Shane Hurlbut talks how different lenses handle contrast and tones can help you shade the story you’re trying to make. “The camera is a tool, but the glass serves as your eyes into the story.” The lens’ traits can help tell your story. The look and feel of lenses, their characteristics of color and contrast Read MoreRead More
The Fujinon 4k Premiere Zooms are some serious pieces of glass and steel. There’s a reason why these things go for $90,000 each – ’cause they’re worth it. Now bear in mind, these aren’t for all situations. You have to be doing essentially studio style shooting, on sticks or dolly and want that flexibility to Read MoreRead More
Battle of the Bokeh is back and we’re looking at some fast 35mm lenses from Canon, Nikon and Sigma with the Canon 35mm 1.4L (http://bit.ly/ca35f14), Nikon 35mm G AF-S (http://bit.ly/n35f14g) and Sigma 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM (http://bit.ly/s35f14d), respectively.Read More
Don’t throw away those Silica Gel Packets you get in the dry packaged products – you can use those to absorb moisture and protect your lens from fungus. The most crucial thing about not getting fungi on your lens is to keep it dry. Not just dry-in-a-dry-cabinet kind of dry, but dry-like-the-desert kinda dry, since Read MoreRead More
Using a polarizing filter in your landscape photography is a great way to darken skies and create images with real impact. These 4 tips for using a polarizing filter will help get you started right. Polarizing filters have a number of uses, but one of the most basic is to darken blue skies. This can Read MoreRead More
Inside the Sigma Plant Inside the Nikon Lens Plant Via FStoppersRead More
Jonah from Magnanimous Media compares Canon Still lenses with CN-E lenses. DPs Scott Regan and Teddy Hoffman joined in playing with the new Canon CN-E Cine Primes on the C300, Scarlet-X and AF100.Read More
Ryan Connolly looks at the anamorphic offerings from Vid-Atlantic including lenses and filters.Read More
The always entertaining and informative Kevin Good and Weapons of Mass Production pits a four brands of 24-70mm F2.8 lens (Canon, Nikon, Tamron and Sigma) and compares these lens on their sharpness, bokeh, and features.Read More
You may have heard it before – every lens has a preferred f-stop where it takes the sharpest and clearest picture… but how do you tell? What is a lens sweet spot? It’s something you’ve probably heard mentioned before, but all a lens’ sweet spot means is the aperture setting at which it is the Read MoreRead More
Would you expect this lens to be radioactive? These 50mm f/1.4 Super-Multicoated Takumar lenses had specially treated thorium rear glass elements to improve their index of refraction. How much exactly are you getting in terms of radiation from these lenses? Well probably not enough to turn you into photo-taking mutant (or dead) – using it for Read MoreRead More
