All Shawn McCully wanted was a lens for his digital single-lens reflex camera. Little did he know, he was searching for the holy grail of amateur photography — and hoping to do it on the cheap. “I ...
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How to use manual focus – top 20 tips

Whether you have a manual focus-only lens or want to improve your manual focussing skills generally, we can help. Learn how ...
Three more of Zeiss's Classic line of lenses are getting the Milvus overhaul. Images, and the devices that capture them, are my focus. I've covered cameras at PCMag for the past 14 years, which has ...
Images, and the devices that capture them, are my focus. I've covered cameras at PCMag for the past 14 years, which has given me a front row seat for the changeover from DSLRs to mirrorless cameras, ...
I switch the mode on my camera from autofocus to manual focus, and just like that, I receive the freedom to completely and single-handedly compose the perfect image — if perfection did exist. There ...
Depth of field has always been a preoccupation for photographers. Or it used to be. These days we seem to be fixed on the shallowest depth of field possible in pursuit of that great god of bokeh, but ...
Hi,<BR><BR>thinking about getting a Canon EOS dslr body to use with some old pentax/leica R manual focus primes I have lying around (with adapters). Just wondering what I get extra for a 30d/40d as ...