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Quick Look at the Olympus 60mm f/2.8 Macro

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Tyler, as Tyler does, handed me three copies of the Olympus 60mm f/2.8 Macro lens this morning. It wasn’t a great day for testing; Wednesdays are always the busiest repair and turnaround day. But I did manage to squeeze in  a couple of hours with them.    

Resolution Tests

Why Aren’t the Damn Numbers the Same????

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I get asked a simple question almost every day: Why do your results say this, Joe’s results say that, and Bill’s results say something different? The questions surprised me at first; I grew up in biological and medical research and took it for granted everyone expected different tests to have slightly different results. But different […]

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The Tutu Project

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Bob Carey has been a customer of ours since 2008. When we first talked to Bob, The Tutu Project was already well underway. We were moved by his images, and his devotion to his wife. Somewhere between then and now, The Tutu Project went viral. We couldn’t be happier for Linda and Bob to get […]

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Lensrentals Repair Data: January – July 2012

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    What Is This? We have a unique opportunity: We own a very large number of lenses subjected to rather harsh conditions. They get tossed around during shipping, and sometimes the user isn’t as careful with them as you would be with your own lenses. Basically, we have a laboratory set up to stress […]

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