Macro photography is one of those interesting niches of photography that can sort of bleed over into almost every other niche of photography. You have wedding photographers needing macro detail shots of the wedding rings and reception details.
You have food and beverage photographers needing 1:1 images of the items they are shooting. Heck, you also have true macro enthusiast shooting insane shots of insects and other tiny objects. . thephoblographer.com
Want to get started in macro photography but don’t have much to spend? There are ways to jump into the niche using mostly the gear you already have (assuming you don’t have a dedicated macro lens). petapixel.com »
2019-08-27 18:24
Today, Canon is introducing a lineup of lenses that are surely doing something different from all the other options out there. The company is refreshing and introducing a number of new tilt-shift options--but these aren't just any tilt-shift lenses. thephoblographer.com »
2017-08-29 07:01
Fotodiox has announced a great new set of lens adapters for mirrorless cameras. The Fotodiox Pro DLX Stretch adapters allow for mounting third-party lenses onto a number of major camera mounts, as well as some awesome other features. petapixel.com »
2017-07-05 18:52
Fujifilm has launched the XF33mm f/1. 4 R LM WR lens for its X Series mirrorless digital cameras. The company bills the lens as a “next-generation” large-aperture prime lens. When converted to the crop-sensor size of the X Series cameras, the 33mm f/1.
We often refer to 50mm lens on a full frame as a "standard" lens because 50mm is fairly close to the perspective of the human eye. Using a 50mm lens on a camera with an APS-C sized sensor changes that perspective by about 1.
In addition to its two new lenses announced yesterday, the 200mm f/2 and the 8-16mm f/2. 8, Fujifilm has also revealed three upcoming lenses that are now on its roadmap: the 16mm f/2. 8, 16-80mm f/4 OIS, and 33mm f/1.
Portrait photography. Chances are, if you own a stand alone camera you are probably using it to take portraits, at least on occasion. So it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to say that you may be in the market for a good lens for just that purpose; portrait photography.
Fujifilm has an excellent reputation with their lenses, and overall their price to performance among other brand name lenses is up there with the best of them. they are so good, in fact, that many times there seems to be no reason to even purchase third-party lenses because the price to performance ratio won't be much, if any, better.
Fujifilm’s 23mm F2 R WR is a popular choice for many Fujifilm photographers looking to have a small, compact, and weather sealed 35mm field of view equivalent lens with fast and quiet autofocus. Many of these photographers are also likely portrait photographers, who have really as a community embraced the 35mm field of view for a variety of looks.
Photography is a wonderful thing; pick up any camera and any lens and with that you can capture the world, for just a moment, to be preserved as long as the medium which holds it survives. It is a timeless, though under appreciated, a gift to the future.