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Nikon's 24-70mm f/2.8 Z-Mount Lens is 'The New Benchmark': DxOMark
We'll start with the conclusion. DxOMark has dubbed Nikon's NIKKOR Z 24-70mm f/2.8 S lens "the new benchmark for 24-70mm lenses." The lens' overall score
Why a Manual Focus Lens Will Make You a Better Photographer
Great photographers for National Geographic, Time, Magnum, and many others are using not only manual focus lenses, but also film cameras.
Why You Should Consider Embracing Prime Lenses
No doubt, zoom lenses are extremely convenient and useful for a wide variety of applications across a wide range of genres. Nonetheless, prime lenses can help you improve by forcing you into creative problem-solving, and this fantastic video essay discusses why you might want to try using them more often. Coming to you from Brian Matiash, this great video essay discusses why you should consider working…
Learn to Read Your Camera Lens
Pretty Presets and Mom & Camera have put together another simple tip sheet about understanding camera lenses so you can get the most out of them.
How to Peek Inside Your Photos With Google Lens
Wish you could learn more about the pictures you take? Google Lens can identify the people, places, and things you've captured in your photos.
The FASTEST way to learn camera lenses!
A beginners guide to learning lenses. We explain the fastest ways to pick up the basics with prime lenses or zooms for filmmaking. Intro to camera lenses vid...
How to use manual focus on your dSLR lens
Ditch autofocus for manual focus mode to get more precise control over your shots. Find out how to get started using manual focus, and which scenarios call for it.
How Lens Adapters and Speedboosters Work
Your camera is basically just a light-tight box. The lens is where a lot of the magic happens. From a fisheye with a 180 degree field of view to a super
6 Tips for Near-Macro Photography with a Telephoto Lens
Do you want to capture beautiful near-macro photography images? Learn the tips and tricks that will take your close-ups to the next level!
How One Mathematician Solved a 2,000-Year-Old Camera Lens Problem
It's frustrated photographers and scientists for centuries.
Tips For Achieving Blurry Backgrounds When You Don't Have a Fast Lens
Achieving blurry backgrounds in your photos doesn't have to be hard. You just have to know two simple techniques! Learn how to achieve beautiful backgrounds with any lens.
How to crop your photos for impact and creativity
One of the big selling points of high resolution cameras like the Nikon D810 and Canon 5DS are the ability to “crop in post”. Typically when people say this, though, they mean their lenses aren’t long enough and they want to be able to crop into the detail. Or, they’re tracking a moving subject that …
Why I Am a Visual Storyteller: It has Nothing to do with F-Stops!
For me photography is not about the technical workings of a camera, it is not about arguing over Nikon v. Canon and it is definitely not about being over the top about f-stops. Sure, knowing how th…
What Aperture Does, In Two Photos
Curious about why you’d want to pay attention to that f/number on your camera settings? Consider: Same subject, same lens, same camera, very different image.
10 Tips for Photographing Wide-Angle Landscapes
A wide-angle lens is often the favourite lens in the kit for landscape photographers and with these tips it may become your favourite lens too.
How Focal Length and Subject Distance Affect Weight... As Seen with a Cat
We've written a couple of times in the past on how you can achieve drastically different portrait looks by choosing different lens focal lengths and subjec
5 Lens Tricks for Creative Portraits
Adding creative elements to your portraits is an effective way of making them appear more interesting. And you don’ need to spend too much of your hard earned cash to do so. Photographers Lin and Jirsa share five cheap lens hacks to help you take your portraits to the next level: 1. Plastic Wrap Crush [...]
Super blue blood snow moon eclipse: How to take amazing photographs
How to Deal With Distortion in Wide Angle Lenses
John Greengo talks about distortion, shows you what it looks like in a variety of focal lengths and how to use it to your advantage.
