Equipment

The Lensrentals Podcast Episode #28 – How to Get Started Live Streaming

By Lensrentals

Live streaming has gone from fairly niche to vitally necessary very quickly over the past few months. Ryan is joined by Josh and Ally to get specific on how to begin live streaming if you’re new to the game, and some advanced options for those more versed in video. We’ve spoken about Live streaming in our blog a few times, with Justin’s Guide to Live Streaming, and Joshua’s own guide on the topic a few years ago. But live streaming is always evolving, and getting more and more complicated with each generation.

Equipment

Product Spotlight: Tentacle Sync E

By Ryan Hill

The quickest way to capture the hearts of techs at Lensrentals is to design your product to be easy to use. Multiple thousands of items per day pass through the tech room, and they’re each individually inspected by actual human beings. Often a tech will have to check a hundred or more things per day. […]

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Investigating the Canon R5 Heat Emission

By Roger Cicala

ADDENDUM: I should have mentioned in the text, all testing was done at 73°F (22.75C) ambient temperature.  Lots and lots of people are talking about Canon R5 heat cut-offs. The discussions range from technical discussions about heat generation, cooling methods, and firmware protocols to strident conspiracy theories. I only know a little bit about heat: Electronics […]

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Taking Apart the Canon EOS R5 Mirrorless Camera

By Roger Cicala

Let’s get one thing out of the way in the first sentence. If you’re here to understand the mysteries of thermal flow in the Canon R5 I can tell you everything I know without doing a teardown: It’s small, it’s weather-sealed, and photo-body cameras have limited ability to get heat out of the camera. I am […]

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The Lensrentals Podcast Episode #27 – Making Retouching More Accessible with Sef McCullough

By Lensrentals

Retouching isn’t something we regularly talk about on our blog or our podcast. Here at Lensrentals.com, we’re all about gear, and the tools you can use to help create your images. But still, retouching is a very big puzzle piece to the whole picture, and we figured it was finally a piece we should address. And we also thought that there was no better person to talk about retouching with more than Sef McCullough.