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The 135mm f/2 has near-mythical status among event and reportage shooters: it compresses backgrounds, isolates a subject from a crowded room, and lets you work a few rows back without feeling like you’re in someone’s face. But at full-frame prices, it’s a hard …
Canon’s RF 100-400mm f/5.6-8 IS USM sells new for $749 and used for under $700. At that price, in a mount ecosystem where the equivalent …
The Canon R100 is the least expensive entry point in the RF mirrorless system, and Canon has been reasonably candid about what corners were …
The 70-200mm f/2.8 is the most universally deployed professional zoom in photography. Wedding photographers, sports shooters, …
There are lenses you respect and lenses you love. The RF 85mm f/1.2L USM belongs to both categories simultaneously, which is a rarer …
The EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM — not the L version, the original — is the overlooked sibling of Canon’s more celebrated L-series macro. At …
The arithmetic of cropped sensors and telephoto glass is one of the more useful free lunches in photography. The Canon R7 — a serious APS-C …
The argument for medium format has always been tonal, not pixel-numeric. Photographers who have shot both full-frame and medium format …
The Helios 44-2 58mm f/2 is a Soviet-era lens manufactured at the KMZ optical plant in Krasnogorsk, produced in quantities so large that the …
The Jupiter-9 85mm f/2 is a Soviet optical instrument derived from the pre-war Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar design, manufactured at the KMZ …
