How To's
In recent weeks, I’ve started posting some fundamental articles on how to use your camera if you’re starting out. In the past couple weeks, we’ve discussed both how aperture affects your images, and how shutter speed changes your images, so today, we’re going to cover the final piece to that equation, with ISO. But as […]
Equipment
Here I sit, the guy who gets poetic writing about tiny resolution differences in high-priced wide-aperture lenses, having just bought this lens. Its aperture is in the diffraction-softening range. The manufacturer’s (pronounced ‘better than reality’) MTF charts aren’t very good. So why did I buy this pig? Because it could fit a need, of course. Despite the religious […]
New Items
Roger Cicala, Lensrentals founder, is joined by Zach Sutton, Lensrentals Blog Editor and Drew MacCallum, a Technical Information Advisor with Canon USA. They discuss everything involving the newly released R5, from launching it virtually due to the pandemic to tech specs and where it fits as a companion to a primary cinema camera, to how they’ve addressed overheating issues. They also discuss how the entire RF line has evolved so quickly, where it’s headed, and what prompted Roger to finally buy into mirrorless.
Equipment
These past few months have been strange, to say the least. With a global pandemic affecting millions of people around the world, each industry has raced to close down their events and schedule to keep themselves, their staff, and their community safe. Among these cancellations was the NAB show in 2020, which is one of the largest events of the year for video and broadcasting. The result of this cancellation, left a lot of people not hearing of the latest announcements of new cameras, lenses and other tools coming to the video world. So we decided to talk about it in this episode of the podcast, but let’s take a moment and talk about a few of the more interesting products in this post as well. Starting with the…
Equipment
Tamron has a nice set of three f/2.8 zooms for Sony E mount cameras. Today I’m putting out MTF results for the 17-28mm f/2.8 Di III RXD and the 28-75mm f/2.8 Di III RXD. They offer a reasonably priced alternative to Sony-branded lenses, and Tamron has been making good products lately. I’ll admit to a […]
