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This beach frame is a good argument for the 135mm focal length. The woman sitting on the sand holds the eye because she’s the only thing rendered with any real detail. Everything behind her turns into a wash of turquoise and green: umbrellas, chairs, …
Editorial fashion portraits are lit and directed, not caught. That is the whole gap between a snapshot of a well-dressed person and a frame …
A photographer running two Canon mirrorless bodies, an EF-to-RF adapter, and a pair of fast EF telephoto primes sits in one of the most …
The 135mm f/2 has near-mythical status among event and reportage shooters: it compresses backgrounds, isolates a subject from a crowded …
Telephoto compression is frequently misunderstood. It is not a property of the focal length — it is a property of the distance. A 200mm lens …
First curtain sync fires the flash at the beginning of the exposure. Second curtain sync fires it at the end. The difference, on a …
The EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM focuses to 1:1 — life size. At minimum focus distance, the working distance between the front element and …
The EF 40mm f/2.8 STM is Canon’s pancake lens — 23mm long, 130 grams, and optically decent enough that photographers have been …
The Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM is older than the camera it is mounted on by more than three decades, and the pairing still produces the …
The Canon R100 is the least expensive entry point in the RF mirrorless system, and Canon has been reasonably candid about what corners were …
