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The Lensrentals Podcast Episode #29 – How Lensrentals Picks New Gear

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Today on the Lensrentals podcast, we speak with Video Product Development Supervisor Ally Aycock Patterson, Product Page Supervisor Josh Richardson, and Photo and Lighting Product Supervisor Bryce Robbins to discuss what goes into selecting products within Lensrentals inventory. With nearly 320,000 individual products available to rent within our inventory, it’s certainly no surprise that a lot goes into selecting which products to carry and how many copies. So let’s talk about it.

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

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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.

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Product Spotlight: Tentacle Sync E

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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

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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 […]

Taking Apart Canon R5

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Taking Apart the Canon EOS R5 Mirrorless Camera

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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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