Canon cameras, lenses, and imaging technology.
You’re shooting a two-person interview. The director calls for a focus pull from the subject in the foreground to the person behind them, and suddenly the framing seems to zoom in a touch on its…
What Is a Tilt-Shift Lens? A tilt-shift lens is a specialist prime lens with two mechanical movements that ordinary lenses don't have. The front of the lens can tilt (angle relative to the sensor) and…
Every camera has a viewfinder, but not all viewfinders show you the same thing. A DSLR's optical viewfinder (OVF) shows the real world through glass, while a mirrorless camera's electronic viewfinder (EVF) shows a tiny,…
Look closely at the front of almost any modern lens and you'll see faint green, purple, or magenta reflections dancing on the glass. Those colours aren't decoration — they're the visible proof of lens coatings,…
Manufacturers love to tell you a lens is “razor sharp,” but marketing words are cheap. When optical engineers want to show what a lens can actually resolve, they reach for a single graph: the MTF…
Out of the box, nearly every camera focuses the same way: you press the shutter button halfway, the lens racks into focus, and a full press fires the shot. It works — until you need…
Stop a lens down to f/16 or f/22 chasing maximum depth of field, and there's a good chance the result comes back looking just a little soft — even with perfect focus on a sturdy…
Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you buy through them, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Ask any EOS R shooter which lens stays on their camera the most,…
Teleconverters are among the most misunderstood accessories in photography. For the price of a small tube of glass, a 1.4x or 2x converter can turn a 70–200mm zoom into a 100–280mm or 140–400mm lens—dramatically more…
Time-lapse photography compresses minutes, hours, or even days into a few seconds of video. A flower blooming, clouds racing across a valley, stars wheeling overhead — time-lapse turns the slow, invisible passage of time into…