November and December 2018's News
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Mirrorless vs DSLR Nikon vs Canon vs Sony Full-Frame Mirrorless
Canon: EOS R 1DX II 5DS/R 5D Mk IV 6D II 7D II 80D 77D SL2 T6 Flash Lenses
Nikon: Z7 Z6 D5 D850 D810 D750 D610 D500 D7500 D5600 D3500 D3400 Lenses
Sony: A9 A7R III A7 III A7RII A7SII A7II A7 A6500 A6400 A6000 RX10 IV RX100/6 RX100V Lenses
Fujifilm: X-T3 X-T2 X-Pro2 X100F Film Lenses
LEICA: M10D M10P M10 M240 M-E M9P M9T M9 M7 M6/TTL CLE M3 IIIf IIIa Lenses
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28 December 2018, Friday
NEW: Moment 18mm non-distorting ultrawide conversion lens for iPhones & more!
I got one of these for Christmas. It's a blast, also working for great 400º panoramas and duplicating the view of my HASSELBLAD SWC in the iPhone's square mode. This lens works on most phones.
23 December 2018, Sunday
Space Bar Trick
My son just taught me this one: if you have an iPad without force touch, simply hold your finger on the space bar for a moment, and voilà!, you now can move your finger around to move the cursor around your text. (If you have force touch, just press hard on the keyboard to get the cursor immediately.)
This may also work on non force-touch iPhones with newer firmware; I haven't tried it.
21 December 2018, Friday
NEW: Photos from Yosemite and the Eastern Sierra.
Here are snaps from the three hottest new cameras that came out this fall: my Nikon Z7, iPhone Xs Max and Canon EOS R. Which do you think takes the best pictures?
Artists make pictures, not cameras, so all the pictures pretty much look the same. Don't tell anyone, but automatic facial recognition on my Nikon Z7 is so bad that it always picks the wrong face, so for my kids' Christmas parties at school, I brought my iPhone Xs Max instead which takes sharper pictures when you have several faces in the same picture. My Z7 keeps auto-selecting the wrong faces, while my iPhone and Sonys and Fuji X100F always pick the right ones. I'm unsure if the Z7 is simply second-rate in face detection (it requires manual input to select which face to use, not acceptable photographing wiggly kids) while other brands do a great job of just nailing focus on the correct faces.
18 December 2018, Tuesday
Red Maple, 2:14PM, 14 December 2018. iPhone Xs Max 6mm tele camera, f/2.4 at 1/489 at ISO 16, Snapseed. bigger or full-resolution.
Here's a snap from my iPhone Xs Max. I knock out shots like this in seconds, shooting and editing with just one finger.
I'm working on a review, too, but for now you can see more iPhone snaps at Ken Rockwell's Instagram page. I usually post snaps from iPhone on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and post shots from big cameras here. It's all a matter of what happens on iPhone stays on iPhone, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and what happens in my studio on my Mac Pro goes on this website. Studio time is a premium and I rarely have the luxury of messing around on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram when I can be using my Mac for serious work. I spend most of my time in the field and very little in front of a computer.
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17 December 2018, Monday
Nikon Z7 Snaps
I'm still working on my Yosemite images. For now these are snaps from this weekend when I saw this odd car under magenta sunset light:
Mercedes AMG GLE 63S Coupe, 14 December 2018, 4:51 PM. Nikon Z7, Nikon 24-70mm f/4 Z set to 49mm, f/4 hand-held at 1/8 at Auto ISO 250, Perfectly Clear. bigger, full-resolution file or camera-original unprocessed © JPG file.
Mercedes AMG GLE 63S Coupe, 14 December 2018, 4:52 PM. Nikon Z7, Nikon 24-70mm f/4 Z set to 52mm, f/4 hand-held at 1/8 at Auto ISO 280, Perfectly Clear. bigger, full-resolution file or camera-original unprocessed © JPG file.
The brightness range was enormous from the lit ultragon headlights to the reflections on the car and all the way down to the shadows under the car, shot 10 minutes after sunset. Look at the dark muck in the original JPGs and you'll see how I was able to get the details I wanted out of the shadows.
