Tag Archives: looks
Watch This: Bitrate And The Reason High-Quality Video Sometimes Looks So Bad
How To Confetti, snow, and other tiny things can cause big problems with video quality A clever video explains why lots of movement in a video can compromise its quality… Popular Photography
New Gear: The Ona Madison Is a Super-Stylish Camera Bag That Looks Like a Purse
Gear This is one classy camera bag Ona has announced The Madison, a leather handbag built for carrying a laptop and camera gear… Popular Photography
First Looks at Tamron 85mm f/1.8 Di VC USD Lens Image Quality
Image quality results from the EOS 5Ds R and 1Ds Mark III have been added to the Tamron 85mm f/1.8 Di VC USD Lens page. This lens is looking quite impressive, especially in the periphery, even wide open. Check out the … Continue reading
First Looks at Canon EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Lens Image Quality
Image quality have been added to the Canon EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Lens Review. We should expect this lens to deliver iamge quality similar to the Canon EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM Lens. Here is the comparison: Canon EF-S 18-135mm … Continue reading
First Looks at Tokina 14-20mm f/2 AT-X Pro DX Lens Image Quality
Image quality results from the EOS 7D Mark II have been added to the Tokina 14-20mm f/2 AT-X Pro DX Lens page. If you are shooting APS-C format and have been wanting an aperture wider than f/2.8 in focal lengths wider … Continue reading
This Is What It Looks Like To Shoot Video Through a Large Format Camera Lens From 1880
By now, we have posted a couple videos from Mathiu Stern’s “Weird Lens Challenge,” but I’m not sick of them yet, so here’s the latest one. This time, he has mounted a 136 year-old large-format lens with an early mechanical … Continue reading
How to Create 5 Different Looks Using Lightroom
Most often you may strive to capture photos which most closely reflect the scene the way it looks to your eye. On the other hand, with having powerful editing software at your fingertips and an insatiable creative streak, sometimes you … Continue reading
First looks at Zeiss Milvus 21mm f/2.8 Lens Image Quality
Image quality results from the 1Ds III, 5Ds R and 7D Mark II have been added to the Zeiss Milvus 21mm f/2.8 Lens page. This beautiful lens is using the same optical design as its predecessor, the Zeiss 21mm f/2.8 Distagon … Continue reading
This Red Bull BMX Video Looks Like a Video Game Thanks to Clever Camera Tricks
I’m not a fan of Red Bull the drink, but their Media House is responsible for some seriously cool stuff. A recent project called Kaleidoscope is a BMX bike video starring rider Kriss Kyle and it’s one of the most … Continue reading
First looks at Zeiss Milvus 100mm f/2M Lens Image Quality
Image quality results have been added to the Zeiss Milvus 100mm f/2M Lens page. Image sharpness, while extremely good, is not alone going to drive many upgrades from the Zeiss 100mm f/2 Macro Lens because … it was already great. However, … Continue reading
Leica dismisses the DSLR and looks to a mirrorless future
Leica, the sometime staid manufacturer of traditional old-school cameras, has suddenly become all tech-savvy and is now forecasting that mirrorless system cameras with electronic viewfinders are the future of photography. It’s easy to see why when you look into the … Continue reading
The Many Looks From Telezooms
How-ToText And Photography By Daniel J. Cox I remember my first zoom lens, the Nikkor 80-200mm