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Roger Cicala

A Spider and His Web…Inside a Lens?

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Roger Cicala, owner of LensRentals.com. We spend a lot of time here at Lensrentals getting dust out of lenses. Dust doesn’t affect an image, except in very rare circumstances, but people want their rental lenses to look nice and clean inside and

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The Petzval Lens: A New Old Lens

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Roger Cicala and Aaron Closz of LensRentals.com Like a lot of photo history buffs, Ive been quite excited about Lomographys new iteration of the Petzval lens in 85mm focal length. For those of you who don’t know about the Petzval lens, I

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The Cynic’s Photography Dictionary

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Roger Cicala at LensRentals.com Picture – A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three. Ambrose Bierce Im a fan of the satirical and cynical definitions of Ambrose Bierce, first written as a daily newspaper column and later collected in The

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Party Like It’s 1995! A Look at the First DSLR’s

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Roger Cicala from LensRentals.com I doubt any of you remember it, but 1995 was the coming out party for Digital SLRs. There had been digital cameras before then. There had even been digital SLR cameras of a sort modified cameras tethered to

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The A7R Breakdown: A Look Inside the Sony’s Mirrorless Camera

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Roger Cicala, owner at LensRentals.com The usual warnings apply: Do not try this at home. This post was made by semi-trained, semi-professional repair technicians who sort of know what theyre doing. The following blog post contains graphic images of the inside of

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Comparing the Sigma and Canon 50mm to the Zeiss 55mm

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Roger Cicala of LensRentals.com I suspect Ill never be on any manufacturers early review copy list for new lenses. There are already plenty of good early lab reviews on the eagerly awaited Sigma 50mm f/1.4 Art lens our there. So when we

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