No need for raw or HDR; I shot as JPG as always. I exposed on the dark side to protect the highlights, which is exactly how the Z7 shot it automatically. I used the Perfectly Clear plug-in in Photoshop CS6 on my Mac Pro to bring up all the dark areas later. Perfectly Clear does the best job of bringing up the shadows without blowing the highlights, and usually does it in one click. For me, time is money.
JPG files usually have essentially the same shadow dynamic range as raw files since JPG files use more advanced logarithmic and gamma-corrected Z-axis data while raw needs extra bits to do the same thing as raw uses only simpler linear Z-axis data.
In English, so long as you don't blow your highlights, you usually can pull everything you need out of shadows from JPGs and save yourself the hassle of raw. I never shoot raw.
Also notice how I easily get sharp 45MP images at reasonable ISOs hand-held at 1/8 of a second with the Z7's great VR, no tripods needed!
Orange and Blue, 16 December 2018, 12:16 PM. Nikon Z7, Nikon 24-70mm f/4 Z set to 70mm, f/4 hand-held at 1/8 at Auto ISO 100, as shot. bigger or camera-original © JPG file.
14 December 2018, Friday
Raw file color rendition
A reader asks about the color rendition of cameras when shot as raw. Obvious shot as JPG each camera does certain specific things to colors which are important and I address, but what about when shooting raw? Why don't I spend time on that?
Easy: because raw files have no colors.
Colors aren’t created until rendered from the raw data in software, or when rendered as a JPG in-camera with the same process. Raw data turns into colors only through complex, secret and proprietary processes and algorithms unique to each camera brand. Not only do sensors have different characteristic H&D (Hurter & Driffield) curves, they all have very different color filter layers. Once you get the analog signals from the sensor (sensors are analog, not digital until you digitize their outputs), the camera then has to digitize them. Once digitized you can store that raw data with whatever mild processing the camera may add, and then when rendered into a visible image either in software or in-camera as a JPG, the secret sauce of transfer functions, look-up tables and color matrices come into play which give each image its colors. Raw data has no color until it's rendered; you can't see raw data. "Raw image" is a misnomer; it's not an image until rendered.
Here's the catch: while camera-makers' software often applies the same secret sauce to the raw data as the cameras do in-camera to make JPGs (in which case we're back to square one: just look at the camera's own JPGs), as soon as you use Adobe or Photo Mechanic or Bibble or Spong or Apple or any of a zillion different pieces of software to render your raw data, the colors come out different.
There is no reasonable way to speak about a particular camera's color rendition with raw files, because the only way to speak to that is to speak about the camera's rendition when rendered with a particular kind of software, and every piece of software does it differently. There are so many very different pieces of software that this would be futile - and software may change as its updated.
This is why I don't try to open Pandora's box of trying to make sense of all the permutations of color rendition when shooting raw files and opening them in various pieces of software.
Fujifilm Sale: Each Includes a $400 or $500 Gift Card!
Fujifilm X-H1 body & $400 gift card: $1,649!
Fujifilm X-H1, Vertical Power Grip & $500 gift card: $1,949!
12 December 2018, Wednesday
Christmas Deals
$130 off Techart PRO LEICA M Lens to Sony E-Mount Camera Autofocusing Adapter. This takes your LEICA M lenses and autofocuses them on your Sony! This adapter turns your manual-focus über optik lenses into autofocus! Insane! (deal ends tonight at midnight NYC time.)
Up to $300 off on Nikon Lenses.
$100 off Apple HomePod Speaker in black and in white. Limited quanity.
Half-off Senal SMH-1200 headphones (fancier version of the SMH-1000 I've reviewed. Deal ends tonight at midnight NYC time.)
All B&H Christmas deals - updated daily.
B&H Deal Zone - up to 80% off!
07 December 1941, Pearl Harbor
Sale: 10% off almost everything at eBay.
Today only. Use coupon code PHLDAYTEN at checkout. Ends 3AM NYC time Saturday morning.
