January~April 2022's News
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Nikon vs Canon vs Sony Full-Frame Mirrorless Mirrorless vs DSLR
Canon: EOS R3 R5 R5C R6 R RP R7 R10 1DX III 1DX II 5DS/R 5D Mk IV 6D II 90D T8i SL3 Flash Lenses
Nikon: Z9 Z7 II Z6 II Z7 Z6 Z5 Z fc Z50 D6 D5 D850 D780 D750 D500 D7500 D5600 D3500 Flash Lenses Best Nikon Lenses
Sony: A1 A9 II A9 A7R IV A7R III A7 IV A7 III A7R II A7S III A7c A7 II A6600 A6400 A6100 A6000 ZV-E10 RX10/4 RX100/7 RX100/6 Lenses
Fujifilm: GFX100S GFX100 GFX50R X100V X100F X-T4 X-T3 X-T30 X-Pro3 X-S10 X-E4 X-T200 Film Lenses
LEICA: SL2 SL2 S Q2 Q2M M11 M10-R M10M M10P M10 M240 M-E M9P M9T M9 M7 M6/TTL CLE M3 IIIf IIIa Lenses
All Reviews: Apple Audio Zeiss Tamron Sigma Tokina HASSELBLAD Contax Olympus Pentax Yosemite 2021
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Spring Sale on Phil Steele Photography Courses
My friend Phil Steele is having a sale on his courses. Phil's tutorials are the best I've seen; check out his previews and see for yourself. He has a 60-day no-risk money-back guarantee, so you've got nothing to lose and everything to gain. You can watch them from anywhere on just about anything, far better than a book, file or eBook.
30% Off: Understanding Your Camera.
33% Off: Advanced Off-Camera Flash.
33% Off: Secrets of Successful Event Photography.
30% Off: Lightroom Made Easy.
30% Off: Photoshop Basics for Photographers.
30% Off: Pro Portraits with Off-Camera Flash.
Phil has a 60-day money-back guarantee, so you can't afford not to try it.
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30 April 2022, Saturday
SmallRig 3457 Compact Fluid Head.
NEW: SmallRig 3457 Compact Fluid Head Review.
29 April 2022, Friday
Sale: MacBook Pros on Sale.
NEW at NAB: Neumann NDH 30 Open-Back Headphones.
27 April 2022, Wednesday
NEW: Sony FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM II. (also at Adorama.)
82mm filters, 24.5 oz. (695 g), 0.7' (0.21m) close focus, 0.32× macro ratio.
Sony claims it as the world's smallest and lightest 24-70/2.8.
$610 Off: Sony a7R IIIA w/free goodies: $2,198.
$310 Off: Sony a7R IVA w/free goodies: $3,198.
25 April 2022, Monday
$50 Off: Nikon Z 40mm f/2: $246.95.
$300 Off: Sony A7R IV A: $3,198.
$600 Off: Sony A7R III: $2,198.
In case you've been wondering where I've been this past holiday week, I've been out shooting along California's beautiful central coast.
Yes, photos to follow — of course.
15 April 2022, Friday
Weekend Report
beyerdynamic DT 700 PRO X.
NEW: beyerdynamic DT 700 PRO X Review.
Genuinely professional MADE IN GERMANY monitoring headphones that sound great, feel great and cost nearly nothing for what they are.
14 April 2022, Thursday
Nikon Z9 and Nikon AI Noct-NIKKOR 58mm f/1.2s on FTZ.
NEW: I added a section on How to Shoot in Black-and-White to my Nikon Z9 User's Guide & Tutorial.
Nikon Z9 Review & Sample Images.
NEWS: The Nitecore BlowerBaby and Sensor Cleaning Kit have been fêted with a 2022 Red Dot award. I just reviewed the BlowerBaby, and I have a sensor cleaning kit to try when I get the courage to touch my sensor.
13 April 2022, Wednesday
$20 Off: Canon RF 50mm f/1.8 STM.
One of Canon's sharpest and most useful lenses, and also their least expensive. Get it!
New Cine Lenses
New: Canon CN-E 20-50mm T2.4 LF, EF mount (also at Adorama).
New: Canon CN-E 20-50mm T2.4 LF, PL mount (also at Adorama).
New: Canon CN-E 45-135mm T2.4 LF, EF mount (also at Adorama).
New: Canon CN-E 45-135mm T2.4 LF, PL mount (also at Adorama).
11 April 2022, Monday
Nikon Z 800mm f/6.3 Filters
The Z 800mm f/6.3 VR comes with a rear drop-in holder for Nikon 46mm filters.
While any brand of 46mm filter should fit the holder, if the filter is too thick the holder won't fit back into the lens. Stick to Nikon's 46mm filters, which are all thin, with your exotic lens and be happy.
Here's Nikon's 46mm NC (no color) clear filter, and here's Nikon's new drop-in polarizer.
OWC ENVOY PRO ELEKTRON SSD.
NEW: OWC ENVOY PRO ELEKTRON SSD Review.
Ultrafast (much faster than any internal or external hard drive) and works with Macs, iPads, Windows computers and just about anything with a USB-C or USB-A connector.
NEW: Oben BC-139 Review.
I snuck this review into my review of the matching Oben CFT-6394 "Big & Tall" Carbon-Fibre Tripod.
10 April 2022, Sunday
OWC USB-C TRAVEL DOCK E.
NEW: OWC USB-C TRAVEL DOCK E Review.
Works with Macs, iPads, Windows computers and just about anything with a USB-C connector.
09 April 2022, Saturday
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OWC ATLAS S PRO SDXC Card ($39 in 32GB, $69 in 64GB, $119 in 128GB or $249 in 256GB).
NEW: OWC ATLAS S PRO SDXC Card Review.
Fastest SD card I've ever measured.
08 April 2022, Friday
Oben CFT-6194L Lateral Tripod holding a Nikon FM and 50mm f/1.4 AI-s on BE-117 Ball Head.
NEW: Oben CFT-6194L Lateral Carbon-Fibre Tripod Review.
New at Crutchfield: Sony FE 16-35mm f/4 PZ.
07 April 2022, Thursday
Nikon NIKKOR Z 800mm f/6.3 VR S.
NEW: Nikon Z 800mm f/6.3 VR Review.
Olympus 35RC.
Updated: Olympus 35RC Review & Sample Images.
I updated the page for 2022. These little gems are now worth about $125 used if you know How to Win at eBay.
New: Scale.
A lesson I unintentionally showed above is the effect of scale in photography, so I wrote an article about how to use this effect.
06 April 2022, Wednesday
Oben CFT-6394 Carbon-Fibre Tripod.
NEW: Oben CFT-6394 "Big & Tall" Carbon-Fibre Tripod Review.
A big, sturdy tripod for big guys with big cameras, and anyone who wants a lightweight, tough tripod.
NEW: ZEISS Supreme Prime 15mm T1.8, Feet, PL Mount: $31,625.
A lens for real filmmakers, 46.3mm image circle.
05 April 2022, Tuesday
NEW: Nikon Z9 Review & Sample Images.
NEW: Nikon Z9 User's Guide & Tutorial.
ThinkTank Retrospective 75 Duffel.
ThinkTank Retrospective 75 Duffel.
NEW: ThinkTank Retrospective 75 Duffel.
This is one luxurious duffel bag!
Free shipping and a free goody too, with your order.
04 April 2022, Monday
$50 Off: Nikon Z 28mm f/2.8: $246.95.
How convenient that I reviewed it last week. Swell lens, now at an even better price.
01 April 2022, April Fool's Day
New: Sony SD Card Reader: $29.99.
Laugh all you want, but this is no joke. Never underestimate the importantance of having a name-brand portable SD card read that actually works.
31 March 2022, Thursday
Bright versus Dim DSLR Focus Screens
A reader asked about interchangeable focus screens for fast manual lenses for his Canon 5D.
Ground glass hasn’t been ground glass since 1979. As of the 1980s SLRs and DSLRs have used Bright Screens that have all been very precisely laser engraved rather than arbitrarily etched with acid or ground like the old days.
Plain matte etched or regular ground glass takes any light from any angle and scatters it in every direction. Regardless of what lens you use, you see the actual image and the actual depth of field. These screens are more accurate for focussing at large apertures, however they get very dark at smaller apertures because the light goes everywhere rather than only towards your eye. Back in the days of f/1.4 lenses these were the best, but got darker at f/2.8 and very dark at f/5.6 with a zoom lens, that as you know become very popular in the late 1970s, which is why the new laser screens were developed.
The new, modern laser-cut screens are very special and only accept light from certain angles and send it precisely to your eye. Therefore they are much brighter at smaller apertures, however they completely ignore light from other angles - and these are the angles from which light comes from the periphery of fast lenses. I kid you not: you won’t see the all the defocus with an f/1.4 lens on a modern matte screen!
Each new screen will have an optimum fastest aperture for which its designed, typically f/2.5. At apertures faster than this you simply won’t see the light from the faster parts of the lens, and thus you won’t see the full defocus effect at apertures faster than the design of the screen.
You can see this! Use your depth of field (DOF) preview with a fast lens. For most DSLRs the optimum aperture is about f/2.5. If you set an f/1.4 lens to f/2 and use the DOF preview button while looking at an out of focus image (a point of light makes this most obvious), and as you stop it down and reopen it, you won’t see any change! You can try different apertures and find the aperture larger than which you’ll see no change.
If you want to see the actual effect of f/1.4 and f/1.8 lenses, standard DSLR screens won’t show this. A screen optimized for a fast lens may be called a “high precision” screen, and warn that it won’t be as bright.
The screen you want for fast manual lenses is the darker, more precise one.
For instance, the Nikon FM (1977-1982) has a standard ground glass screen, while the newer FM2 and FM2-n (1982-2001) has always had the newer laser-cut (and interchangeable) bright screens.
