Gear

What Camera Gear is at the Top of Our Staff’s Wish Lists?

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The CP team picks the piece of camera gear they most want to use, from cameras and lenses to films and more.

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Wrist Assured – The 21 Best Wrist Straps for 2021 

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With his usual thoroughness, Cheyenne lists 21 great, handmade, artisan-crafted wrist straps for your vintage or modern camera.

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Reverse Lens Macro Photography – Intro and How To Guide

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Hemant offers quick tips and techniques for shooting extremely close macro photographs without buying any new gear at all!

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KEKS EM-01 Light Meter Review

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James reviews the KEKS EM-01, a compact and elegant shoe-mounted light meter that’s especially useful for classic camera shooters.

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Ruggard Electronic Dry Cabinet Review – Fight the Fungus

1800 1013 James Tocchio

Control humidity and save your gear from fungus with the Ruggard Electronic Dry Cabinet. Here’s James’ in-depth review of the EDC-80L.

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We Review Negative Lab Pro and Interview its Creator, Nate Johnson

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Negative Lab Pro is a Lightroom plugin that simplifies the conversion of raw film scans into digitized files. We review and interview NLP’s creator here.

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Check Out These Amazing Items from Flints Auctions’ October 18th Auction of Fine Photographica

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We highlight a small selection of special lots from the upcoming Flints Auctions October 18th, 2019 catalog of Fine Photographica.

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Watameter Super – The Rolls Royce of Rangefinders

1871 1052 Cheyenne Morrison

A brief history and review of the Watameter accessory rangefinder, a classic device for measuring distance with a camera.

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Negative Supply Film Carrier MK1 Kickstarter Launches Today

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Negative Supply announces the Kickstarter for their Film Carrier MK 1, a new solution for scanning and digitizing film with your DSLR or mirror-less camera.

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Camera Straps for People Who Aren’t Into Leather

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It’s almost a cliché – your well-brassed camera must wear an equally weathered artisanal strap, usually leather. Venture onto any fashionable camera site these days and we’ll no doubt find such a leather strap attached…

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Plustek OpticFilm 120 Scanner Review – Premium Scans, but at What Cost?

3000 1687 Dustin Vaughn-Luma

By the time I’d tested the Plustek OpticFilm 120 scanner, I’d tried plenty of scanners and was pretty worn out. Let’s face it – scanning sucks. It’s time consuming, and confers the same level of enjoyment…

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Moshi Arcus Multifunctional Backpack – a Camera Bag Worth 1,000 Words

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The Moshi Arcus Multifunctional Backpack is pretty damn nice, and I say that as a guy who detests writing or talking about camera bags. Further proof that fate is unfailingly cruel, I get an email…

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CAMERADACTYL is a 3D Printed 4 x 5 Field Camera, Now on Kickstarter

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I was contacted yesterday by a man named Ethan, who sent a link to his just-launched Kickstarter. CAMERADACTYL, named such because, as Ethan puts it, “I like cameras, dinosaurs, and all the real word dot…

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Need an Affordable and Capable Light Meter? Try The Sekonic Flashmate L-308s

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Nothing is more important in photography than light. By that measure, good photography must accurately measure the light on its subject. Nearly all new digital cameras come with a built in light meter coupled to…

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