06 December 2018, Thursday
In-Stock: Canon EF 400mm f/2.8L IS III USM. World's lightest 400/2.8.
Less than half-price: Benro GA158FB1 GoClassic Aluminum Tripod wB1 Ball Head! expires midnight tonight NYC time.
Rokinon 3-Lens kit for Sony E: $890 off.
05 December 2018, Wednesday
Half-off Fuji X-A3!!!
The X-A3 is a great Fuji system camera, but it lacks any sort of viewfinder so you're shooting it at arm's length like an iPhone - thus the super discount price, including a lens! Picture quality is the same as all the other Fuji cameras.
03 December 2018, Monday
Nikon 500mm f/5.6 PF.
NEW: Nikon 500mm f/5.6 PF Review.
01 December 2018, Saturday
Sony
Sony A9 w/ free card & bag for $1,005 off the price of the camera alone! Also at Adorama, at Amazon, and at Crutchfield.
Sony A7R III for $400 off! Also at Adorama, at Amazon, and at Crutchfield.
Canon
80D, 18-135mm & more for just $1,299!
80D, 18-135mm, mic and more as a video kit for $650 off: $1,399!
80D & much more for $200 off - just $999!
80D, 18-55mm & more for $200 off - just $1,049!
Fuji
Fuji XT-2 with free card & bag for over $500 off the price of the camera alone!
Panasonic
SANTA SPECIAL: G7. 14-42mm, case, card & more: $498! Less than Black Friday!!!
Lumix DH5 with free card, battery & bag for over $500 off the price of the camera alone: $1,498!
30 November 2018, Friday
Nikon Comes Home!
2018 Nikon Z7 with 1956 W-NIKKOR•C 3.5cm f/1.8. bigger.
NEW: Adapted Rangefinder Lenses on Nikon Mirrorless.
YES! I can use my original 1940s, 1950s and 1960s Nikon Rangefinder lenses on my Z7! For the first time I can shoot Nikon's original mirrorless lenses on Nikon digital cameras rather than my S-series rangefinder cameras..
It turns out that they work much better on Nikon than they do on Sony or Canon. I have none of the huge exposure and white balance errors I get on Sony and Canon, and I get good results with ultrawide rangefinder lenses I can't get on Sony, and holy cow, even goggled LEICA lenses mount just fine as Nikon's mount turns the other way to the grip doesn't interfere. Yahoo!
My 1956 W-NIKKOR•C 3.5cm f/1.8 uses rare-Earth Lanthanum glass, which is radioactive! My lens still measures 0.1 mR (1 µSv) per hour with it sitting on my Geiger counter.
DEAL: Gray-Market Canon EOS R for $400 off.
For $400 less you're taking the chance that you have no warranty support or potential for firmware upgrades. More at Gray Market. Feeling lucky? Save $400.
27 November 2018, Tuesday
Deals
Eneloop 8-AA + 4-AA & Charger kit: $35!
$20 off, but only until midnight Tuesday, NYC time. Eneloops are the best power source for flashes and just about anything that runs on AAs and AAAs. They are especially good for flash because of their almost unlimited instantaneous power output ideal for recycling flash, and also because they hold their charge for years unused.
Apple Watch 38mm Series 3 w/GPS & Cellular, Space Gray Aluminum: $264 ($115 off)!
SanDisk 64GB 90 MB/s Extreme UHS-I SDXC Card: $19.99 ($10 off).
CRAZY $449 outfit!!!: Rebel T6, 18-55 IS, 70-300mm III non-IS, card, bag, filters & more - just $399 for everything!!! Santa take note: this is a complete outfit great for every good girl and boy. This setup can keep a fledgling photo bug happy for years.
NEW: AlienBoard Hoverboard review.
My kids wrote, directed, acted, shot, edited and published this on Ryan's YouTube channel. Good job, kids!
26 November 2018: Cyber Week Deals!
CRAZY $449 outfit!!!: Rebel T6, 18-55 IS, 70-300mm III non-IS, card, bag, filters & more - just $399 for everything!!! Santa take note: this is a complete outfit great for every good girl and boy. This setup can keep a fledgling photo bug happy for years.
