairly short exposure to the autofocus […]

Humor and Sarcasm

About That 25-300mm f/2.8 You Wanted

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I get an email or text about once a month asking me if I think Canon, Nikon, or some other photo manufacturer will ever make something like a 24-300mm f/2.8 zoom lens. I’m usually gentle with those people, because I realize that a lot of people truly believe that if they want something badly enough, […]

Lenses and Optics

Quick Zeiss 85mm Otus MTF Charts

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Well, we finally got a few copies of Zeiss’ newest Big Ass Lens, the 85mm f/1.4 Otus in Friday afternoon. I didn’t have time to do a whole lot with them other than take a few shots, and run them through the optical bench for MTF testing, so this will be a short post. (Assuming […]

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