For lenses with maximum apertures of f/2.8 and smaller the standard bright screens are best!
For a fast manual lens, you want the dim screen. That’s OK because while the dim screen is dim with a slow lens, it gets much brighter with a fast lens. The “bright” screens oddly are bright with slow lenses but don’t get brighter with fast ones. That's why every camera uses a bright screen today especially with AF, while the traditional screen was better in the days of fast manual lenses.
Microprisms and split-images are optimized for slower apertures. They black-out at very small apertures, but you’ll also notice that they are about as bright as the ground glass with an f/1.4 lens but much brighter than the surrounding matte glass at f/5.6.
Mirrorless makes this all history; mirrorless camera finders are always bright regardless of how slow is the lens, and always show the actual depth-of-field if your fast lens is open.
Skylum Luminar Neo Updated Again
Unstoppable Skylum, based in Kyiv, Ukraine, has introduced version 1.0.4 of its new Luminar Neo. Luminar Neo is photo editing software which lets us do all sorts of crazy new things to our images, like remove power lines from skies easily.
What's new in 1.0.4 (from Skylum):
Use Smart Objects in Luminar Neo when you use the app as a Photoshop plugin. If you’re used to Smart Objects in Photoshop, you can easily integrate them in your workflow with Luminar Neo.
Connect more smoothly to Luminar Share. There shouldn’t be any problems with the interface now!
World Backup Day
Who dreams these up? Marketing people, that's who!
Anyway, here's B&H's sale on backup drives.
30 March 2022, Wednesday
$140~$340 off: SanDisk Portable SSDs.
$150 (Half!!) Off: SanDisk 128GB Extreme PRO CFast 2.0 Memory Card: $149.99.
29 March 2022, Tuesday
NEW and $100 Off: Røde NTH-100 Headphones: $149.
No, I've never tried these, but they are fair dinkum made-in-Aussie-land.
I stick to my genuine American-made Audeze or German-made beyerdynamic and I've never heard better for either conventional or planar magnetic headphones. While loads of camera gear is mass-produced consumer blah offshored to everywhere, good pro audio gear is always made where the company is based.
Tip: I expect to be reviewing the newest beyerdynamic Amiron Wireless, DT 700 PRO X and DT 900 Pro X in coming weeks. Stay tuned. I'm working on my Nikon Z9 review this week.
The beyerdynamic Amiron Wireless are the Bluetooth version of the open-back Amiron Home corded headphones, which I've already reviewed and love. These are the real deal, MADE IN GERMANY.
The closed-back DT 700 PRO X and open-back DT 900 Pro X are the newest versions of beyerdynamic's genuinely studio-standard DT770 and DT990 headphones which have been pro recording references for decades; the real deal MADE IN GERMANY for almost 100 years running. I'm serious; I bought my first version of the DT990 back in 1986!
These newest DT 700 PRO X and DT 900 Pro X are both 48Ω. No longer are there three or four impedance options; today 48Ω is optimum for everything from iPhones to pro consoles.
The beyerdynamic Amiron Wireless are for home musc enjoyment. They're the warmest and most pleasant of these three.
The professional closed-back DT 700 PRO X are less warm than the Amiron Wireless, and the professional open-back DT 900 Pro X are the least warm (the most neutral).
By "professional" I mean the earlier versions of the closed-back DT 700 PRO X have been used in studios for tracking and in concert halls for monitoring live recordings for decades, and the earlier versions of the open-back DT 900 Pro X have been used in control rooms, mixing and mastering for decades as well.
The Amiron Wireless is a more expensive, more luxurious and cozier product for enjoying music that's already recorded in your fine home.
26 March 2022, Saturday
Starting Saturday, 12:40 PM NYC time (9:40 AM Pacific): 128 GB Ritz Gear V90 UHS-II SDXC Card: $81.99 w/coupon.
The coupon doesn't appear until Saturday.
25 March 2022, Friday
Discount Codes
20% Off: 7artisans 35mm f/5.6 for Leica.
Use Discount Code 20RVYDFH.
15% Off: Viltrox 33mm f/1.4 for Canon EOS-M.
Use Discount Code 15OKU9NV.
24 March 2022, Thursday
Jackery Explorer 1000.
NEW: Jackery Explorer 1000 Power Station & Solar Generator Review.
Enough power to run everything in my editing suite or studio for a day — or just my MacBook Pro for two weeks, and it charges for free with solar panels or from other people's power in your office or hotel.
It's also what you need in case of a power outage, be it temporary or forever.
23 March 2022, Wednesday
NEW: Kodak GOLD 200 in 120 format.
What? The most basic consumer C-41 color negative film in a pro fomat? What crazy times are these. It's $8.99 a roll.
NEW: Cooke S8/i 25mm, 32mm, 40mm, 50mm, 75mm, 100mm and 135mm T1.4 Lenses in PL mount: about $35,000 each.
Genuinely pro lenses for real filmmakers. These have 46.5mm image circles which easily cover the large-format double-frame "Vista Vision" 25 × 38mm format, also called 24 × 36mm "full frame" by consumers.
As you know, 35mm motion picture film started back in the 1800s as a 24 × 18mm frame, the full aperture. Cooke has been making lenses in various iterations since the 1800s as well.
Saint Oskar Barnack hacked together a still camera which used two of these frames at once (24 × 36mm), today still shooters erroneously call it "full frame," when in fact it is two 35mm frames.
22/3/2022, Tuesday
Nikon Z 28mm f/2.8.
NEW: Nikon Z 28mm f/2.8 Review & Sample Image Files.
Same price and optics as the Z 28mm f/2.8 SE, only different in outward appearance.
NEW: Sony FE 16-35mm f/4 G PZ Power Zoom. (also at Adorama.)
Sony FE 16-35mm f/4 G PZ.
Sony FE 16-35mm f/4 G PZ.
72mm filters, 12.5 oz./353 g., 0.8'/ 0.24m close focus, 0.23× macro ratio, 7-bladed rounded diaphragm stops down to f/22.
This is a brand-new full-frame ultrawide zoom for video. It works great for stills and it's also the second-lightest full-frame ultrawide zoom ever made and has superb optics, but what really makes it special is internal zoom motors that let it make smooth, controlled zooms. (The Canon EF 20-35mm USM is only 11.7 oz./331 g.)
Not only can you control the zoom on the lens, you also can control it from most cameras and can control it with external remote controls via Bluetooth.
21 March 2022, Monday
Nikon Z 28mm f/2.8 SE Special Edition.
NEW: Nikon Z 28mm f/2.8 SE Review & Sample Image Files.
19 March 2022, Saturday
Nikon Z 40mm f/2.
NEW: Nikon Z 40mm f/2 Review & Sample Image Files.
16 March 2022, Wednesday
NEW: Amazon Pharmacy!!!
Oh cool! I've been shopping online and telephone ordering since the 1970s. I hate having to drive to a store just to pay more, wait on lines and have less selection than simply ordering from the comfort of my own home and having my goodies arrive on my doorstep.
There's nothing more local than my home and doorstep, and nothing saves gas and helps the environment more than eliminating unneeded car trips. Car trips are for photo outings, not shopping. The USPS, UPS, FedEx and Amazon trucks drive past my house every day whether they have packages for me or not. Online ordering doesn't just help you, it helps everyone with less pollution, less money spent on gas, less traffic and no time wasted standing in line.
If Amazon Pharmacy means I no longer have to wait in line like a dork with sick people coughing on me, I'm all for it.
I so hope Amazon Pharmacy is as simple as just having drugs show up on my doorstep. Adiós to driving around and waiting on lines!
This is like finally getting a cellular phone after having nothing but landline telephones for a hundred years. Goodbye to 1800s-style waiting-on-line like lemmings.
What's next: Amazon Fuel, Amazon Wash, Amazon Detail and Amazon Service, where my cars are refuelled as they sit in my garage overnight, get detailed once or twice a week while I sleep, or simply get taken to dealer for service overnight — with a free loan car put in its place if it needs more than a few hours of work?
Until today, it's been the same as taking your horse to the apothecary and waiting on line for a bottle of snake elixir or liquid mercury or having your prescription filled for an ear nail or leaches. Different medical care, same wasted time.
Amazon is AWESOME! It's about time for Amazon Pharmacy.
Fukushima Hit Again
A major magnitude 7.3 earthquake has just hit in the sea outside Fukushima.
Let's hope for the best for Japan; it was 11 March 2011 (11 years ago 11:11:11:11) that another earthquake and subsequent tsunami and a nuclear meltdown lead to widespread destruction of major camera factories.
11 years ago was magnitude 9, so hopefully everyone will be fine this time.
Skylum Luminar Neo Update
Skylum, based in Kyiv, Ukraine, miraculously has introduced version 1.0.2 of its new Luminar Neo. Luminar Neo is photo editing software which lets us do all sorts of crazy new things to our images, like remove power lines from skies easily.
What's new in 1.0.2 (from Skylum):
Sync your adjustments easily in the Catalog tab! The Copy and Paste edits functionality is here.
Use Image 3D Transform. If your image needs to be scaled or transformed, you can use the sliders of this tool to manually adjust perspective distortion.
Work with images in PNG format with alpha (transparency) in Layers.
Enjoy the increase of Frame Per Second rate while using the drag slider on any of the effects.
Add a folder and files using Add Photos on Windows.
Skylum Coupon
Use the top-secret coupon code ROCKWELL for:
$10 off Luminar AI.
Luminar AI is the older version of Luminar Neo. I use Luminar AI to add dramatic clouds to empty skies, for instance.
$10 off Aurora HDR.