All B&H Cyber Week Specials
Amazon's Cyber Week Deals, including the Alexa Echo Dot for $19.99
Adorama's Cyber Week Deals
Even more of Adorama's Cyber Week Deals
All Deal Zone Deals at B&H
SANTA'S SPECIALS below are Santa's (and Hanukkah Hank's) suggestions for super deals on starter kits for gift-giving.
Apple
$350 off Apple Watch Series 3 (GPS + Cellular) 42mm Stainless Steel w/Milanese band: $429!
Think Tank Bags
50% off Airport Advantage Plus and others at 40% off.
Nikon
SANTA SPECIAL: Nikon D5600, 18-55 VR AFP, 70-300 non-VR AFP & more: $697!!! also at B&H.
D750, free grip, battery & more for $600 off the price of the body alone! This is a screaming deal on Nikon's best buy in full frame. The D600 and D610 have crappy autofocus in the dark, while the D750 still offers state-of-the-art performance in a compact package with fast handling. It's been out a few years and so it's selling at a huge discount. I wouldn't wait for a new version, which if Nikon's other DSLRs offer any clue, simply go up in price while adding Bluetooth and removing compatibility with older full-frame lenses and lowering flash power - no thanks!
D5600 & 18-55mm with free card & bag for $150 off the price of camera & lens alone.
10-20mm DX with filter & free goodies for just $287 - Nikon's best ultrawide deal ever!
10-20mm DX & 40mm macro DX for just $497 - with filter & free goodies!
14-24mm FX for $200 off. Also at Adorama, who's throwing in a free tripod for the same price!!!
18-300mm DX w/filters & free goodies for $697.
24-70mm f/2.8 for $100 off with a free tripod!
50mm f/1.4G FX with filters & free goodies for just $377.
85mm f/1.8G FX with filters & free goodies for just $437! Another fantastic lens at a bargain price.
105mm f/2.8 VR FX Macro for just $822, with free filters & more goodies!
Sony
SANTA SPECIAL: Sony A6000, 16-50mm PZ, 55-210mm & more: $598!!! also at Adorama.
I got my own mom a Sony A6000; it's the best buy in mirrorless. It's a state-of-the-art 24MP, 11 FPS APS-C camera, and since Sony has other models with a few extra features for which it charges far more, you can get the superb A6000 for a song - and for the next couple of days even get an extra telephoto lens and more, free, with the kit. See All Sony Camera Compared for the few minor features missing from the A6000 which few people will miss. Otherwise, the A6000 looks, feels and handles pretty much exactly like the A7RIII that sells for about eight times as much.
Sony A7 II, 28-70mm & More: Just $998!!! (also at B&H and at Crutchfield.)
Wow! Sony Full-Frame with a lens and more goodies for just under a grand!
See All Sony Cameras Compared and my reviews of the A7II and 28-70mm for details, but what you need to know is that the AF system of the A7II is awesome, with great Face ID and eye AF and it runs at 5 FPS with full auto focus and exposure.
What the A7II doesn't do that the A7 III does are minor things that are important to me, but might not be for you, like being able to set the slowest shutter speed in Auto ISO, Silent shooting, no 4K and much less battery life than the newer cameras, but for this cheap, how much do you care? The A7II weighs 2 oz. (50g) less than the A7 III.
Sony A7 II, card & case (no lens): $899
Canon
5D Mk IV
5D Mk IV, free grip & more for $500 off the price of the body alone! Also at Adorama, $797 off total.
5D Mk IV w/24-70/4L IS, grip & more for $947 off!
5D Mk IV w/24-105 IS USM, grip & more for $997 off!
5D Mk IV with Canon Log, grip & more for $797 off!
5D Mark IV w/Grip & Printer (fat rebate makes printer better than free)
5D Mark IV w/24-70mm, Grip & Printer (fat rebate means printer is better than free)
5D Mark IV w/24-105mm, Grip & Printer (fat rebate makes printer better than free)
6D Mk II
6D Mark II w/Grip & PRO-100 Printer (very fat rebate on printer)
6D Mark II w/24-105mm, Grip & PRO-100 Printer (very fat rebate on printer)
6D Mark II w/Grip, 24-105mm f/4L II & PRO-100 Printer (very fat rebate on printer)
6D Mk II, grip & much, much more for $709 off - just $1,299!
