Review: Nikon 50mm f/1.8G
Specs and pricing info (buy here) OK, coming off the heels of a review of the $6,000 200mm f/2, I figured it was time to look at something a little more practical, a little lighter, a little cheaper,...
View ArticleCleaning House
I’m good at being uncomfortable, so I can’t stop changing all the time… I like to keep my work evolving, which means I go through a lot of equipment, and I leave a lot more in my wake behind me. This...
View ArticleEquipment isn’t Everything (It’s the Vision Thing)
You hang around photographers enough, and you hear the same debates and tropes and ideas pop up over and over again. Probably the most common is a variation of “It’s the photographer, not the...
View ArticleReview: Sigma 150mm f/2.8 OS
Specs and Purchasing Info: (Nikon) (Canon) (Sony) (Pentax) (Sigma) During the season, I shoot essentially constantly — I’m in the middle of a stretch of 21 days with shoots on 20 of them, sometimes...
View ArticleQuick Review: Nikon 40mm f/2.8 Micro DX
Specs and Pricing Info So much new camera gear comes out all the time that my first thought at any new release is “Could this possibly be useful to me?” If not, I tend to not pay it much attention —...
View ArticleReview: Hasselblad 100mm f/2.2 (and thoughts on Hasselbad H2F)
Pretty much any photographer I’ve ever met has “dream gear,” stuff they keep their eye on. When the Nikon D2X came out, I used a picture of it as my desktop background for months, just to keep me...
View ArticleReview: Sony NEX-5n
For my needs, at least, dSLRs have reached a tipping point. With the release of Canon 1D-X and Nikon having the still-astonishing D3s, the major workhorse companies are both now producing cameras as...
View ArticleReview: Sigma 12-24mm Mark II
Specs and Pricing info This summer, I looked at the gear I tended to use for weddings — never wider than 24mm, dominated by f/1.4 or f/1.2 primes — and said “Ok, let’s shake this up a bit.” So I chose...
View ArticleReview: LensAlign, Spyder LensCal and the importance of AF Fine Tune
Get your f/1.2 photos in perfect focus Cameras come with lots and lots of bells and whistles these days, and some of them seem a lot more useful than other. Built-in selective color mode? No thank...
View ArticleReview: Nikon J1 versus Fuji X10
Compact camera photos aren’t what they used to be. Taken with the Nikon J1 and kit lens. Specs and Purchase info: Nikon J1 Specs and Purchase info: Fuji X10 The compact world is in a bit of a stir...
View ArticleQuick Review: SB-910
Specs and purchasing info As a longtime Nikonian, it still seems a bit odd that Nikon is known as the “great high ISO camera company.” Back in my day, we had noisy ISO 800, and walked uphill both ways...
View ArticleOne from today, with the Canon 5D Mark III
I had the Canon 5D Mark III along with my D3s’s to play at Heather and Peter’s amazing wedding today. This moment was captured at ISO 12,800. I did apply noise reduction, but just to the chromatic...
View ArticleComing Soon: 5D Mark III Review
I’ve been a busy boy. — Camera: Canon 5D Mark III Lens: Canon 24mm f/1.4L II The post Coming Soon: 5D Mark III Review appeared first on Ryan Brenizer -- NYC Wedding Photographer. Storyteller, problem...
View ArticleA Nikon user’s review of the Canon 5D Mark III
Specs and purchasing info The 5D Mark III at 12,800 ISONote: I will keep updating this review as I get more information. I am shooting another wedding with the 5DIII tomorrow for example, and will be...
View Article(Provisional) Review: Fuji X-Pro 1
Specs and Pricing 35mm, f/1.4, 1/1700th, ISO 400 Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Fuji releases a delightful camera that’s not quite like anything else out there, but it comes with all sorts of...
View ArticleReview: Nikon D4
Specs and Purchasing InformationThe Nikon D4 has some big shoes to fill. Nikon’s professional line of cameras has been a benchmark since 1959, and it is the next iteration in a line that has seen both...
View ArticleD800 teaser: Ariana and Eric at the Metropolitan Club
To say that Ariana and Eric are a pretty cool couple is like saying that the Metropolitan Club — pretty much what you’d expect from a place built for J.P. Morgan to hang out in — is a pretty cool...
View ArticleNikon D800 review
Specs and purchasing informationMost new cameras are evolutionary. They push a few specs forward, make some tweaks, and hopefully make it a little easier to take photos that are a little better. But...
View ArticleReview: Olympus OM-D E-M5
E-M5 with Olympus 12mm f/2 This year, with the help of some sponsorships — B&H Photo in particular — I’ve had the opportunity to test pretty much every hot camera that’s come down the pike. I’ve...
View ArticleReview: Nikon 28mm f/1.8G
Specs and pricing info It was not all that long ago that Nikon prime users had few good options. There was a slew of old manual-focus glass, but if you wanted fast, wide lenses you were either stuck...
View ArticleSneak peek from the Nikon D600
I did a shoot with the new Nikon D600 today. Had a great time with it, and lots more to come very soon, but I can’t wait until my favorite RAW converters start supporting it. Luckily I use custom...
View ArticleQuick Review: Tokina 300mm f/6.3 for Micro 4/3ds
Generally a lot of the stuff I review is on the professional, end of the scale, high-performing but expensive. There’s a pretty good reason for that — during the season especially at least 98 percent...
View ArticleNikon D600 Review
I’ve tried every professional camera that came out in 2012, and I’ve never had people clamor for my review as much as with the Nikon D600. It’s clear that the attractive price point, including...
View ArticleReview: Nikon Df
45mm f/2.8 PC-E, ISO 100, 1/1000th The Nikon Df is sort of a strange camera to review … or at least a strange Nikon. In the DLSR era, Nikon has succeeded by trying to make their cameras as functional...
View ArticleReview: 200mm f/2 VR II (director’s cut)
If you have $6000 lying around, purchase the lens here My review of the exotic, awesome, Nikon 200mm f/2 VRII is up at B&H’s Web site! Thank you so much, guys, for letting me use this fantastic...
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