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The Lensrentals Podcast Episode #56 – Why You Can’t Trust Weather Sealing w/ Chris Gampat of The Phoblographer
Each week Roger Cicala, founder of Lensrentals.com, hosts conversations about the art and science of capturing images. From photography to videography, film, history, and technology, the show covers a wide range of topics to educate and inspire creators of all kinds. ## Why You Can’t Trust Weather…
Reviewing the Zoom G11 Multi-Effects Processor Guitar Pedal
Here at Lensrentals, we cover a lot of production equipment for photo and video productions. But as you start diving into audio equipment for TV and Film, you then start bleeding into the podcast industry, and before you know it, you’ve dipped your toes into the music side of things as well. And…
The Lensrentals Podcast Episode #55 – Battle of the Flagships: Canon R3 vs. Nikon Z9 vs. Sony A1
Each week Roger Cicala, founder of Lensrentals.com, hosts conversations about the art and science of capturing images. From photography to videography, film, history, and technology, the show covers a wide range of topics to educate and inspire creators of all kinds. ## Battle of the Flagships:…
Quiz: RED Camera Name, American Gladiator Name, or Both?
In the past, we’ve put out several April Fools day posts, from Roger explaining how to find the perfect brick wall to test your lenses with the utmost accuracy, to him explaining the new numerical analysis system employed to find which lens is truly the sharpest. This year, instead of teasing our…
Disassembling the Lumix S Pro R70-200mm f/4 OIS
We’ve been impressed with most of the lenses that have come out for the L mount cameras but haven’t taken many of them apart. But as luck would have it, we have several Panasonic Lumix Pro 70-200mm f/4 OIS lenses needing repairs for autofocus issues. In the U. S., Panasonic doesn’t offer repair…
Comparing a Ten-Year-Old Camera to a Modern One
This month marks ten years for the Canon 5D Mark III – a camera once known as the top of the line, now superseded by a couple of different camera generations. With March of 2022 being its ten-year birthday, I thought I’d do a fun little comparison to see how far we’ve come in these ten years, and…
Customer Stories – How Shannon Corsi Brings Winter Sports to Life
With the 2022 Winter Olympics having just recently wrapped, people everywhere have a newfound respect for winter sports athletes. However, that respect is nothing new for the person we’re highlighting for our Customer Story today – photographer, producer, and director, Shannon Corsi. I’ve…
A Brief History of Early Lenses: Part 1
### Things Have Been Around Longer Than You Think We are all recent-centric. We tend to think the technology we use didn’t exist until last year or so, even though the roots of it go way back. Phone apps are a great example. I have a dozen little apps on that phone that do things like calculate…
Mirrorless Camera Guide for 2022
We’re already a month into the new year, and if our end-of-the-year data has anything to say, it seems that a lot of photographers and videographers (including myself) moved over to the mirrorless platforms in 2021. With each of the brands bringing their full attention to the mirrorless platform,…
Why Manufacturers Make a Specific Camera Lens
### A Camel is a Horse Designed by Committee There is a lot of online discussion about why a manufacturer made this lens when they so obviously needed to make that other lens. Or why this manufacturer’s design is better than that manufacturer’s magical solutions. So, I thought I’d share the…
Customer Story – How Philip Grossman Uncovers the Mysteries of Chernobyl
I’ve always had a fascination with abandoned buildings – and it’s actually how I got my start in photography. Sifting through old and abandoned warehouses and paper mills is a pretty common thing when growing up in the midwest, and always gave me an excuse to have a camera strapped to my neck,…
The Best Budget Lenses for Mirrorless Cameras for 2022
It’s without question, mirrorless is the future for photography. Canon and Nikon have more or less stopped the production on their DSLR platforms, and Sony and Fujifilm have been focused on the mirrorless market for a few years now. And while the mirrorless platforms have several advantages over…