Photography

I recently had a bad case of fungus in a Sony kit lens. The fungus was between the two outermost lenses that are assembled together in a glued plastic case. I placed it in a cleaned vacuum box with enough rubbing alcohol to submerge it — I actually had to tilt the box to cover everything, so I should have added more. I first cleaned everything very thoroughly. I sucked all the air out of…

The EOS R3’s Eye Control system works on a similar principle to the one used in the late 90’s and early 2000s, but isn’t really trying to select individual, discrete AF points To me, Eye Control has always been some great ‘what if,’ that inevitably gets mentioned when camera geeks of a certain age spent too much time together. I went straight from a manual focus…

Last week, Canon launched its latest high-end photojournalist-focused mirrorless camera, the EOS R3. It is capable of firing up to 30 frames per second in electronic shutter mode — and the sound of it doing so is wild. Uploaded by Youtuber and photographer GengHui Tan, the short video above delivers exactly what is promised: the sound of the EOS R3 firing 30 frames per second for about four…

Canon has expanded its list of products that are in short supply to encompass both lenses it revealed this week and the newly-announced EOS R3. In a notice spotted by by Canon Rumors, Canon Japan has published an apology that now includes seventeen total products that “received more orders than expected” and will be in short supply globally. Below is the notice that was published on…