Lenses and Optics

Practical Use of Field Curvature Graphs – the 50mm Primes

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In my last two posts (1,2), I’ve been using field curvature graphs to look at how lenses behave as you stop them down. It’s been a fairly limited data set; basically 35mm prime lenses and some zooms at 35mm. I’m going to keep going with this topic and today look at a different focal length […]

Equipment

The Biggest Photography and Videography Announcements for Fall 2019

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Around this time each year, various brands announce their latest and greatest pieces of equipment just in time to fit into everyone’s holiday wishlists. These products are often shown off at Photo Plus Expo, NAB NY, and the various other promotional events that seem to all show up around October and November. And keeping with […]

How to Break a Camera Lens

Podcast Episode

The Lensrentals Podcast – BEST OF: How to Break a Lens

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Roger is joined by our Repair Manager Aaron and Senior Photo Tech Joey to discuss broken lenses, the types of repairs they’ve encountered, what they think can be attempted at home, and how to prevent repairs from being needed in the first place! They dish on which repair center takes the longest to get the gear back from, what environments they can count on to break a lens and advise the best gear for shooting in the rain. In this talk, they reference enjoying working with PhotoTech which is an authorized service center for Canon, Sony, Nikon, FujiFilm, and Sigma.

Customer Stories

How We Determine the Best Equipment For the Job at Zero Point Zero

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We’ve been working with Lensrentals for nearly a decade here at Zero Point Zero Production. Our rentals have run the full gamut: a small battery rental here, a couple of lenses there, all the way to multiple cameras, tripods, media- you name it- on some of our larger shoots. Our equipment department has grown from […]

Podcast Episode

The Lensrentals Podcast Episode #8 – How Early Photographers Turned Silver Into Gold

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We’re looking at the history of photography covering 1840-1870 with David Horan, Professor of Photography and Art History at the University of Memphis. David and Roger discuss the importance of postmortem portraits, how one American president credited the carte de visite with helping him win his election and dispel some of the preconceived notions about the early days of photography.

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