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Leica Reinvents a Classic for the Modern SL-System With This New Full-Frame Macro Lens

Almost lost in the shuffle of Leica releasing its new 8K Open Gate SL3-P mirrorless camera, a major upgrade to the company’s SL system with some of the most advanced photography an...

Save Big on Macro Photography Essentials

Looking to upgrade your macro photography kit? These great deals on dedicated macro lenses, ring flashes, tripods, focusing rails, and essential support gear will help you capture...

The 5 Best Macro Lenses You Can Buy Right Now, According to One Photographer Who's Tested Them All

Macro lenses sit in a strange corner of the gear market: specialized enough that many skip them entirely, but capable of images that are hard to get any other way. The surge in mac...

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Macro Photography for Beginners: A Simple Guide to Stunning Close-Ups

Small details often go unnoticed. However, in macro photography for beginners, those details become the subject. Tiny textures, patterns, and shapes suddenly feel larger than life....

5 Lenses Nobody Gets Excited About That Produce More Photos Than Anything in Your Bag

Photography publications, including this one, spend most of their editorial energy on exciting lenses. The fastest aperture in the category. The sharpest optic in the lineup. The n...

The smartphone camera's most overlooked ingredient? Leica says it's still the lens

TJ Walton, Xiaomi's Senior Product Marketing Manager and Global Spokesperson (center) and Pablo Acevedo Noda, Head of Development and Engineering for Leica's mobile division (right...

Easy Macro Photography Tips for Incredible Close-Up Photos

Looking to improve your macro photography? This guide explores techniques for capturing sharper close-up images of flowers, insects, products, food, and more, along with recommende...

Classic Camera Revival – Episode 227 | Lens Tetralogy III – Portraits

Before we get to long lenses, we’re going into lenses that are designed for portraits, it doesn’t matter if you’re talking headshots, couples, quarter length, these are amazing len...

ZEISS Panoptes 65 large-format cinema primes

ZEISS will be showing its ten-focal-length Panoptes 65 large-format prime set at Cine Gear Expo LA next week and has released new details on what looks to be some very classy glass...

Laowa’s Insanely Wide Fisheye Zoom Lens is Muffin-Sized

Venus Optics has announced the Laowa 4.5-10mm f/2.8 CF fisheye zoom lens designed for APS-C or Micro Four Thirds cameras that has an incredible 180-degree field of view at the shor...

ZEISS Goes Large Format With New Ten-Lens Set of Pantopte 65 Cinema Primes

Big, BIG news today for large-format filmmakers: ZEISS has dropped a new set of cinema prime lenses. This new ten-lens set of large-format cinema primes will range from 25mm to 180...

spare eyes

Toronto. Industrial cameras which need to be ready 24/7 are backed by stores of spare parts. Lenses included. We have all seen lenses with various dents and bends all too apparent...

Macro Photography Lighting: Master Light for Stunning Close-Ups

In macro photography, light does more than illuminate; it defines texture, depth, and detail. In macro photography lighting, even the smallest adjustment can dramatically change yo...

Moment Introduces Its Latest Lineup of Mobile Optics for Your Smartphones

It seems like decades ago at this point, but before debates about generative, agentic, and AI in general, the hot topic in the film and video community was whether smartphones coul...

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Toronto. … of millions and millions of improved designs and variations. Almost all smartphones have a camera module these days. In the phone, the camera computer works its magic so...

The Art of the Tiny: 28 Macro Photos That Turn Small Moments Into Masterpieces

There’s something seriously wild about macro photography. One second, you’re walking past a flower without thinking twice, and the next, a close-up shot reveals an entire universe...

Classic Camera Revival – Episode 226 | Lens Tetralogy II – Normals

While everyone always associates the term “normal lens” with the 50mm focal length, here at CCR, we’re going with more of a range between 28mm and 60mm. In reality, normal human vi...

Laowa 4.5-10mm f/2.8 CF Zoom Fisheye Lens

Laowa has announced the 4.5-10mm f/2.8 CF Zoom Fisheye, which was designed specifically for APS-C and Micro Four Thirds (MFT) cameras. It is being referred to as a compact “muffin-...

An Invisible Universe: 30 Jaw-Dropping Macro Photos That Will Change How You See Nature

Most of us wander through nature without noticing all the wonders right in front of us. A flower often blends into the scenery, a leaf fades into the background, and a tiny insect...

Ultra-Wide 0.5x Lenses Have Utility Beyond ‘Photography’

Some follow-up thoughts on my earlier piece, regarding the second-gen iPhone Air’s additional camera lens being a 0.5× ultra-wide, not a 3× or 4× telephoto: Ultimately, it’s the f...

Save $1,000 USD on the ZEISS Milvus 100mm f/2M ZE Macro Lens for Canon EF

The ZEISS Milvus 100mm f/2M ZE Macro Lens for Canon EF is on sale for $918 USD, which is a big discount of $1,000 USD. The Canon EF-mount Milvus 100mm f/2M ZE features a floating e...

Classic Camera Revival – Episode 225 | Lens Tetralogy I – Ultra-Wides

We’re finally doing it, a full set of four episodes, a “tetralogy” all about lenses. In this first part, we’re covering ultra-wide lenses. To help keep things ultra-wide, we’re usi...

The Most Underappreciated Trend in Lens Design Right Now

For roughly two decades, the standard zoom lens started at 24mm. Before that, it started at 28mm or even 35mm. The 24-70mm f/2.8 became the default in the early 2000s and stayed th...