I love Aurora HDR for adding details to highlights and shadows, even from just one JPG file at a time as I shoot. It lets me pull HDR-level details out of my images, even form iPhone, without having to waste my time with multiple exposures. (It also works with bracketed series, and also works greater with just one image file.
$10 off Luminar Neo.
Luminar Neo is Skylum's newest work, adding features like being able to remove power lines from skies.
The Neo coupon offer ends April 1st, while the others ought to work for a while longer.
I used the older Luminar AI and Aurora HDR programs to create Yosemite images like this — from my Apple iPhone 13 Pro Max!
Half Dome in Last Light, Cooks Meadow, Yosemite National Park, 6:12 P.M., Thursday, 14 October 2021. iPhone 13 Pro Max 9mm (77mm eq.) camera at f/2.8 at 1/122 at Auto ISO 50 (LV 10.9), Snapseed on iPhone to bump it up, Skylum Luminar AI (updated as Luminar Neo for 2023) in my Mac to add clouds and finally Skylum Aurora HDR to add snap and vignetting, all from my one original JPG file. bigger or fit-to-screen.
15 March 2022, Tuesday
Nikon Z 18-140mm VR DX.
NEW: Nikon Z 18-140mm VR DX Review & Sample Image Files.
NEW: Lumix GH6.
NEW: Lumix GH6 w/12-60mm.
π Day (3.14), 2022
$300 Off: Mavic 3 Drone Fly More Combo with RC Pro Controller.
11 March 2022, Friday
$199 Off: Mavic Air 2 4K Drone Fly More Combo w/Free Accessories2.
$199 Off: Mavic Air 2 4K Drone Fly More Combo w/Free Essential Bundle.
Same drone, same price, two different packages of free goodies.
10 March 2022, Thursday
NEW: Apple 27" 5K Studio Display in glossy and in matte, and also comes in height-adjustable versions.
27" 5,120 × 2,880 pixels, P3 color, 600 cd/m2 with auto brightness control, Thunderbolt 3 input with 96W power output, one TB3 output and three 10 Gb/s USB-C outputs with speakers, camera & microphones built in.
Of course MacBook Pros have Thunderbolt outputs to drive a few of these monitors directly, but I've also discovered my late-2013 Mac Pro with a Thunderbolt 2 cable and Apple Thunderbolt 2 to Thunderbolt 3 adapter connects to everything via that one cable to my OWC Thunderbolt 3 dock and all is good, including feeding my 55" 4K TV at 4K/60. For all I know even my late-2013 Mac Pro may to be able to drive this monitor — but I haven't tried yet.
Also at Adorama in glossy, in glossy with height adjustment, in matte and in matte with height adjustment.
NEW: Apple Mac Studio.
A configurable supercomputer and work of art. Apple continues to outdo itself, bravo!
It's loaded with connectors: two USB-C and an SDXC UHS-II card reader (Yay!) on the front, and four more Thunderbolt 4 (USB-C), two USB-A, HDMI, Ethernet and a headphone jack on the back. Hint: Apple's headphone outputs are super high-quality, high-output, low distortion dedicated headphone amplifiers, probably some of the best analog outputs available.
The base model has 10 cores of M1 Max, 32 GB RAM and a 512 GB SSD, and just check the boxes for up to 20 cores of M1 Ultra, 128 GB RAM and 8 TB (!) of SSD.Obviously it's intended to plug into a few new 5K Studio Displays to make an ultra-ultra multi-monitor iMac, or personally I plug my Macs into a 55" 4K TV to fill my desk with a 4-foot (1.2 meter) wide wall of reality to work on everything in supreme visual comfort.
This iconic hunk of brilliant design harkens back to my late-2013 Mac Pro, which set the world on fire being the first silent desktop computer that finally let us work in peace, especially on our music projects, with no spinning hard drives and no audible fans. This new Mac Studio continues the silence, and you can option it up to the max if you really want to crunch on 8K video rendering — but as my experience has shown me, even the most basic models all work great, too.
Also at Adorama.
NEW: 5th generation 10.9" iPad Air.
07 March 2022, Monday
NEW: Sony A7 IV Full Review & Sample Image Files.
NEW: Sony A7 IV Tutorial & User's Guide.
Updated: All Sony Cameras Compared.
Sony FE 70-200mm f/2.8 GM OSS II.
NEW: Sony FE 70-200mm f/2.8 GM OSS II Review & Sample Images.
Fantastic optics, ultra-close focus and the world's lightest 70-200/2.8!
NEW: Sony HVL-F60RM2 Flash Review & Sample Images.
NEW: Sony HVL-F46RM Flash Review & Sample Images.
04 March 2022, Friday
UKRAINE
In case you didn't know, our friends at Skylum, makers of Skylum Luminar Neo, Luminar AI and Aurora HDR and much more, are based in Kyiv. They're having a heck of a time to say the least, and are appealing to all of us for help.
Not only can they use online contributions; they are appealing today for donations of drones.
02 March 2022, Wednesday
I just checked out #PHOTO52, which is a better than average book loaded with 52 fun projects to occupy people interested in photography.
It covers all the usual whacky as-shot photo techniques, as well as how to build all sorts of lighting, image-modification and photo accessories, and of course a section with projects to do on your computer.
If you or someone you know (think beginners or others who actually are looking for fun things to do in photography and learn some things in the process), check it out.
01 March 2022, Tuesday
Since you asked…
A reader asked what I thought about the brilliance of one of the popular compact consumer 35mm SLR systems of the 1970s (Olympus OM system) versus the LEICA M3 rangefinder camera.
I replied that they are totally different camera systems, like comparing bicycles to cars. Brand is far less important than which is the most appropriate type for whatever you're trying to do. Even if the OM-1 was small, size alone isn't the question.
While manual-focus 35mm SLRs were huge in the olden days of 40 to 50 years ago, rangefinder cameras are much better suited to today’s 35mm shooting. Rangefinder lenses are much sharper, making SLR lenses often look broken by comparison when scanned at today’s resolutions, and focus more precisely.
Today we don’t use 35mm cameras for sports, action, TTL flash or long-distance wildlife shooting, as we did in olden days and for which the ridiculous range of SLR lenses and features were developed.
Today 35mm film is used for street, portraits, landscapes and things that generally hold still at reasonable and wide-angle distances, for which rangefinder cameras are superior.
Unless you need to shoot at 5 FPS or need lenses longer than 135mm, rangefinder cameras are the way to go if you want to shoot 35mm film today, and the M3 is the greatest of all time for careful 35mm work. If you need TTL flash, look at the M6 TTL or newer.
If you want autofocus, and TTL flash at 4 FPS, the CONTAX G2 has all that and is the world's best modern 35mm camera — and it's a rangefinder system with lenses equal to LEICA lenses.
See also Rangefinder vs. SLR & DSLR cameras.
WPPI Deals: Storage Deals.
28 February 2022, Monday
$1,500 Off: Fuji GFX-50R: $2,999. (also at Adorama.)
$200 Off: Nikon D850: $2,796.95. (also at Crutchfield and at Adorama. This is $500 off its original $3,297 price back in 2017-2019.)
$200 Off: Nikon Z 28-75mm f/2.8: $996.95. (also at Crutchfield.)
$30 Off: Nikon Z 28mm f/2.8: $266.95. (also at Crutchfield.)
$30 Off: Nikon Z 40mm f/2: $266.95. (also at Crutchfield.)
Sale: WPPI show deals.
More: WPPI deals on accessories.
25 February 2022, Friday
Told you so. bigger.
I've been telling you since the 1990s when Canon surpassed Nikon as the world's top pro camera system. Canon, especially in light of how complete and broad a range of everything they make, has been the biggest seller since the 1990s.
While other makers occasionally put out a weasel-worded claim of "Number One" for some narrowly defined category, but Canon has been the quiet giant for decades — but you knew that, which is why they don't have to say it.
24 February 2022, Thursday
NEW: Canon RF 800mm f/5.6L IS USM. (also at Adorama.)
NEW: Canon RF 1,200mm f/8L IS USM. (also at Adorama.)
YES! Canon is continuing to push-out the envelope of what's possible. Each of these ultra-teles weighs only about 7 pounds (that's half of what my Nikon AF-I 400mm f/2.8 weighs), has optical stabilization and space-grade L optics.
Nikon Z9 and Nikon AI Noct-NIKKOR 58mm f/1.2s on FTZ.
As you may have gathered, my Z9 just showed up, so most of its review still needs to be written. As of today the High ISOs and Stabilization sections are brand-new and current, while the rest of its Performance section still needs to be written.
I've been pulled off on another assignment so it will be a week before I get back into the Z9, so know for now that the Z9 has a load of new, cool stuff going on that you probably won't appreciate until you get yours, too. The menu system, which was great to begin with, has been significantly expanded and made easier to use — huge pluses, with lots more flexibility. For now, considering that they aren't a stock item, be sure to order yours now and it will ship as soon as it comes in. I should have this review complete before yours ships if you've waited this long to order yours. I ordered mine the moment it was announced last year and my Z9 didn't arrive until now, so order yours and if you hate it, you can cancel or just send it back.
Among what it does is that it really does shoot at 120 FPS with full tracking autofocus and tracking autoexposure (wow!), but the 120 FPS and 30 FPS modes restrict many other settings, for instance each only shoots in JPG LARGE NORMAL (30 FPS) or JPG SMALL NORMAL (120 FPS). Laugh all you want, but the SMALL 11 MP files are still more than enough resolution for anything; 11 MP still has so much resolution you have to crop it to fit a 4K screen, for instance. The Z9 is an amazing camera.
