Keeping Your Glass in Peak Condition A wildlife photographer who had been working in the field for thirty years was once asked what single piece of advice he would give a younger photographer about equipment. He did not talk about focal lengths or camera bodies or autofocus systems. He said: store your lenses correctly, clean…
Common Lens Mistakes Beginners Make A photography instructor once described the first year of serious photography as ‘an expensive education in what not to buy.’ He was not being unkind. He was describing a pattern he had watched repeat itself in every cohort of students he had ever taught: enthusiastic beginners, armed with genuine passion…
What to Inspect, What to Avoid, and How to Buy With Confidence This is the post the entire series has been building toward. Over the previous nine posts, we have covered why the lens is the foundation of a camera kit, what focal length and aperture mean in practice, which lens types serve which photography,…