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Every lens on every sensor has a diffraction limit — the aperture beyond which stopping down no longer increases sharpness but instead decreases it. Light diffracts around the aperture blades, spreading the point spread function across adjacent pixels. On a …
An environmental portrait uses the subject’s surroundings to tell part of the story. The standard approach — 85mm at f/1.8, background …
The Sigma 28-45mm f/1.8 DG DN Art is a narrow-range zoom with an unusually wide maximum aperture for its category. f/1.8 across a zoom range …
The Laowa 24mm f/14 2x Macro Probe is not a conventional lens in any respect. It is a 40-centimeter tube with a 14mm front element, designed …
The wide-walk shot — camera held at chest height, walking through a location, the environment flowing past at the edges of the frame — is …
The RF 50mm f/1.2L USM vignettes at f/1.2. This is not a defect to correct in post. Left uncorrected, it is a compositional tool that draws …
The EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM focuses to 1:1 — life size. At minimum focus distance, the working distance between the front element and …
The EF 40mm f/2.8 STM is Canon’s pancake lens — 23mm long, 130 grams, and optically decent enough that photographers have been …
There is a gap in your RF lens lineup that many of us feel every time we head out for a shoot. We have stunning short telephoto primes like …
There’s a strange little lie that clings to photography like static: that better photos come only with better money. Magazines repeat it, …