Then it hit me like a pile of bricks: some people are waiting to order theirs until I give thumbs up or down, but it doesn't matter, and here's why. The Z9 is so good and hard to get that people are now paying about $7,500 for used ones at eBay today, so ordering one brand-new at $5,500 means you can probably walk away with two grand in your pocket if you don't love it, so screw my review, just get yours ordered, be patient, and you can't lose. Your card isn't charged until it ships. You can try it yourself shooting your own stuff, and if you hate it, you could be two grand ahead.
Finally: Skylum Luminar Neo is here.
I've been seeing ads for what seems like over a year, and finally we can all get it.
I haven't tried it yet today and, no, I'm not entirely sure what all it does, and I know many of you are curious or already know all the details. It has a 30-day money-back guarantee, so have at it.
NEW: Elvid FieldVision 10.1" LCD On-Camera Monitor (HDMI).
NEW: Oben CFT-6394 Skysill 4-Section Carbon Fiber Tripod.
In Stock: Zacuto ACT Recoil Rig for Panasonic GH6.
In Stock: Delkin Devices 80GB BLACK CFexpress Type A Memory Card
23 February 2022, Wednesday
NEW: Nikon Z9 Stabilization Performance.
I pulled out some of Nikon's greatest lenses to see what would happen. As expected, there is a huge range of improvement, and some of the results, especially with my old manual-focus and classic lenses that won't autofocus at all on the FTZ like the genuine Noct shown above, stabilize wonderfully.
22/2/22, 2'sday
Huion Kamvas Pro 13 (2.5K) drawing tablet.
NEW: Huion Kamvas Pro 13 (2.5K) drawing tablet review.
NEW: Lumix GH6. (also at Adorama.)
NEW: Lumix GH6 w/12-60mm. (also at Adorama.)
21 February 2022, Monday
Sigma for Fuji
NEW: Sigma 16mm f/1.4 for Fuji. (also at B&H.)
NEW: Sigma 30mm f/1.4 for Fuji. (also at B&H.)
NEW: Sigma 56mm f/1.4 for Fuji. (also at B&H.)
NEW: Sigma Rear Cap for Fuji lenses: $5. (also at B&H.)
20 February 2022, Sunday
NEW: Nikon Z9 High ISO Performance.
Here are some sample images:
La Virgen de Guadalupe, 6:28 PM, Saturday, 19 February 2022. Nikon Z9 with in-camera VR ON, Z 40mm f/2 at f/2 hand-held at 1/10 of a second at Auto ISO 125 (LV 5.0), VIVID Picture Control at defaults except set to +9 sharpening and +3 Saturation, Luminar Aurora HDR. bigger.
La Colonia, Ciudad de México, Distrito Federal, México, 6:28 PM, Saturday, 19 February 2022. Nikon Z9 with in-camera VR ON, Z 40mm f/2 at f/2 hand-held at 1/10 of a second at Auto ISO 3,600 (LV ⅙), VIVID Picture Control at defaults except set to +9 sharpening and +3 Saturation, Perfectly Clear. bigger or camera-original 45 MP BASIC ★ JPG file (8 MB).
Los Baños, Ciudad de México, Distrito Federal, México, 6:52 PM, Saturday, 19 February 2022. Square crop from Nikon Z9 with in-camera VR ON, Z 40mm f/2 at f/5.6 hand-held at 1/10 of a second at Auto ISO 1,800 (LV 4⅛), VIVID Picture Control at defaults except set to +9 sharpening and +3 Saturation, Perfectly Clear. bigger or full-resolution 33 MP JPG file (11 MB).
18 February 2022, Friday
Deal: RitzGear 256 GB 280 MB/s SD card: $169.99 w/coupon.
Deal: RitzGear 128 GB 280 MB/s SD card: $99.99 w/coupon.
Deal: RitzGear 64 GB 280 MB/s SD card: $49.99 w/coupon.
Be sure to click the green coupon box to get these prices.
Lunchtime!
Rockwell's Lunch, 12:18 PM, 18 February 2022. Nikon Z9 with in-camera VR ON, Z 40mm f/2 at f/11 hand-held at ⅛ second at Auto ISO 640, +0.7 stops exposure compensation (LV 7¼), VIVID Picture Control at defaults except set to +9 sharpening and +3 Saturation, shown here exactly as shot. bigger or camera-original 45 MP BASIC ★ JPG file (9 MB).
15 February 2022, Tuesday
Old Is New Again: Olympus OM-1 (micro 4/3). (also at Adorama).
OM-1? Really? Some people get all starry-eyed at Olympus. The OM-1 was the super-compact 35mm SLR that started the premium compact camera craze back in the 1970s. It was a jewel of a system with tiny cameras and magnificent lenses much smaller, and often faster, than other SLR lenses.
No, I have no idea how good is the digital OM-1. A bigger question than one camera by itself is that you have to gauge the mettle of the system, support and entire ecosystem that is Olympus today, who has been but a minor player, like Pentax, this past 20 years.
Micro 4/3 offers the same step-down from APS-C in physical size and image quality as APS-C offers from full-frame. The micro 4/3 sensor has a 2× crop factor from full frame, which means it has only one-quarter of the image area of full frame.
More about the new OM-1. It uses the micro 4/3 mount.
New: OM-1 Body, also comes as a kit with 12-40mm f/2.8 (24-80mm eq).
New: M.Zuiko Digital ED 12-40mm f/2.8 PRO II.
New: M.Zuiko Digital ED 40-150mm f/4 PRO.
Accessories
HLD-10 Vertical Grip & Battery Holder.
RM-WR1 Wireless Remote Control.
SBCX-1 Dual Charger & Spare Battery Kit.
Spares & Replacements
BCX-1 Lithium-Ion Battery Charger.
In Stock: Canon RF 5.2mm f/2.8L Dual Fisheye Stereoscopic VR Lens.
14 February 2022, Valentine's Day
Free On-Location Power from the Sun!
Jackery SolarSaga 100W Panel.
NEW: Jackery SolarSaga 100W Panel Review.
Jackery Explorer 300.
NEW: Jackery Explorer 300 Review.
Time to get out in the middle of nowhere. This will let you power just about everything from LED lights, charge your cameras, iPads and iPhones and run and charge your computers for days.
If you're out for good, bring the panel and you can recharge in a couple of hours, or charge this in the hotel each night and run from it out on location all day,. The uses are endless.
$120 off: Adobe Creative Cloud 12-Month Full Suite of 20+ apps: $479.88.
$300 off: Sony FE 70-200mm f/2.8 GM OSS: $2,298.
All Lexar Cards on Sale:
Some highlights:
$140 off: Lexar 128GB 3500x CFast 2.0 Card: $299.98 for two.
$110 off: Lexar 256GB CFexpress Type-B Card: $289.99.
$15 off: Lexar 128GB 1,066x SDXC Memory Cards: $49.99 for two.
09 February 2022, Wednesday
Canon EOS R3 and EF 50mm f/1.0 L on EF to RF adapter.
NEW: CANON EOS R3 Full Review & Sample Image Files.
You knew this was coming; I've spent all year on this. It's a huge review; it's 131 pages if I printed it out from my Mac, but just one page here for easy online reading.
Enjoy!
NEW: Sigma 20mm f/2 full-frame for Sony E.
NEW: Sigma 20mm f/2 full-frame for LEICA L.
08 February 2022, Tuesday
$300 off: DJI FPV Drone Combo.
Up to $400 off: Sandisk Extreme PRO Portable SSDs.
I LOVE mine! I keep bootable copies of all my other computers on it, and this way I have secure access to everything on them — and even can boot from them and run them — while I'm in the field on my MacBook Pro. Remember that any online computer access program that lets you access your other computers remotely means any other hacker can access them from anywhere, too — but not when it's all on a drive in your pocket. These SanDisk Extreme PRO Portable SSDs are much smaller than they appear in the listings so they fit in your pocket or disappear into your computer bag.
The BlackMagic speed test tells me mine runs as fast via the Thunderbolt 3 port of my MacBook Pro as my MacBook Pro's own internal SSD.
Up to $210 off: Seagate Desktop Drives.
I use four of the 10 TB versions of these for backups.
What's impressive is that while these don't advertise as being super fast or even advertise how at many RPM they spin, they are 50% faster than the 7,200 RPM LaCie D2 Thunderbolt 2 drive I bought a few years ago and still use as my master data drive.
Ignore claims of how fast the USB or Thunderbolt interfaces may be able to transfer data in Fairyland; the real limitation is the mechanical spinning platter. Using the BlackMagic speed test I see real-world speeds of 150 MB/s (1,200 Mb/s) speeds with these Seagate drives.
While LaCie mentioned something about Thunderbolt 2's 20 Gb/s speeds, my actual 7,200 RPM LaCie D2 Thunderbolt 2 drive only measures about 100 MB/s (800 Mb/s).
$100 off: LaCie 2TB Rugged 1,050 MB/s External SSD: $399.99.
I wouldn't buy this LaCie SSD; I did buy a Sandisk Extreme PRO Portable SSD instead for less.
"Rugged" covers were useful for protecting hard drives, but SSDs are as tough as memory cards. I doubt dropping an SSD will matter, and the Sandisk Extreme PRO Portable SSDs are already covered in rubber so no worries. The Sandisk Extreme PRO Portable SSDs are only half as thick, twice as fast and cost less than this LaCie. I use LaCie and Seagate hard drives, but SanDisk for SSDs. Done.
Snaps from Sunday
Here's what I shot with my Canon EOS R3 and old EF 28-135mm IS two days ago:
Chop Suey, 11:52 AM, Sunday, 06 February 2022. Canon EOS R3, JPG quality 5, Canon EF 28-135mm IS on EF to RF adapter wide-open at 41 mm at f/4.5 at 1/80 at Auto ISO 100 (LV 10¾), Perfectly Clear. bigger or camera-original © 24 MP (6 MB) JPG.
