Tamron 18-400mm f/3.5-6.3 VC HLD Review
Tamron has long been the company that pushes the envelope in “all-in-one” zoom design and have held the top honors of having the largest zoom range in a DSLR lens for most of the past ten years. Years ago I…
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Tamron 18-400mm f/3.5-6.3 VC HLD Image Gallery
Tamron has long been the company that pushes the envelope in “all-in-one” zoom design and have held the top honors of having the largest zoom range in a DSLR lens for most of the past ten years. Years ago I…
Canon EF-S 35mm f/2.8 Macro IS STM Image Gallery
Canon has just released a brand new lens for it’s EF-S (APS-C crop sensor) cameras – the new Canon EF-S 35mm f Macro IS. This lens offers a different approach to macro than the existing EF-S 60mm f USM lens.…
Sigma 100-400mm f/5-6.3 Contemporary Review
First impressions matter. My first two impressions when opening the box and pulling out Sigma’s newest lens – the 100-400mm f DG OS HSM Contemporary – were 1) the lens was smaller than I anticipated (not a lot bigger than…
Zeiss Milvus Distagon T* 35mm f/1.4 Image Gallery
The Carl Zeiss company recently announced another high end prime lens in the Milvus series – the Zeiss Milvus Distagon T* 35mm f The Milvus 35mm f is a completely new optical formula and covers one of the the most important…
Newly Announced: Canon 6D Mark II and SL2 DSLRs
It is a big day for Canon shooters! The EOS 6D Mark II has been announced along with the tiny APS-C DSLR – the EOS SL2. We’ll start with the EOS 6D Mark II. The original 6D was a major…
Tamron 18-400mm f/3.5-6.3 VC HLD Announcement
It’s a little ironic. Information about Tamron’s newest lens, the ground-breaking, more than 22x zoom range 18-400mm f Di II VC HLD, leaked to the Internet the day BEFORE I signed a Non-Disclosure Agreement to get all the info about…
Sigma 100-400mm f/5-6.3 C Image Gallery
Lost in the midst of the higher profile ART series announcements was the announcement of a lens that makes a whole lot more sense for many photographers. The Sigma 100-400mm f OS Contemporary helps to fill an important gap –…
In Praise of Excellence
In Praise of Excellence Don’t get me wrong; I do love to post-process images. It is that second dimension of modern photography where you can take a good photo and make it great. About four years ago I wrote a…
August EP750 Active Noise Cancelling Bluetooth Headphones Review
Putting on a good pair of headphones is a revelation for a music lover. The degree of sonic immersion possible allows music to come alive in a way like nothing short of a very high end audiophile system. The…
Vanguard Alta Fly Rolling Camera Bags (48T) Review
This article was originally published in Photo News Canada and is republished here by permission. One of the most daunting things to do as a photographer is to travel with your expensive gear. There have been moments that I carried…
Voigtländer Ultron 40mm f/2 SL-II Review
My Quiet Rebellion We live in a day of ever-larger lenses. High resolution, pixel dense camera bodies like the Nikon D800, then the Sony A7R II, and then the even more pixel dense Canon EOS 5Ds/R have a tendency…
Sigma 135mm f/1.8 HSM ART Review
Sigma has established a very clear objective with their ART series primes: deliver large aperture prime lenses with class-leading (or near to it) resolution. On multiple occasions they have pushed the envelope of what was possible in maximum aperture…
Sony a7R II Mini Review and Photo Gallery
Followers of my work know that I have long been a Canon only shooter, but recently Zeiss asked me to review a new Batis lens, which required me to borrow a Sony a7R II body from my friends at…
Rokinon (Samyang) SP 14mm f/2.4 Review
The twin brands of Samyang and Rokinon have long been known for manufacturing inexpensive manual focus lenses that have often had excellent optical performance. The very first Rokinon lens I used/reviewed was the Rokinon 14mm f wide angle lens. At the…
Zeiss Batis 135mm f/2.8 Apo Sonnar T* Review
So I finally have in my hands an autofocusing Zeiss with image stabilization to boot. Have I died and gone to heaven? Not quite. It is then that I wake up and realize that the Batis 135 isn’t actually for…
Sigma 135mm f/1.8 DG HSM ART Image Gallery
Another long awaited lens from the Sigma ART series has arrived – the new Sigma 135mm f ART. It looks nearly identical to the 85 ART, though just a tiny bit smaller in every dimension. Optically it pushes the envelope…
Tamron 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 VC HLD Review
APS-C shooters can be forgiven for feeling like they sometimes get left out in the cold when it comes to quality development for their platform. Canon, for example, has an interesting dichotomy. Many of their lens releases for full…