I was “this close” to giving up on the Sony A1. The usual places from which I rent my equipment still hadn’t received it at the time of publishing this article. At other companies, it was never available. One of them even stopped responding to me after saying they could …
Editor’s note: the following article was written by Thomas Stirr, a very talented photographer based in Canada, and long-time collaborator. Thomas previously wrote articles for us on our old website mirrorlessons.com and more recently on this very website. Thomas is a great example of a person who makes the most …
Here we go again: a new firmware comes out, promising improvements in the autofocus department, and I’m back taking pictures of my favourite birds with the Panasonic G9, which at this point I believe is the mirrorless camera I’ve tested the most for this genre. Since its release in 2017, …
One of the reasons mirrorless cameras became popular was because you could adapt various lenses from other brands, including the premium Leica M series and the vast selection of DSLR glass. But cross-branding lenses designed for mirrorless bodies has been more difficult. The Chinese company Techart (the same people behind …
In a recent video published on our YouTube channel about using the Nikon Z50 and Z6 for birds in flight, some viewers asked me if I could try the new 70-200mm 2.8 and teleconverters for Z-mount. I had the chance to get my hands on the zoom lens and the …