Urban Trash Cans, 1:13 PM, Sunday, 06 February 2022. Canon EOS R3, JPG quality 4, Canon EF 28-135mm IS on EF to RF adapter at 28 mm at f/8 at 1/320 at Auto ISO 100, -0.7 stops exposure compensation (LV 14.4), Perfectly Clear. bigger.
Tagger Tagging, 1:17 PM, Sunday, 06 February 2022. Canon EOS R3, JPG quality 5, Canon EF 28-135mm IS on EF to RF adapter at 41 mm at f/8 at 1/320 at Auto ISO 100 (LV 14.4), as shot. bigger or camera-original © 24 MP (11 MB) JPG.
Yes, my old Canon EF 28-135mm IS (about $100 used if you know How to Win at eBay) is more than sharp enough with my R3's electronic lens corrections.
07 February 2022, Monday
$1,500 off: Fuji GFX 50R.
Fuji's best medium-format camera.
Free Fuji Filter: With Fuji Lenses.
03 February 2022, Thursday
In-Stock: Sony A7 IV.
New: Zoom Q8n-4K Handy Video Recorder.
4K camera with dedicated X-Y mic system on top.
New: Angler Strip Softboxes, 12” × 55” & 10” × 24”.
Buy now and they come with a free grid ($45 value).
New: Impact Deluxe Varipole Support System with Metal Chain Kit.
Up to $250 Off: Rokinon Mirrorless Lenses.
$50 off: JOBY GorillaPod Mobile Rig.
2/2/22, Groundhog Day
Canon EOS R3 Stabilization: WOW!
Holy cow, I just ran my EOS R3 through my lab and am astounded at the five- to six-stop real-world improvement with my unstabilized EF lenses by the sensor-shift stabilization of my EOS R3 .
The EOS R3 has — by far — the very best stabilization I have ever measured, letting me get sharp shots at 300mm equivalent hand-held at one second, and sharp shots hand-held at four seconds at 80mm equivalent!
I have never seen stabilization performance this good, and this is with unstabilized EF lenses:
One-Second exposure Hand-Held at 300mm Equivalent: Some of Rockwell's Bookshelves, 12:09 PM, Tuesday, 01 February 2022. Canon EOS R3 shot in JPG quality 4, Canon EF 180mm f/3.5L Macro USM (300mm equivalent as shot here with 1.6x crop) on EF to RF adapter at f/7.1 hand-held for one second at Auto ISO 100 (LV 5.6). bigger or camera-original © JPG file (2 MB).
Four-Second Exposure Hand-Held at 80mm Equivalent: Some of Rockwell's Bookshelves, 12:01 PM, Tuesday, 01 February 2022. Canon EOS R3 shot in JPG quality 4, Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 STM (80mm equivalent as shot here with 1.6x crop) on EF to RF adapter at f/10 hand-held for four seconds at ISO 50 (LV 5.6). bigger or camera-original © JPG file (3 MB).
01 February 2022, Tuesday
New at Crutchfield: Canon EOS R5 C w/24-105mm.
New at Crutchfield: Canon DR-E6C DC Coupler for EOS R C Cameras.
As far as I can surmise, this is the coupler only, without an AC adapter as shown in the picture.
31 January 2022, Monday
$2,400 OFF: 50 MP Canon 5DS/R: Just $1,499!!!
I love my 5DS/R, and I paid the full $3,900 when it came out.
Mirrorless is fun, but my 5DS/R still has the highest resolution of anything from Nikon or Canon.
Mirrorless get all the press because it has all the publicity dollars behind it, but if you want the best photos you possibly can, get a Canon 5DS/R for a give-away price while you can and never look back.
SALE: Super Bowl Specials.
29 January 2022, Saturday
Nitecore BlowerBaby.
New: Nitecore BlowerBaby Review.
A nice little rechargable blower to pop in your bag.
25 January 2022, Tuesday
Ryan needed a new headshot for a school project, so after we got home from a haircut yesterday we snuck out in the back yard in last light as the sun went down behind the mountains. This was the first shot of 15, and it was the best. I got lucky; I didn't need a scrim to dim the direct sunlight because the mountain did that for me, and my on-camera Canon 580EX II flash (about $75 used if you know How to Win at eBay) ensured the shadows didn't get too dark.
Ryan, 4:39 PM. Canon EOS R3, Canon EF 100-400mm IS L II on EF to RF adapter at 330 mm wide-open at f/5.6 hand-held at 1/250 at ISO 320 (LV 11⅓), Canon 580EX II flash on-camera, Perfectly Clear for one-click eye, skin and teeth optimization. bigger or fit-to-screen.
I shot from about 15 feet (4.5 meters) and zoomed in to 330 mm as that's what I do to get natural facial rendition; shooting closer with a 105mm lens just wouldn't look the same. The worst thing these past two years is the whole world showing themselves from arm's length with self-portraits and laptop cameras; you need to be about 15 feet (4.5 meters) away to make faces look natural.
I held the camera vertically, and deliberately held it so the flash was to the left since the sun was coming slightly from the right.
I set my EOS R3 to Program exposure, JPG Large (Quality 4), Auto ISO, Auto White Balance, Portrait Picture Style and set sharpening strength to 7. Everything else was left at default settings; point and shoot.
$250 off: SanDisk 4TB Extreme Portable SSD V2 (1,000 MB/s): $549.99.
I bought a 2TB version for myself for Christmas and it's AWESOME!!! It's a tiny, indestructible ultrafast drive. Its smaller than any other portable hard drive and stores everything, and is just as fast as your laptop's internal SSD — and waaay faster than any built-in HDD.
On my external SSD not only can I backup, store and transfer huge photo and video libraries fast, I have other volumes on it with bootable copies of my desktop Mac Pro so that I can run my laptop as if it were my desktop Mac with all its data and programs, and also have access to all its files anyplace out in the field. (Of course I don't use online remote access because if I can get on my Mac over the internet, so can everyone else!) The portable SSD is flat and just a couple of inches on a side. I also have other bootable volumes on it with different versions of the Mac operating system so I can try them out.
I've used Super Duper to make bootable copies of all my drives as backups every day for the past 20 years. Best $28 I've ever spent. I bought it once 20 years ago and had free upgrades ever since.
Hint: I paid more for my Extreme PRO version, rated for 2,000 MB/s, but actual speeds are limited by your hardware, interface and choice of cable. I only measure 950 MB/s directly connected to my 2017 MacBook Pro's 40 Gb/s Thunderbolt 3 port with a Thunderbolt cable, so I wouldn't pay more for the PRO version next time; the 1,000 MB/s version would most likely work just as fast.
$75 off: Manfrotto MT190CXPRO3 tripod kits.
Panasonic Camera Rebates.
Panasonic Lens Rebates.
Sale: Luminar Neo preorder.
Sale: Luminar AI.
Sale for those who already own Luminar AI or Aurora HDR: Luminar Neo & free HDR.
I use Luminar AI to add clouds; it also does people editing for skin and eyes and fat reduction and much more. I use Aurora HDR to take my photos from plan to insane!!! as you can see at my Yosemite shots.
Deals good through Monday, 31 January 2022.
22/1/22, Saturday
$400 off: Nikon Z6: $1,596.95.
$200 off: Fuji X-T4: $1,499.95.
$70 off: Sennheiser HD 450BT Noise-Canceling Bluetooth Headphones: $129.95.
New at Crutchfield: Canon EOS R5C.
19 January 2022, Wednesday
New: Canon EOS R5C 45MP still & 8K Digital Cinema Camera. (Also at Adorama and at Crutchfield.)
It adds a cooling fan and more features from Canon's cine cameras to the EOS R5.
New: Nikon Z 400mm f/2.8 VR. (Also at Adorama.)
Nikon Z 400mm f/2.8 VR on Z9. bigger.
Nikon Z 400mm f/2.8 VR. bigger.
Teleconverter switch. Just flip it to engage or disengage the internal converter. bigger.
It weighs only 6.45 pounds (2,950 g) and has a built-in 1.4x teleconverter. Flip a lever at the back of the lens to put it in the optical path, and BINGO!, 560mm f/4! Flip the lever back, and BINGO!, back to 400mm f/2.8! Wow!
My AF-I 400mm f/2.8 I bought in the 1990s has no VR and weighs 14 pounds (6,600 g), so I haven't wanted to carry or use it ever since I got my first AF-D 80-400mm VR in 2004!
When you shoot all day for a living, never underestimate the value of a lighter-weight lens.
Another reason I'm glad I upgraded to Canon in 2012 is because my 1990s AF-I 400mm f/2.8 only sort of works with the FTZ/II, and my first AF-D 80-400mm VR won't autofocus at all on the FTZ/II. The thousands and thousands of dollars I invested are now bust, while all of my Canon EF lenses work flawlessly on my Canon mirrorless, especially my 1988 EF 300mm f/2.8L and 1989 EF 80-200mm f/2.8L, both of which now add image stabilization on my EOS R3, R5 and R6!
New: HK-42 hood. (included).
New: CL-L3 soft case. (included).
New: LC-K105 front lens cover. (included).
New: LN-3 lens strap. (included).
New: C-PL 460 drop-in polarizer. (sorry, not included).
18 January 2022, Tuesday
It's about time: Photographs from Yosemite & the Eastern Sierra.
These are my snaps from the trip I helped lead back in October.
I got started on them, then the holidays happened at the same time as I got some cool new software (Skylum Aurora HDR and Skylum Luminar AI (updated as Luminar Neo for 2023)). This new software, especially Aurora HDR, made many of my images look so much better I went back to the beginning and redid many of them.
This and the usual distractions of the holidays is why it's taken me three months to share some photos. Enjoy!
13 January 2022, Thursday
LEICA M11 mit SUMMILUX-M 50mm f/1.4 ASPH.