6D Mk II, 24-105 IS STM, grip & more for $909 off - just $1,699!
6D Mk II w/24-105L, grip & much more for $909 off - just $2,199!
Rebel
Rebel SL2 & free card for $449. Cheaper than Black Friday!!!
SANTA SPECIAL: Rebel T6, 18-55 IS, 70-300mm III non-IS, card, bag, filters & more - just $399 for everything!!! Santa take note: this is a complete outfit great for every good girl and boy. This setup can keep a fledgling photo bug happy for years.
SANTA SPECIAL: Rebel T6, 18-135mm STM, 70-300mm III non-IS, bag, tripod. card, mic & more: $799
Canon Lenses
EF 16-35mm f/2.8 L III, filters & more for $300 off the price of just the lens!
EF 17-40mm f/4L for just $599! Full-frame ultrawide. I think I paid about $1,000 for mine.
EF 17-40mm f/4L & 50mm f/1.4 - both for $799! Less than Black Friday!
EF 28mm f/1.8 full-frame & free goodies: $459.
EF 50mm f/1.2L, filters & free goodies for just $1,269! And I thought I got a steal when I pair $1,799 for mine without the goodies a few years ago! This is the best 50mm DSLR lens ever made.
EF 50mm f/1.4 just $299 with filters & free goodies!
EF-S 60mm Macro with loads of free goodies: just $349!
EF 70-200mm f/4L USM for just $519! Also at Adorama with free filters and other goodies! This is a bargain, but it's the non-IS version which is ultra sharp, but you might want to use a tripod with it.
EF 85mm f/1.8 just $299 with filters & free goodies! One of the world's best lenses, at an ultra-bargain price.
EF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM Macro - just $699 with filters & free goodies!
EF 100-400mm IS L II with free tripod - just $1,799! I paid $2,200 for mine, and LOVE it! It is the world's best telephoto zoom. I haven't bothered with a 70-200 for years; this 100-400 replaces a 70-200 and goes to 400mm and focuses closer, replacing my macro, too!
Fuji
Fuji X-T20 w/18-55mm f/2.8-4, filters, case, card & more! $999
Sigma
Sigma 35mm f/1.4 for Canon EF for $100 off.
Sigma 70-200/2.8 for $320 off.
Sigma 105mm f/2.8 Macro for $400 off.
21 November 2018, Wednesday
NEW: LEICA D-Lux 7.
Apple Watch Series 4 in gold with a Milanese band.
NEW: Who Needs an Apple Watch.
Just like the Internet which no one understood in the early 1990s but without which today much of the world couldn't survive, the Apple Watch turns out to be much more amazing than I had ever thought.
Here are just a few kinds of people who can greatly benefit from all we can do with an Apple Watch.
20 November 2018, Tuesday
Sigma 60-600mm f/4.5-6.3 DG OS HSM Sports.
NEW: Sigma 60-600mm Review.
08 November 2018, Thursday
Nikon D850 In-Stock at B&H, at Adorama and at Amazon.
Wow! Looks like after over a year Nikon has filled most of our backorders and it's in stock, at least as of this writing, at B&H, Adorama and Amazon for the first time in history.
02 November 2018, Friday
Gotta love my Z7
Katie at Hula Camp. Nikon Z7 held at knee height with flippy screen, Nikon Z 24-70mm f/4 at 24mm, Nikon SB-400 flash, f/11 at 1/160 at Auto ISO 100, shade white balance to make it warm and orange, as shot. bigger.
I just shot my first event with my Z7. (I had it in Yosemite for a week last month for landscape shooting). I hadn't realized how great the flippy screen would be. I held the camera down at my knees and looked up, which puts Katie's head up in the clouds and pulls it out of the mess of other kids and the ground where it would be if I was shooting with a DSLR held to my face.
