Repair alerts
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 […]
Humor and Sarcasm
Not to be left out of the spirit of Photokina, Lensrentals today announced it’s first new camera design: the Lensrentals Looney.
Roger's Corner
In the days leading to Photokina, it seems that every manufacturer on the planet has announced at least one new camera. Keeping up with the myriad announcements has been trying for us, and we get paid to do it! So for all of you that don’t have the luxury of being paid to follow camera […]
Technical Discussions
I started this series to simply demonstrate a well-known fact; that contrast detection autofocus in Live View was more accurate than standard Phase Detection autofocus for still subjects. It ended up being a bit more than I’d bargained for just with the Canon cameras. After that series was done, I promised several people that I […]
Teardowns and Disassembly
You probably know we got 5 copies of the Canon 24-70 f/2.8 II today and did some resolution testing before they all shipped out. If you read this blog often, you probably know that Aaron and I gave every lens a careful shake, peered inside, and generally looked for any possible excuse to open one […]
