• Review: Laowa 20mm f/4 Zero-D Shift (Canon RF)

    Review: Laowa 20mm f/4 Zero-D Shift (Canon RF)

    Today I’m taking a deep look at the new Laowa 20mm f/4 Shift lens. As a photographer who shoots quite a lot of architecture, I have always enjoyed shooting with shift lenses. Shift lenses allow for the control of perspective distortion, often shown as converging vertical lines, by allowing you to keep the camera perfectly…

    Jordan Steele

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  • First Impressions: Laowa 20mm f/4 Zero-D Shift

    First Impressions: Laowa 20mm f/4 Zero-D Shift

    I’m excited enough about today’s lens to throw some quick impressions out ahead of a full review. Laowa is the lens brand for Venus Optics, a relatively new optical company that has made quite a splash in the industry over the past 9 years by creating quality lenses that fill niches that the traditional lens…

    Jordan Steele

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  • Review: Canon RF 800mm f/11 IS STM

    Review: Canon RF 800mm f/11 IS STM

    I’ve been reviewing a lot of Canon’s interesting light weight consumer-grade optics as of late, and continues with today’s review of the Canon RF 800mm f/11 IS STM. The 800mm f/11 was announced alongside the similar 600mm f/11 lens, providing super-telephoto reach with a slow aperture and an affordable price. Like many of Canon’s lower…

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  • More Film! This time, Medium Format

    More Film! This time, Medium Format

    Last month, I wrote an article about getting back into shooting film. While I have enjoyed the process of shooting film on my 35mm cameras, the output isn’t quite up to my quality standards given what I’ve been used to with digital. As such, I thought more and more about picking up an old, affordable…

    Jordan Steele

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  • Dabbling with Film

    Dabbling with Film

    I was born in the late 1970s and like many people my age, I grew up with 35mm film as the primary photographic medium for which to capture memories and light. While I didn’t get into photography as a serious hobby until the rise of digital photography in the early 2000s, I shot film for…

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  • Review: Canon RF 100-400mm f/5.6-8 IS USM

    Review: Canon RF 100-400mm f/5.6-8 IS USM

    Canon has been busy churning out lenses for their full-frame RF mount, and this past fall released two interesting consumer-grade lenses. The first is the tiny ultra-wide 16mm f/2.8, which I reviewed recently and really enjoy. The second is the subject of today’s review, the Canon RF 100-400mm f/5.6-8 IS USM. When this lens was…

    Jordan Steele

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  • Macro – Tearing Apart My First Digital Camera

    Macro – Tearing Apart My First Digital Camera

    If you have been a longtime visitor to the site, you may have read a little retrospective I did where I thought back through my journey as a photographer. Mentioned in there was the very first digital camera I ever owned, which was a Kodak DC3400. I got this camera as a college graduation present…

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  • Review: Canon RF 16mm f/2.8 STM

    Review: Canon RF 16mm f/2.8 STM

    When the first details about the Canon RF 16mm f/2.8 STM leaked in 2021, the lens sounded intriguing: the RF system could certainly use a mid-range ultra-wide prime. When later leaks suggested that the lens would cost only $299 and would be the same size as the nifty-fifty RF 50mm f/1.8, I thought there was…

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  3. This article got me thinking… Why does Canon make RF S lenses starting with 18mm when most full frame RF…

  4. Great review. I shoot Nikon and may try an old Nikon D200 and see how it compares with the new…