HINT: Mirrorless takes a second to turn on or wake from sleep, which can seem like a long time if you don't tap the shutter until you have already brought your camera to your eye while walking around at an event. No worries, I make a point of tapping the shutter to wake my Z7 every time before I bring it to my eye and thus it's always ready to go. For the first time in 15 years since we all went DSLRs we now have to learn new tricks with completely different kinds of cameras, and this is one of them.
More good news: shooting an event like this, I get about 1,500 shots on a charge on my Z7. At an event like this I'm shooting all the time and spending little time setting menus or looking at playback.
A beauty of the Z7 is that the rear LCD/EVF switch is magic; the rear LCD pops on when I pull my Z7 from my face and just works. Unlike a DSLR in Live View, the Z7 works fast, with no time wasted swapping modes.
My favorite SB-400 flash is the ultimate mirrorless flash. Even more than it was on DSLRs, it's tiny as you want on mirrorless, and it's powerful and recycles fast and the Z7 balances it for fill perfectly. The SB400 was discontinued; no worry, you can get them on eBay for under $100 (see How to Win at eBay) and they are so much better for mirrorless than today's bigger, crummier and more expensive SB-300 and SB-500. The SB300 is bigger, junkier, lower powered and takes too long to recycle from it's pathetic AAA cells, and the SB500 is too darn big and costs more than twice as much for about the same performance as the tiny SB400.
What Was New in:
October 2018: Loads of Canon and Nikon mirrorless revelations, First Chinese Nikon Z adapters, Canon EOS R Review, Canon EOS R User's Guide, Wimberley Gimbal Tripod Head Review, Sony 400mm f/2.8 Review, How to Photograph Air Shows, LEICA M10-D.
August & September 2018: Nikon vs Canon vs Sony Full Frame, Mirrorless vs DSLR, Do You Really Need Two Card Slots, Canon EOS-R Review, Canon EF to RF Lens Adapters, Canon RF 24-105mm Review, Canon RF 28-70mm f/2 L, Canon RF 50mm f/1.2 Review, Canon RF 35mm f/1.8 MACRO IS STM, Canon 70-200mm f/4L IS II Review, Canon EF400mm f/2.8L IS III, Canon EF 600mm f/4L IS II USM, Canon EF-M 32mm f/1.4 STM, Canon 580EX II Review, Canon 580EX II User's Guide, Sony 24mm f/1.4, Sony RX100 Mark 6 Review, Sony RX100 Mk VI User's Guide, Nikon's full-frame mirrorless system, Nikon Z7, Nikon Z6, Nikon Z6 vs. Z7, Nikon FTZ Lens Adapter, Nikon Z 24-70mm f/4, Nikon Z 35mm f/1.8, Nikon Z 50mm f/1.8, Nikon 500mm f/5.6 PF, Nikon D3500, LEICA M10-P, iPhone Xs Max Bokeh vs Full-Frame Professional Cameras, Tokina "Opera" 50mm f/1.4, Tamron 15-30mm f/2.8 G2, Fuji XT-3.
June & July 2018: Nikon Mirrorless hinted at, Fuji 8-16mm f/2.8, Fuji 200mm f/2, Fuji XF10, Sony RX100VA, Nikon P1000, Tamron 100‑400mm Review, best 80-400 and 100-400mm zooms compared, How to Win Photo Contests, Tamron 18-400mm review, Sony 400mm f/2.8, Images of Yosemite in Springtime, Kodak Medalist II Review, Canon 70‑200mm f/4L IS II, Canon 70‑200mm f/2.8 L IS III and my Sony RX100 Mark VI review.
May 2018: Marc Silber's Secrets to Creating Amazing Photos, Sigma 105mm f/1.4, Fuji X-T100, Tamron 15-30mm f/2.8 IS/VR Review, beyerdynamic Amiron Home Review, Sigma 70mm Full-Frame Macro Art Lens, Nikon D1 High ISO Samples, Vello MB-D18 (BG-N19) Grip Review, Sunpak RD2000 Review, Small Flashes Compared.
