History of Photography

Six Degrees of Charles Darwin, and Rejlander’s Last Laugh.

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Six Degrees of Charles Darwin Note: For those offended by such things, there is a small photograph reproduced below that has artistic nudity.  You’re probably familiar with the film-buff game, Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. If not, basically you name any individual who is associated with movies and you should be able to connect that […]

History of Photography

A Most Interesting Photographer

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“I am going to make a name for myself. If I fail, you will never hear of me again.”   Edward Muggeridge I love writing about great photographers. I’m sure there are some exceptions, but in general they tend to be among the oddest and most interesting groups of people on the planet. I thought the […]

New Items

Sigma 35mm f/1.4 Arrives. Announces New World Order.

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OK, I’m beginning to think maybe the Mayans were right. It appears the world is going to transition into something different in 2012. The photography world at least. About 5 years ago, I wrote a blog post explaining that quality control problems and horrid repair service meant we would probably stop carrying Sigma products entirely. […]

Humor and Sarcasm

The Great Hostess Snack Cake Shootout

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It’s a sad and dark day here at Lensrentals. For years, we’ve worked really long hours fueled largely by coffee and snack cakes. Not just any snack cakes, of course. Hostess snack cakes. So today’s very sad news that Hostess is shutting it’s doorsis a devastating blow to us. First Kodak. Now Hostess. What will […]

Lenses and Optics

Canon 24-70 Mk II Variation

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A while back we ran Imatest resolution numbers on a few copies of the Canon 24-70 Mk II. That was right at release time and the resolution was most impressive, but we only had 5 copies available to test. Over the next couple of months a number of reviews came out. Most seemed to consider […]

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