NEU: LEICA M11.
I'll say it: for the first time since the dawn of time, LEICA finally goes to 11.
60 MP.
Only 0.73× finder magnification.
No video, thank goodness.
It has lower-resolution 36 MP und 18MP settings, which are the same as digital cameras have done since the 1990s. LEICA was simply clever enough to gin it up, claiming magical noise reduction and dynamic-range enhancement. Well, maybe - but this is these same minor improvements happen in every digital camera when you shoot them at lower resolution settings. In fact, you get these same advances when you reduce resolution later in Photoshop; no big deal, but LEICA's true claims impress those without PhDs in digital image processing who don't realize that this applies to all digital images.
In fact, if they are simply "binning" (not a real word in DSP), that means simply averaging blocks, rather than the usual bicubic convolution that everyone else does. Bicubic convolution as you all know is more complex and works better to increase dynamic range and reduce noise than simple averaging — but LEICA knows you don't really know that. Ignore this "Multi Resolution" claim. Geesh!
The M11 comes in schwarz und silber.
Accessories:
NEU: LEICA VISOFLEX 2.
NEU: Hand Grip.
NEU: Thumb Grip, schwarz.
NEU: Strap, schwarz.
NEU: Strap, Cognac.
NEU: Strap, olivgrün.
NEU: Half Case, schwarz.
NEU: Half Case, Cognac.
NEU: Half Case, olivgrün.
NEU: Screen Protector.
New at Crutchfield: LEICA M11, schwarz.
New at Crutchfield: LEICA M11, silber.
New at Crutchfield: LEICA VISOFLEX 2.
New at Crutchfield: LEICA M11 grip.
New at Crutchfield: LEICA M11 half case, schwarz.
New at Crutchfield: LEICA M11 battery, schwarz.
New at Crutchfield: LEICA M11 battery, silber.
NEU: M11-to-iPhone (USB-C to Lightning) Cable.
Connect your M11 to your iPhone. Why bother? I made this shot on my iPhone 13 Pro Max back in October:
Half Dome in Last Light, Cooks Meadow, Yosemite National Park, 6:12 P.M. Apple iPhone 13 Pro Max 9mm (77mm eq.) camera at f/2.8 at 1/122 at Auto ISO 50 (LV 10.9), Snapseed on iPhone to bump it up, Skylum Luminar AI (updated as Luminar Neo for 2023) in my Mac to add clouds and finally Skylum Aurora HDR to add snap and vignetting, all from my one original JPG file. bigger or fit-to-screen.
Spares:
NEU: M11 Battery Charger.
NEU: M11 Battery, schwarz.
NEU: M11 Battery, silber.
New at Crutchfield: Nikon Z 28-75mm f/2.8.
08 January 2022, Saturday
World's First: RitzGear SDXC Express 7.0 256GB 820/500 MB/s Read/Write: $199.99.
The newest, fastest-rated SD card on the planet that's actually shipping.
Be sure to click the $100 rebate coupon option to get this price.
NEW: OWC Thunderbolt 3 Dock Review.
Front, OWC Thunderbolt 3 Dock.
Rear, OWC Thunderbolt 3 Dock.
For Christmas I manned-up and had Santa bring me an OWC Thunderbolt 3 Dock for desktop use with my 2017 MacBook Pro. It's the fastest SD card reader I've tested, as shown in my Hub & Card Reader Speed Test.
Compared to the cheap made-in-China items I tested in December in my Hub & Card Reader Speed Test, this pro dock just gets the job done, and does it well and without hiccups. It just goes, as we expect. One cord connects to my MacBook Pro and now I've got power and a slew of drives, devices, Internet and monitors all connected. Neat!
07 January 2022, Friday
In Stock: Sony A7 IV.
In Stock: Sony A7 IV w/28-70mm.
New Kit: Canon EOS-R w/128GB Extreme PRO, Røde mic, LED light, case & more: $1,599.
$200 off: Fuji XT-4: $1,499.95.
05 January 2022, Wednesday
Canon PowerShot ZOOM Stabilized Compact Digital Monocular.
New: Canon PowerShot ZOOM.
Pocket-sized telephoto viewer and telephoto camera.
New: B&W 702 S2 Speakers.
This is great; B&H now carries these B&W speakers. I've used B&W speakers since the 1990s. I have a pair of 805s on my desktop used with a stereo pair of ASW 800 subwoofers behind my desk for my computer, 802s and a stereo pair of ASW 850 subwoofers in my movie theatre and a pair of 801s in my music room. Bravo!
What Was New in:
November ~ December 2021: Canon RF 16mm f/2.8 STM Review, Canon RF 100-400mm IS USM Review, Canon EF 28-80mm f/2.8-4 L ULTRASONIC Review, Nikon Z 28-75mm f/2.8, Nikon Z 28mm f/2.8, Nikon Z 800mm f/6.3, Leica Q2 Reporter Edition, Best USB-C Card Readers, Docks & Hubs Compared, Mitakon 90mm f/1.5 Review, McIntosh MQ 107 Environmental Equalizer Review.
October 2021: Nikon Z9, Nikon Z 18-140mm VR DX, Nikon Z 24-120mm f/4, Nikon Z 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 VR, Nikon FTZ II, Canon STEREOSCOPIC RF 5.2mm f/2.8L 190º Fisheye, Canon RF 14-35mm f/4L IS USM Review, Canon EF 135mm f/2.8 Soft Focus Review, Sony A7 IV, Sony FE 70-200mm f/2.8 GM OSS II, Apple Watch Series 7.
July ~ September 2021: Nikon Z fc Review, Nikon Z7 II User's Guide, Nikon Z FX 28mm f/2.8 Special Edition, Nikon Z 40mm f/2, Nikon Z 50mm f/2.8 Macro Review, Nikon Z 105mm f/2.8 VR Macro Review, Canon EOS R3, Canon RF 16mm f/2.8 STM, Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM Macro Review, Canon RF 100~400mm IS USM, Canon DM-E1D Stereo Mic, Canon ST-E10 Speedlite Transmitter, Canon AD-P1 Android Data Transmitter Adapter, Canon AD-E1 Normal to Multi-Function Shoe Adapter, Sony ZV-E10, Sony FE 14mm f/1.8 GM Review, Sony FE 24mm f/2.8 Review, Sony FE 40mm f/2.5 Review, Sony FE 50mm f/2.5 Review, Sony FE 50mm f/1.2 GM Review, Fuji GFX 50S II, Fuji GF 35-70mm, Fuji GFX 50S II w/35-70mm, Fuji X-T30 II, Fuji XF 23mm f/1.4, Fuji XF 33mm f/1.4, Sigma 24mm f/2 DG DN, Sigma 90mm f/2.8 DG DN full-frame für LEICA L, Sigma 150-600mm f/5-6.3 for Sony and for LEICA L, Tamron 18-300mm for Sony APS-C and for Fuji, Tamron 35~150mm f/2~2.8 for Sony, Laowa Argus 35mm f/0.95 Review, Godox Ving V860III TTL Li-Ion Flash, Megadap Sony to Nikon Z Lens Adapter, TTArtisan 35mm f/1.4 ASPH Review, Voigtländer Heliar Classic 50mm f/1.5, Audeze LCD-XC Planar Magnetic Headphones full review.
April ~ June 2021: Photographs from California's Central Coast, Canon EOS R3, Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM III Review, Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM Macro, Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro Review, All Canon 100mm Lenses Compared, Canon RF 400mm f/2.8L IS, Canon RF 600mm f/4L IS, Nikon Z7 II Review, Nikon Z fc, Nikon Z 14-24mm f/2.8 Review, Nikon Z FX 28mm f/2.8 Special Edition, Nikon Z 50mm f/2.8 Macro, Nikon Z 50mm f/1.2 Review, Nikon Z 58mm f/0.95 Noct Review, Nikon Z 105mm f/2.8 VR Macro, Sony A1 Review, Sony A6100 Review, Sony E 16-55mm f/2.8 G Review, Sony FE 14mm f/1.8 GM Review, Sony FE 35mm f/1.4 GM Review, Sony E 70-350mm G OSS Review, Fujifilm X-E4 Review, Fuji X-S10 Review, Fuji XF 10-24mm f/4 R OIS WR Review, Fuji XF 18mm f/1.4R LM WR, Fuji XF 27mm f/2.8 R WR Review, Fuji XF 70-300mm R LM OIS WR Review, LEICA M10-R in black paint, Pentax K-3 Mk III, iRig Pre 2 XLR Mic to Mirrorless, DSLR, iOS, Phone or Computer Preamplifier, Robus RTH-1050 55-lb Capacity Ball Head Review, Ritz Gear 256 GB CFexpress card, Turboant Thunder T1 Electric Bike Review.