April 2018: Irix 11mm f/4 Review,Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8, Canon 85mm f/1.4 L IS Review,Tamron 70-200mm f/2.8 VR/IS Review, Best 70-200mm f/2.8 Lenses Compared, Tamron 24-70mm f/2.8 VR/IS Review, Best 24-105mm Lenses Compared, MindShift 18L Backpack, Fuji GF 250mm f/4, Fuji GF 1.4X TC WR Teleconverter, Fuji MCEX-45G WR Macro Extension Tube, Fuji MCEX-18G WR Macro Extension Tube, Sony RX10 Mk IV Review, Sony RX10 Mk IV User's Guide, beyerdynamic Aventho Wireless Review.
March 2018: Nikon 70-300mm AFP E FX Review, Nikon 28mm f/1.4 E FX Review, Nikon 10-20mm Review, Nikon D7500 Review.
February 2018: Sony A7 III, Yosemite Photos, Nikon 50mm f/1.8 Pancake-NIKKOR review, beyerdynamic DT1350 review, beyerdynamic DT240 review, Canon SL2 review.
Janaury 2018: Nikon 180-400mm, Canon 6D Mk II review, Canon 18-135mm USM review, Fuji X-A5, Sony 18-135mm.
December 2017: Canon 35mm f/2.8 Macro review, Sony A7R III review, Sony A7R III user's guide, Sony FE 24-105mm f/4 G OSS review, Sony FE 100mm STF G OSS review.
November 2017: Sony 50/2.8 Macro Review, Sony 90/2.8 Macro Review, LEICA CL, Sony 70-300mm G Review, Panasonic G9, iPhone X Review, How to Make Time Exposures with iPhone, 1X Photo Contest, Tamron 100-400mm.
October 2017: Nikon D850 review, Nikon D850 user's guide, Sony A7R III, Sony 24-105mm G, Sony 85/1.8 review, Canon G1X Mk III.
June, July, August and September 2017: Canon 6D Mk II, Canon SL-2, Canon 85/1.4L, Canon TS-E 50/2.8, 90/2.8 & 135/4, Nikon D850, Nikon 70-300 VR DX AF-P, Nikon 28/1.4E, Metabones Mk V Canon EF -> Sony E-mount adapter.
May 2017: Nikon 10-20mm DX VR, Nikon 8-15mm FX Fisheye, Canon 77D Review, Canon Rebel T7i Review, Canon 18-55mm IS STM Review, Springtime in Yosemite, Irix 15mm f/2.4 Review, Sony 16-35/2.8 GM, Sony 12-24/4 G, Fuji X100F Review, Laowa 12mm Review, Olympus TG-5.
March & April 2017: Nikon D7500, Nikon 19mm PC-E review, Nikon D3400 review, Sony A7 Mk II review, Nikon D5600 review.
February 2017: Canon 77D, Canon Rebel T7i, Canon EOS M6, Sony 24-70/2.8 GM, Sony 85mm f/1.4 GM , Sony 70-200mm f/4 G OSS, Sony FE 100mm f/2.8 STF GM OSS, Sony FE 85mm f/1.8.
January 2017: LEICA M10, Fujifilm GFX 50S, Fujifilm X100F, Nikon D5600.
November & December 2016: Fuji X-A10.
September & October 2016: Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 FL, Nikon 19mm PC-E, Sony A6500, Sony RX100 Mk V, Sony Alpha 99 II, Canon EOS M5, Canon EF 70-300 IS II USM, Sony 50mm f/2.8 Macro.
July & August 2016: Canon 5D Mk IV, 16-35 IS II, 24-105 IS II, Nikon D3400, Nikon 105mm f/1.4, Fuji XT-2.
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If you've gotten your gear through one of my links or helped otherwise, you're family. It's great people like you who allow me to keep adding to this site full-time. Thanks!
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The biggest help is when you use any of these links when you get anything, regardless of the country in which you live. It costs you nothing, and is this site's, and thus my family's, biggest source of support. eBay is always a gamble, but all the other places always have the best prices and service, which is why I've used them since before this website existed. I recommend them all personally.
Thanks for reading!
Ken