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How to Read MTF Charts

When my article on field curvature was published a while ago, where I talked about how one could do a quick analysis of lens MTF data and determine if it exhibits any field curvature, some of our readers expressed interest in understanding how to read MTF charts. Since we talk...

Wedding Photography Tips: Synchronize Your Cameras

Due to popular demand, we are starting our new series of articles on commercial wedding photography. Since I have been helping out my wife with her wedding business, being a second shooter during weddings and engagement sessions, I have been writing down some helpful tips, which I am planning to...

Understanding Histograms in Photography

Histograms can be found in almost any modern image editing software. It is my guess that most current digital cameras, including some compacts, can display histograms as well - some even live as you shoot using your LCD screen. Such persistent inclusion would suggest that histograms are quite important. Even...

Nikon 70-200mm f/4G VR Review

Nikon has a long history of making professional 70-80 to 200mm focal length zoom lenses, but aside from the very old 70-210 f/4 AI-S and AF lenses, it has never had an affordable and lightweight constant aperture f/4 model in its line. With its arch-rival Canon making a 70-200mm f/4L...

Winter Photography Tips

Winter can be a very beautiful time of the year, especially if you live in a region that gets plenty of snow. We all know how children love the snow - there are endless possibilities for having fun and cold weather is usually not enough to stop them from enjoying...

Nikon NIKKOR 50mm f/1.2 Ai-S

High-performance compact and lightweight manual focus lens features a fast f/1.2 aperture.

Olympus OM-D E-M5 Review

The Olympus OM-D E-M5 mirrorless camera was released on February 7, 2012 right before the CP+ Camera and Photo Imaging show in Japan. Along with the camera, Olympus also released two lenses for the Micro Four Thirds mount - the 75mm f/1.8 and the 60mm f/2.8 Macro. The E-M5 generated...

What is Field Curvature?

Field Curvature, also known as "curvature of field" or "Petzval field curvature", is a common optical problem that causes a flat object to appear sharp only in a certain part(s) of the frame, instead of being uniformly sharp across the frame. This happens due to the curved nature of optical...

Nikon 18-300mm VR Review

This is an in-depth review of the Nikon 18-300mm f/3.5-5.6G DX ED VR lens that was released in June of 2012 along with the Nikon 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5G ED VR lens. Thanks to the popular demand of the 18-200mm and the full-frame Nikon 28-300mm VR lenses, Nikon decided to add another...

Nikon D600 and D610 for Sports Photography

When the Nikon D600 and D610 were announced, most of us got very excited about the new camera. Nasim's review of the D600 and his D610 follow-up answered a lot of my questions, but I was still curious about the the autofocus performance of these cameras with sports. There are...