January ~ March 2021: Canon RF 50mm f/1.8 STM review, Canon RF 70-200mm f/4L IS review, Canon RF 85mm f/2 MACRO IS STM review, Canon EL-1 Flash review, Nikon Z9 review, SONY A1 review, Sony A7C review, Sony FE 28-60mm review, Sony FE 24mm f/2.8 G, Sony FE 40mm f/2.5 G and Sony FE 50mm f/2.5 G, Sony FE 35mm f/1.4 GM, Sony FE 50mm f/1.2 GM review, iPhone 12 Pro Max review & guide, Apple Watch Series 6 review & guide, LEICA APO-SUMMICRON-M 35mm f/2 ASPH, LEICA 50mm f/1.2 NOCTILUX-M ASPH, Fuji GFX 100S, Fuji GF 80mm f/1.7 R WR, Fuji X-E4, Fuji XF 27mm f/2.8 R WR, Fuji 70-300mm f/4-5.6 R LM OIS WR, Ritz 256GB 265/120 MB/s V60 SD card, Mitakon 50mm f/0.95 review, 7Artisans 50mm f/1.05 review, Polsen MVP-3 Micro Shotgun Microphone, Polsen MVP-6 Shotgun Microphone, Polsen MO-CPL2 USB-C Lavalier Microphone, Polsen SCL-1080 Dual-Pattern Shotgun Microphone
October ~ December 2020: Canon 1DX Mark III Review, Canon RF 50mm f/1.8 STM Review, Canon RF 70-200mm f/4 L IS USM Review, Canon EOS M50 Mk II, Big EL-1 flash and odd compact PowerShot Zoom 100-400mm P&S, Canon PIXMA Pro-200, Nikon Z5 Review, Nikon Z6 II Review, Nikon Z7 II Review, Nikon Z 20mm f/1.8 Review, Nikon Z 24-50mm Review, Nikon Z 24-200mm Review, Nikon Z 70-200mm f/2.8 Review, Fuji 50mm f/1.0 Review, Fuji X-S10, Fuji 10-24mm f/4 OIS WR R, LEICA Q2 Monochrom, LEICA SL-2 S, ZEISS ZX1, Audeze LCD-X Headphones Review, TTArtisan 50mm f/1.4 ASPH Review, Sigma 105mm f/2.8 Macro for Sony E or LEICA, Megadap Any Lens to Nikon Z Autofocusing Adapter Review, Oben CTT-1000L Compact Tripod Review, MacCase iPad Pro Case Review.
May ~ September 2020: Canon EOS R5, Canon EOS R6, Canon EOS R, RP, R5 & R6 Compared, Canon RF 15~35mm f/2.8L, Canon RF 24-70mm f/2.8L IS, Canon RF 24-105mm IS STM, Canon RF 24-240mm, Canon RF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS, Canon RF 85mm f/1.2L USM, Canon RF 85mm f/1.2 L DS USM, Canon RF 85mm f/1.2L versus f/1.2L DS, Canon RF 85mm f/2 Macro IS STM, Canon RF 100-500mm, Canon RF 600mm IS STM, Canon RF 800mm IS STM, Canon RF 1.4× extender, Canon RF 2× extender, Canon 90D, Canon Rebel T8i (EOS 850D), Nikon Z5, Nikon Z 14-24mm f/2.8, Nikon Z 24-50mm, Nikon Z 50mm f/1.2, Nikon Z TC-1.4× teleconverter, Nikon Z TC-2× teleconverter, Sony A7c, Sony A9 II, Sony A7S III, Sony FE 12-24mm f/2.8 GM, Sony LA-EA5 Adapter, Apple Watch Series 6, Fuji X-T4, Fuji X-T200, Fuji XC 35mm f/2, Fuji XF 50mm f/1.0, LEICA M10-R, LEICA Q2, LEICA Q2 User's Guide, LEICA Q2 vs Fuji X100F vs iPhone 11 Pro Max vs Canon 90D, LEICA vs iPhone vs Fuji vs Canon, LEICA SF-24D, Hasselblad 907X 50C, ZEISS SONNAR 50mm f/1.5, Tokina Opera 50mm f/1.4, Luxli Timpani, Cello and Viola2, Audeze LCD-1 Headphones.
April 2020: Fuji XF 16-80mm f/4 Review, Canon RF 24-105mm f/4-7.1 STM, Canon C300 Mk III, Canon 25-250mm T2.95 Cine, Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mk III, Irix Full-Frame, Manual Focus 45mm f/1.4, Laowa 210º 4mm f/2.8 Fisheye, Lensbaby Velvet 28mm f/2.5, Rokinon AF 75mm f/1.8, Tamron 70-180mm f/2.8 for Sony, DJI Mavic Air 2 , DJI Mavic 2 Pro 4K , BlackMagic Pocket Cinema 6K, Zoom H6 Recorder Review.
January ~ March 2020: Photo Products of the Decade 1820~2020, Nikon D6, Nikon D780, Nikon D780 Plain-English User's Guide, Nikon 120-300mm f/2.8 FL VR, Nikon Z 20mm f/1.8, Nikon Z 24-200mm, Nikon Z 70-200mm f/2.8 VR, Nikon Coolpix P950, Canon 1DX Mark III, Canon Rebel T8i, Canon EOS-R5, Canon RF 100-500mm f/4.5-7.1L IS USM, Canon RF 24-105 f/4~7.1 IS STM, Canon QX10 Pocket Portable Printer, Sony A7R IV Review & User's Guide, Sony FE 20mm f/1.8, Sony E 50mm f/1.8 OSS, Sony E 55-210mm OSS, Fuji X100V, Fuji X100V Plain-English User's Guide, Fuji X-T4, Fuji X-T200, Fuji XC 35mm f/2, Fuji GF 45-100mm f/4 OIS, LEICA M10 Monochrom, LEICA SUMMILUX-M 35mm f/1.4 ASPH Edition "LEITZ Wetzlar, LEICA S3, Tokina 85mm f/1.8 for Sony full-frame, Laowa 65mm f/2.8 2× Ultra-Macro, Think Tank Retrospective Backpack 15, Fringer Canon EF -> Fuji X Adapter, Fringer Canon EF -> Nikon Z Adapter, DJI Mavic 2 Zoom with Smart Controller, Senal SMH-1200 Review.
November & December 2019: Fall Color from Yosemite and California's Eastern Sierra, Nikon Z50 Full Review, Nikon Z50 Plain-English User's Guide, Nikon Z DX 16-50mm VR Review, Nikon Z DX 50-250mm VR Review, Nikon Z 85mm f/1.8 Review, Nikon Z 24mm f/1.8 Review, Sony A6600 Review, Sony A6600 User's Guide, Canon EOS Ra Astro Mirrorless, Fujifilm X-Pro3 Review, Fuji GFX 100 Review, Fuji GF 50mm f/3.5 Review, Apple Watch Series 5 Review, Apple 32" Pro 6K Display, Apple 32" Pro 6K Display w/nano textured glass, Photo Mechanic Software Review, Tokina 100mm f/2.8 Full Frame for Canon EF, LEICA SL2, Sigma 24-70/2.8 for Sony, Sigma 24-70/2.8 für LEICA L, Turboant X7 Review.
August ~ October 2019: iPhone 11 Pro Max, Canon RF 15-35mm f/2.8, Canon RF 24-70mm f/2.8, Canon RF 85mm f/1.2 L USM DS, Canon RF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM, Canon EOS 1DX Mark III, Canon 90D, Canon EOS-M200, Canon M6 Mk II, Fuji X-Pro3, Fuji X-E3 Review, Fuji X-A7, Fuji XC 15-45mm PZ OIS Review, Fuji XC 50-230mm OIS Review, Fuji Touch Screen Settings, Nikon D3500 review, Nikon Z 24mm f/1.8 S Review, Nikon Z 85mm f/1.8 Review, Nikon Noct-NIKKOR Z 58mm f/0.95, Nikon Z50, Nikon Z 16-50mm DX VR, Nikon Z 50-250mm DX VR, Nikon 200mm f/2 VR II Review, Panasonic S1H, Panasonic 24-70mm f/2.8, Pansonic LEICA DG 25mm f/1.4 II, Rokinon AF 18mm f/2.8, Sigma fp w/45mm lens, Sony A9 II, Tamron 20mm f/2.8, Tamron 24mm f/2.8, Tamron 35mm f/2.8, Voigtländer Nokton 75mm f/1.5, Auray TT-6220 Telescoping Tabletop Mic Stand Review, Auray PFNY-6 Mic Pop Filter Review, Senal SCM-660 Microphone Review, XUMA MTA-300B iPhone/Smartphone Tripod Adapter Review.
July 2019: Rockwell.TV on YouTube, Nikon Z 24-70mm f/2.8 Review, Nikon Z 35mm f/1.8 Review, Nikon Z 50mm f/1.8 Review, Canon RF 24~240mm IS, Sony A7R Mark IV, Sony RX100 Mark VII, Sony FE 35mm f/1.8 review, LEICA M-E typ 240, Hasselblad 907X Special Edition, Fujifilm XF 16-80mm f/4 R OIS WR, Fujifilm GF 50mm f/3.5 R LM WR, ROBUS RC-5570 Tripod Review, Sigma 14-24mm f/2.8 for Sony E und für LEICA L, Sigma 35mm f/1.2 for Sony E und für LEICA L, Sigma 45mm f/2.8 for Sony Eund für LEICA L, Sigma fp mirrorless camera.
April ~ June 2019: Nikon Z6 Review, Nikon Z6 User's Guide, Nikon Z7 User's Guide, Nikon Z 14-30mm Review, Nikon NIKKOR 135mm f/2 AI-s Review, Nikon NIKKOR 180mm f/2.8 AI Review, Nikon NIKKOR✱ED 180mm f/2.8 AI-s Review, Nikon NIKKOR✱ED 200mm f/2 AI-s Review, Zeiss Otus 100mm f/1.4 Review, Sony E 20mm f/2.8 Review, Sony E 30mm f/3.5 Macro Review, Sony E 35mm f/1.8 OSS Review, Sony FE 135mm f/1.8 GM Review, Sony 200-600mm G OSS Review, Sony 600mm f/4 GM OSS Review, Tokina FiRIN 100mm f/2.8 Macro for Sony E, Voigtlander 21mm f/1.4 for Sony Full-Frame, Tamron 17-28mm f/2.8 full-frame ultrawide for Sony E, Canon RF 85mm f/1.2L USM, Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 for Canon RF, Rokinon 85mm f/1.4 for Canon RF, Canon SL3 (EOS 250D), Fujifilm X-H1 Review, Fujifilm X-T30 Review, Fujifilm X-T20 Review, Fujifilm 8-16mm f/2.8 Review, Fujifilm 16mm f/2.8 Review, Fujifilm GFX 100 Review, Fujifilm GF 32~64mm f/4 R LM WR Review, Fujifilm GF 100~200mm f/5.6 R LM OIS WR Review, Medium-Format vs. Full-Frame Image-Quality Comparison, Apple iPhone Xs Max Review & User's Guide, Apple Watch Series 4 Review, All Apple Watches Compared, new 13" MacBook Pro, new 15" MacBook Pro, Olympus TG-6 Underwater Camera, Panasonic LEICA VARIO-SUMMILUX 10-25mm f/1.7, Panasonic DMW-STC14 1.4× teleconverter, Panasonic DMW-STC20 2× teleconverter, Think Tank "Digital Holster 150" for ultrateles, Oben CTT-1000 Mini Tripod Review.
