CSI Photographs
Television dramas such as the CSI series take many liberties with photographs, especially when it comes to forensic analysis, so...
Author: Jon Tarrant
Wedding Photography
If you had to photograph a wedding using only one lens then which lens would it be? Having taken a...
Tamron 18-270mm EISA Award
Tamron’s new 18-270mm, with its piezoelectric motor, was named EISA’s European Zoom Lens of the Year 2011-12. Yet the same...
Visual sharpness
Numerical testing and visual sharpness are two very different things. Of the two, visual sharpness is probably more important but...
Macro lens choice
Macro lenses come in a variety of different focal lengths but how do you choose the best focal length for...
Zoom lenses and composition
The arrival of zoom lenses changed the way photographers approached their subjects. In the days of primes you had to...
Compact System Cameras
Compact System Cameras are, in many ways, the best of both worlds; they and small and yet also very versatile....
Measuring lens resolution
Lens resolution figures have long been stated in line-pairs per millimetre but in the digital arena it is common to...
Picture lines and image detail
Having looked at resolution figures quoted in line-pairs-per-millimetre and in cycles-per-pixel attention now turns to lines-per-picture, which is a measure...