Equipment
We got stock on two new 70-200mm lenses this week: the Nikon 70-200 f/4 VR and the Tamron 70-200 f/2.8 VC. I would have loved to do some side-by-side comparisons. They’re priced similarly and I expect a lot of Nikon shooters will be choosing between these two since both are quite a bit less expensive […]
Other
It’s time for my annual ‘stuff for the photographer on your Christmas list’ blog post. I realize that for most of you, well, you are the photographer on your Christmas list. So I’ve added a section of some different photo gifts you could make. There are no cameras on the list for a two reasons. […]
Teardowns and Disassembly
Of course we had to do it. We tried limiting ourselves to some size comparisons with the 5D II and 5D III. So, yeah, the 6d is smaller and all. But that wasn’t quite what we wanted to see. So, as is our habit, a few screws here and a few screws there and […]
New Items
A while back we did a series of articles and found that certain Canon lenses on the newest Canon cameras (5DIII and 1Dx) autofocused more accurately when tested for single shot stills using center point AF only. These combinations acutally had as accurate AF as what we could obtain with Live View. To emphasize, though, […]
Other
A while back, I started an article on this topic with the sentence “We tend not to get too excited about sensor dust problems here; we clean sensors on every camera after every rental, so it’s just routine.” Unfortunately, it seems that everybody else did get excited. Some people freaked out and ran screaming to […]
