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Color is a huge topic in photography. You'll be hard-pressed to wander through online photography forums without tripping over a group of shutterbugs arguing over which manufacturer's "colors are best." Like warring cavemen bashing each other with clubs, even the "winner" of a colorful debate, if there is such a thing,...
New point-and-shoot cameras are few and far between. Gone are the days of Sony releasing a new version of its popular RX100 series every year or two. Likewise, Nikon Coolpix superzooms are rarely updated.
However, the death of the point-and-shoot may have been exaggerated. Sure, smartphones have almost entirely...
Focus stacking, combining images shot at different focus distances to create a composite image with greater depth of field, isn't new. For years, photographers have used specialized software, like Helicon Focus and Zerene Stacker. However, this approach has required photographers to adjust focus and capture consecutive...
Lensrentals has published their annual roundup of the top rented photo and video products of 2022. Compared to last year's breakdown, there are some interesting changes and emerging trends.
However, what hasn't changed is Canon and Sony's dominance. The two Japanese giants in the camera industry held the top two...
Earlier this month, Lensrentals posted about the most rented new products for 2021. The diverse list of the 18 top rented cameras, lenses and accessories had some interesting inclusions.
Topping the list was the Canon EOS C70 Cinema Camera (RF). The Super 35-format cinema camera proved to be very popular. The EOS C70...
Lensrentals has announced a pair of new purchasing programs. The Lensrentals' Keeper' and 'Keeper Test Drive' programs allow customers to purchase used gear directly from Lensrentals. LensAuthority, a sister site to Lensrentals, has previously let customers buy used gear but will be wound down now that the Keeper...
Last month, we wrote about an article by photographer Zach Sutton wherein he discussed how light placement affects the look of a portrait subject. Sutton also wrote about how to shoot portraits against a white backdrop. In that article for Lensrentals, Sutton admits he didn't give quite enough detail about maintaining...
Photographer, educator and regular contributor to the Lensrentals blog, Zach Sutton, wrote an excellent lighting guide explaining how light placement affects how your subject appears. Sutton writes, 'When teaching basic lighting principles, I break down how to light a subject into having three basic variables – Intensity...
Roger Cicala and the Lensrentals team ships and receives a lot of gear. Some cameras and lenses will inevitably break with regular use and more often due to accidents. Damage during shipping is rare, and if you've rented from Lensrentals, you'll understand why. They're conscientious. However, several copies of the new...
COVID-19 has led to 2020 being a uniquely challenging, difficult and strange year for all of us. It has also given technology ample opportunity to help us adapt. In the arts, where togetherness and proximity are often important, we have had to try to remotely capture some of the communal spirit. Take for example holiday...
Late last month, Lensrentals dismantled a Fujifilm GFX 100 after it had an ill-fated encounter with saltwater. Lensrentals is back with another camera teardown, this time it's the Canon EOS R5 on the operating table. Better still, unlike the GFX 100, the EOS R5 is in fine working order.
The first step is removing the...
Roger Cicala and the team at Lensrentals would have preferred one of their Fujifilm GFX 100 cameras not had a fatal encounter with salt water. However, the incident afforded the team an opportunity to take apart Fujifilm's flagship medium format camera without fear of breaking it. Fujifilm itself already stated that...
Announced alongside the high-end EOS R5 and R6 full-frame cameras, Canon introduced a pair of rather strange supertelephoto lenses, the RF 600mm f/11 IS STM and RF 800mm f/11 IS STM. Yes, that is correct, f/11. And *just* f/11. Unlike most other lenses, this pair of super-long primes have a fixed-aperture design at f/11....
Last week we told you about a fairly daunting, time-consuming investigation from our friends over at Lensrentals, who were looking into the inconsistencies and variations in flange-to-sensor distances between different cinema cameras. For a quick recap, Roger & Co. discovered that flange distance variation could make...
What do you do when you're a photo and video gear rental house with thousands upon thousands of pieces of equipment, and then suddenly a global pandemic hits? Well, people stop renting gear, and you begin to see your warehouse shelves filling up with equipment. Fortunately, the folks over at Lensrentals have been able to...
Longtime photographers will likely know the pain of seeing specks of dust inside an expensive lens. It can be frustrating, surely, but as Roger Cicala points out in a new blog post, dust is very unlikely to affect image quality. However, Lensrentals recently had a Canon 70-200mm f/2.8 IS II lens (a weather-sealed lens,...
I've always been drawn to night sky photography, in large part because of the inherent challenge of the genre. There are many technical issues to overcome and it can feel like photographic problem solving. When the hard work and perseverance pays off, it feels amazing and you can be rewarded with beautiful images. Deep...
“The best built mirrorless full-frame camera we’ve taken apart.” This is how Lensrentals describes the Nikon Z7 in their newly-published teardown. These are very strong words and speak to the level of engineering-level precision which has gone into the design and construction of Nikon’s new flagship full-frame mirrorless...
For Canon fans in particular, the announcement of the new full-frame mirrorless camera, the Canon EOS R, was met with a lot of excitement. For Roger Cicala at Lensrentals, he was interested in taking a Canon EOS R camera apart. For those of us who like to see how cameras are designed and what sort of technology lay...
Lensrentals founder Roger Cicala has been testing lenses for nearly a decade and his methodology has continually improved not only in efficiency, but more importantly, in accuracy. There are numerous ways to test lenses and there are advantages and disadvantages to different methods. More accuracy typically comes at the...