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Author: Daniel English

March 11, 2025

125: Panasonic Lumix S1R II Mega Episode

This week, we go deep on the new Panasonic Lumix S1R II, covering the specs, test results, and how it stacks up against the competition. Is this Daniel’s next camera?

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March 4, 2025

124: Finding a Client Photo Editing Workflow

We explore ideas for editing client photos in Lightroom without combining those photos into our personal photo libraries. And to make things more challenging, Lucas wants to use his iPad (of course). Also, a recent event shoot gave us a chance to try out some new filming setups, including the Lumix S9 as a gimbal camera.

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February 25, 2025

123: Teleconverters, Lumix S9 Lenses, and the Smallest XF Lens

We’re talking all about lens topics today–our experiences with teleconverters, Lucas’ List of L-Mount Lenses for Lumix, the downsides of software lens corrections, and a tiny new X-mount lens that Viltrox recently released. 

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February 18, 2025

122: New Gear Day: Lumix S9 and Fuji 16-55

After an unexpectedly successful trip to the camera store, we’ve both got some new gear to talk about. Daniel ended up far deeper into L Mount than he ever imagined possible, and Lucas finally upgraded his standard zoom to the new Fuji 16-55 II. In this episode, we talk about the story of how this came about, and discuss our hands-on experiences with the new gear.

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February 11, 2025

121: Are Camcorders Still Worth Buying?

This episode is all about camcorders–are they relics of the past or still a good value? We reminisce about the camcorders we owned many years ago and take a look at some modern equivalents to see what we think.

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February 4, 2025

120: Leica and Pentax Brand Deep Dives

Finishing out our camera brand series from last year, we dig into two smaller, but still notable brands–Leica and Pentax. Also, Lucas bought a new lens for his lens, and we discovered more long telephoto primes that we missed in last week’s tier list episode.

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January 28, 2025

119: Tier List of Camera Lenses

We tier-rank each major camera lens type, from telephoto zooms to fisheyes. Along the way, we discover some surprising differences in which types of lenses we feel are better or worse. How do our rankings line up with yours?

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  • Our tier rankings:
    • S:
      • 85mm 1.4 prime
      • 70-200 2.8 fast telephoto zoom
    • A:
      • 50mm 1.8 “Nifty Fifty”
      • 24-70 2.8 (fast standard zoom)
      • Canon 24-105 f/4 Mark II L
    • B: 
      • 24-105 f/4 ,18-80 f/4
      • Ultrawide primes
      • 14-24 (15-30, 8-16, etc) UW 2.8 zoom
      • 24mm 1.4 prime
      • 35mm 1.4 prime
      • Pancake prime (24, 27, or 35)
      • 500 f/5.6
      • 150-600 or 150-500 UW
      • Superzoom (24-240, f/4-5.6, 28-400 f/4-8, 18-300 f/3.5-6.s, 12-100 f/4 m43)
    • C:
      • 27mm f/2.0
      • 135mm f/1.8 (plena)
      • <f/1.0 primes
      • 1200mm f/8
      • 100mm macro 1:1 (2.8 or 4)
    • D: 
      • 70-200 f/4
    • F: 
      • <15mm fisheye
    • F minus:
      • 26mm f/8 L mount
January 21, 2025

118: The Nexus G1 Lives, and We Try Timecode

We cover the surprising recent update on the Nexus G1 cinema camera project, discuss some new audio gear, and talk about our recent experience using timecode for the first time.

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January 14, 2025

117: 2025 Camera Rumors Part 2

Picking up where we left off last week, we cover more camera rumors (as well as our hopes) for 2025, including brands such as Panasonic, Nikon, Pentax, and OM System.

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January 7, 2025

116: 2025 Camera Rumors and Lucas Gets a Pentax 17

To start off 2025, we run through some of the biggest rumors from Canon, Fuji, and Sony and discuss what we’re expecting to see. And in news we’ve all been waiting for, Lucas finally bought that Pentax 17.

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