Lenses and Optics

Some Mirrorless 5X Macro Fun. (Too much fun, actually).

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I generally don’t write separate reviews on items. I put a ‘take’ up on most items we rent, letting people know what I think about it. That lets me be neutral because it doesn’t make me any difference what people rent as long as they’re happy with it: the return on a $10,000 lens and […]

Equipment

Wide-Angle Micro 4/3 Imatest Results

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Note: The results for standard range m4/3 lenses and zooms at 25mm are in the next article. A lot of Sony users liked seeing some Imatest results for NEX lenses, and some micro 4/3 users asked us to do the same thing. That’s a more complicated undertaking for several reasons. First, there is a much […]

Lensrentals News and Alerts

We’ve Changed (New Site)

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You may have noticed things look a little bit different around here. Welcome! As always, it is our goal to be the best rental company in the business. As part of that, we want to have the easiest to use and all-around best website of any rental company. So, over the past two years since […]

Teardowns and Disassembly

The Fix is In

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We got our first “new” Canon 5D Mk III cameras today, the ones with the light leak fixed. You know me, I thought perhaps it would be a good idea to take one apart and see what was different. I had photos from the ‘prefixed’ 5D IIIs from a previous post, so comparison would be […]

Resolution Tests

Quick Tamron 24-70 MTF Data

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We got a couple of Tamron 24-70 f/2.8 VC in Canon mount today and I was able to compare them, very briefly, with the Canon 24-70 f/2.8 L. The Tamron is not quite the range of the Canon on the long end, clearly a few mm shorter than Canon (which is clearly a couple of […]

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