March 2019: Nikon Z7 Review, Nikon Coolpix A1000, Nikon Coolpix B600, Sony E 16mm f/2.8 Review, Sony E 18-200mm OSS PZ Review, Sony E 18-200mm OSS LE Review, Sony RX0 II, Canon IVY CLIQ Instant Camera, Canon IVY CLIQ+ Instant Camera, Fujinon XF 80mm f/2.8 Macro OIS Review, LEICA Q2, LEICA APO-SUMMICRON-SL 35mm f/2 ASPH, Pixel X900 Flash Review, Rokinon Full-Frame ultra-ultra-wide 10mm f/3.5 for Canon EF, Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 Ultra-Ultrawide for Canon RF, Rokinon 85mm f/1.4 for Canon RF.
February 2019: Nikon Z 24-70mm f/2.8 S, Canon EOS RP Hands-On Review, Canon EOS RP User's Guide, Canon EOS RP vs EOS R, Canon RF 35mm f/1.8 Macro IS STM Review, Canon RF 28-70mm f/2L USM Review, Canon RF 85mm f/1.2L USM DS, Canon RF 85mm f/1.2L USM, Canon RF 24-240mm IS USM, Canon RF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM, Canon RF 24-70mm f/2.8L IS USM, Canon RF 15-35mm f/2.8L IS USM, Sony FE 135mm f/1.8 GM, Fujifilm X-T3 Review, Fujifilm 23mm f/2 Review, Fujifilm 200mm f/2 Review, Fujifilm 50mm f/2 Review, Fujifilm XF 16mm f/2.8 WR, Fujifilm X-T30, Panasonic S1 Full-Frame System, Polaroid POP cameras, Ricoh GR III, Ricoh WG-6 underwater, Ricoh WG-6 in Orange, Ricoh G-900, Tokina Opera 16-28mm f/2.8, Tamron 35-150mm, Tamron 35mm f/1.4.
January 2019: LEICA M10-P Safari Edition, LEICA SUMMICRON-M 50mm f/2 Safari Edition, Verum 1 Planar Magnetic Headphones review, Olympus OM-D E-M1 X, Nikon Z 24-70mm f/4 S review, Sony 10-18mm Review, Sony A6400 Review, Sony 18-135mm Review, Sigma 28mm f/1.4 ART, Nikon Z 14-30mm f/4 S and Irix 150mm f/2.8 Macro Review.
November & December 2018: Moment 18mm review, Photos from Yosemite and the Eastern Sierra, Nikon 500mm f/5.6 PF Review, Adapted Rangefinder Lenses on Nikon Mirrorless, AlienBoard Hoverboard review, LEICA D-Lux 7, Why You Need an Apple Watch, Sigma 60-600mm Review.
October 2018: Loads of Canon and Nikon mirrorless revelations, First Chinese Nikon Z adapters, Canon EOS R Review, Canon EOS R User's Guide, Wimberley Gimbal Tripod Head Review, Sony 400mm f/2.8 Review, How to Photograph Air Shows, LEICA M10-D.
August & September 2018: Nikon vs Canon vs Sony Full Frame, Mirrorless vs DSLR, Do You Really Need Two Card Slots, Canon EOS-R Review, Canon EF to RF Lens Adapters, Canon RF 24-105mm Review, Canon RF 28-70mm f/2 L, Canon RF 50mm f/1.2 Review, Canon RF 35mm f/1.8 MACRO IS STM, Canon 70-200mm f/4L IS II Review, Canon EF400mm f/2.8L IS III, Canon EF 600mm f/4L IS II USM, Canon EF-M 32mm f/1.4 STM, Canon 580EX II Review, Canon 580EX II User's Guide, Sony 24mm f/1.4, Sony RX100 Mark 6 Review, Sony RX100 Mk VI User's Guide, Nikon's full-frame mirrorless system, Nikon Z7, Nikon Z6, Nikon Z6 vs. Z7, Nikon FTZ Lens Adapter, Nikon Z 24-70mm f/4, Nikon Z 35mm f/1.8, Nikon Z 50mm f/1.8, Nikon 500mm f/5.6 PF, Nikon D3500, LEICA M10-P, iPhone Xs Max Bokeh vs Full-Frame Professional Cameras, Tokina "Opera" 50mm f/1.4, Tamron 15-30mm f/2.8 G2, Fuji XT-3.
June & July 2018: Nikon Mirrorless hinted at, Fuji 8-16mm f/2.8, Fuji 200mm f/2, Fuji XF10, Sony RX100VA, Nikon P1000, Tamron 100‑400mm Review, best 80-400 and 100-400mm zooms compared, How to Win Photo Contests, Tamron 18-400mm review, Sony 400mm f/2.8, Images of Yosemite in Springtime, Kodak Medalist II Review, Canon 70‑200mm f/4L IS II, Canon 70‑200mm f/2.8 L IS III and my Sony RX100 Mark VI review.
May 2018: Marc Silber's Secrets to Creating Amazing Photos, Sigma 105mm f/1.4, Fuji X-T100, Tamron 15-30mm f/2.8 IS/VR Review, beyerdynamic Amiron Home Review, Sigma 70mm Full-Frame Macro Art Lens, Nikon D1 High ISO Samples, Vello MB-D18 (BG-N19) Grip Review, Sunpak RD2000 Review, Small Flashes Compared.
April 2018: Irix 11mm f/4 Review,Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8, Canon 85mm f/1.4 L IS Review,Tamron 70-200mm f/2.8 VR/IS Review, Best 70-200mm f/2.8 Lenses Compared, Tamron 24-70mm f/2.8 VR/IS Review, Best 24-105mm Lenses Compared, MindShift 18L Backpack, Fuji GF 250mm f/4, Fuji GF 1.4X TC WR Teleconverter, Fuji MCEX-45G WR Macro Extension Tube, Fuji MCEX-18G WR Macro Extension Tube, Sony RX10 Mk IV Review, Sony RX10 Mk IV User's Guide, beyerdynamic Aventho Wireless Review.
March 2018: Nikon 70-300mm AFP E FX Review, Nikon 28mm f/1.4 E FX Review, Nikon 10-20mm Review, Nikon D7500 Review.
February 2018: Sony A7 III, Yosemite Photos, Nikon 50mm f/1.8 Pancake-NIKKOR review, beyerdynamic DT1350 review, beyerdynamic DT240 review, Canon SL2 review.
Janaury 2018: Nikon 180-400mm, Canon 6D Mk II review, Canon 18-135mm USM review, Fuji X-A5, Sony 18-135mm.
December 2017: Canon 35mm f/2.8 Macro review, Sony A7R III review, Sony A7R III user's guide, Sony FE 24-105mm f/4 G OSS review, Sony FE 100mm STF G OSS review.
November 2017: Sony 50/2.8 Macro Review, Sony 90/2.8 Macro Review, LEICA CL, Sony 70-300mm G Review, Panasonic G9, iPhone X Review, How to Make Time Exposures with iPhone, 1X Photo Contest, Tamron 100-400mm.
October 2017: Nikon D850 review, Nikon D850 user's guide, Sony A7R III, Sony 24-105mm G, Sony 85/1.8 review, Canon G1X Mk III.
June, July, August and September 2017: Canon 6D Mk II, Canon SL-2, Canon 85/1.4L, Canon TS-E 50/2.8, 90/2.8 & 135/4, Nikon D850, Nikon 70-300 VR DX AF-P, Nikon 28/1.4E, Metabones Mk V Canon EF -> Sony E-mount adapter.
May 2017: Nikon 10-20mm DX VR, Nikon 8-15mm FX Fisheye, Canon 77D Review, Canon Rebel T7i Review, Canon 18-55mm IS STM Review, Springtime in Yosemite, Irix 15mm f/2.4 Review, Sony 16-35/2.8 GM, Sony 12-24/4 G, Fuji X100F Review, Laowa 12mm Review, Olympus TG-5.
March & April 2017: Nikon D7500, Nikon 19mm PC-E review, Nikon D3400 review, Sony A7 Mk II review, Nikon D5600 review.
February 2017: Canon 77D, Canon Rebel T7i, Canon EOS M6, Sony 24-70/2.8 GM, Sony 85mm f/1.4 GM , Sony 70-200mm f/4 G OSS, Sony FE 100mm f/2.8 STF GM OSS, Sony FE 85mm f/1.8.
January 2017: LEICA M10, Fujifilm GFX 50S, Fujifilm X100F, Nikon D5600.
November & December 2016: Fuji X-A10.
September & October 2016: Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 FL, Nikon 19mm PC-E, Sony A6500, Sony RX100 Mk V, Sony Alpha 99 II, Canon EOS M5, Canon EF 70-300 IS II USM, Sony 50mm f/2.8 Macro.
July & August 2016: Canon 5D Mk IV, 16-35 IS II, 24-105 IS II, Nikon D3400, Nikon 105mm f/1.4, Fuji XT-2.
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