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The Lensrentals Podcast Episode #18 – How to Break a Video Camera
Each week Roger Cicala, founder of Lensrentals.com, hosts conversations about the art and science of capturing images. From photography to videography, film, history, and technology, the show covers a wide range of topics to educate and inspire creators of all kinds. *How to Break a Video Camera*…
The Lensrentals Podcast Episode #17 – How Rick Sammon Creates Killer Travel Images
Each week Roger Cicala, founder of Lensrentals.com, hosts conversations about the art and science of capturing images. From photography to videography, film, history, and technology, the show covers a wide range of topics to educate and inspire creators of all kinds. How Rick Sammon Creates Killer…
Distinguishing the Differences in the Atomos Line of Recorders & Monitors
Atomos is an Australian company well known for its wide variety of monitors and recorders. Not only do you have the ability to record, but change the look of your shot in-monitor in Look Up Tables (or LUTs) to streamline with editing. In some instances you can stream four cameras into one monitor…
The Lensrentals Podcast – BEST OF: Women’s Weekend Film Challenge
Each week Roger Cicala, founder of Lensrentals.com, hosts conversations about the art and science of capturing images. From photography to videography, film, history, and technology, the show covers a wide range of topics to educate and inspire creators of all kinds. Best Of: Women’s Weekend Film…
The Lensrentals Podcast Episode #15 – How Lighting is Evolving with NoFilmSchool’s Charles Haine
Each week Roger Cicala, founder of Lensrentals.com, hosts conversations about the art and science of capturing images. From photography to videography, film, history, and technology, the show covers a wide range of topics to educate and inspire creators of all kinds. How Lighting is Evolving with…
Practical Use of Field Curvature: Wide and Telephoto Primes
We introduced evaluating field curvature with 35mm f/1.4 lenses, then looked at how those differ from slower 35mm primes and zooms at the same focal lengths. Then we got into some practical stuff, showing how field curvature gives you useful information for 50mm lenses. Today we’re going to look at…
The Lensrentals Podcast – BEST OF: How to Break a Camera
Each week Roger Cicala, founder of Lensrentals.com, hosts conversations about the art and science of capturing images. From photography to videography, film, history, and technology, the show covers a wide range of topics to educate and inspire creators of all kinds. ** BEST OF: How to Break a…
First Impressions with the Fuji X-Pro3
Fujis have always been the dark horse of the mirrorless camera realm, and it all began with the Fuji X100. A small, APS-C, non-interchangeable lens mirrorless camera that arguably took the digital camera world by storm. This camera got the ball rolling for Fuji. It had unique (for the time) retro…
The Lensrentals Podcast Episode #13 – How to do Everything with Scott Kelby
Each week Roger Cicala, founder of Lensrentals.com, hosts conversations about the art and science of capturing images. From photography to videography, film, history, and technology, the show covers a wide range of topics to educate and inspire creators of all kinds. ** How to do Everything with…
Finally, the Nikon Z 24-70mm f/2.8 S Lens Teardown
Just so you know, my original title was “_Lens Disassembly is a Complicated Profession. Don’t You Agree?_” The editor said nobody would know what the post was about. But I promise, you’ll see by the end of this; lens disassembly is a complicated profession. We were interested in this disassembly,…
The Lensrentals Podcast Bonus Episode – 2019 Gear in Review: Bests and Busts
Each week Roger Cicala, founder of Lensrentals.com, hosts conversations about the art and science of capturing images. From photography to videography, film, history, and technology, the show covers a wide range of topics to educate and inspire creators of all kinds. ** 2019 Gear in Review: Bests…
The Most Important Photo and Video Products of the Last Decade
This past week marks not only a new year but a new decade as well. As usual, with this time of the year, we find ourselves in reflection and motivated to see what the new year (and in this case, new decade) will bring. In the previous couple weeks, you’ve seen us present our end of the year data…