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Lenses & Poses for Window light Glamour

Lenses & Poses for Window light Glamour

One of Farace’s Law’s is that there’s never enough space indoors to shoot a portrait and I’ll often find myself pressed up against a wall opposite the subject when shooting. This translates into having to use shorter lenses than I might normally prefer but that doesn’t mean you can’t make great portraits no matter what lens you have available.

Giving New Life to Old Lenses

Giving New Life to Old Lenses

Olympus and Panasonic introduced the Micro Four-thirds format during Photokina 2008. Unlike the original Four-Thirds system, MFT’s specifications did not provide space for a mirror box and pentaprism, permitting the design of smaller bodies with a shorter (under 20mm) flange focal distance that in turn allowed production of smaller lenses.

Last Minute Gift Ideas: Keeping Your Lenses Clean

Last Minute Gift Ideas: Keeping Your Lenses Clean

I’ve been using LensPen products for a long time, for almost the entire time they’ve been in production going back to a time when I was shooting with Nikon film cameras, And even today, I keep one of the Original Lenspens in each of my camera bags.

Wheels Wednesday: Memory Cards and Coping with CEV Syndrome

Wheels Wednesday: Memory Cards and Coping with CEV Syndrome

Back in the day when every amateur or professional photographer shot with film, photo labs would often receive a roll of 36-exposure 35mm film from their customers for processing and when the prints rolled off their FujiFilm Frontier (or whatever) it would contain photographs that were made during Christmas, Easter and Vacation—all on the same roll