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Pick up an old lens from the 1970s, 80s, sometimes even early 90s, and the first thing you notice is not the optics but the feel. The focus ring that once had a pleasant rubber grip now feels unpleasantly tacky. Your fingers pick up a dark smear, almost like …
Something slightly counterintuitive happens when you look at the Tamron 35–100mm f/2.8 through the lens of crop-sensor photography. On paper …
Canon’s RF system already has some remarkable lenses, but one category still feels oddly unfinished: the lightweight, budget-friendly …
Running two cameras has become my way of keeping photography practical. One body carries a wider lens, the other stays ready for reach, and …
Some lenses age poorly. Others become oddly relevant years later. The Sigma 50–150mm f/2.8 for Canon APS-C cameras belongs firmly in the …
Something interesting is happening in the lens world right now. Tilt-shift optics—once rare, expensive tools reserved mostly for …
A camera setup does not have to be large, expensive, or intimidating to produce images with serious reach. Sometimes the magic comes from a …
When the Pentax 67 200mm f/4 is mounted on the Canon R8 using a standard Pentax-67-to-RF adapter, the lens behaves exactly as it was …
The Pentax 67 mount is technically obsolete, but calling it irrelevant would be a mistake. The system was created in 1969 for the large …
Portrait photographers run into this comparison sooner or later because on paper the math looks simple. An 85mm lens on an APS-C crop camera …
