8 pros and 8 cons of the Canon 85mm f/1.2 L II USM lens. Nothing fancy. Just a chat about this superb lens with an honest opinion about where it's not so good.

We had the 5D and the Macro lens out yesterday to take some stock photography for the website. If any of you are Maschine Mikro owners and love the product as much as us, you may want to download a few of these images.

A brief and simple introduction to CRI rating (Colour Rendering Index) discussing its importance and comparing images shot with different rating bulbs.

Here are 8 rules for anyone interested in photography and taking pictures with something more than a smart phone and Instagram. If you decide to ignore them all, all the time then that becomes a creative decision that is right for you.

Rather late to the party, I have recently invested in a GoPro Hero 3+ camera. It provides a flexible and robust addition to anyone's kit and will let you obtain footage when you just wouldn't risk more expensive equipment or simply couldn't access with more larger cameras. I decided to attach it to my car and attempt a simple round the block trip filming from different locations / camera angles on each trip.

Timelapse options on the XF100 are a little strange. On first inspection, it appears to have some pretty flexible and solid options for timelapse photography with the Interval Record feature. XF100 Left SideHowever, you soon realise that although you can set the interval to 1 second, the fewest frames you can capture is 2. This describes a way around that limitation.

This post looks at the main plus points / pros to the Canon XF100 together with main negative / cons to the camera. It is not meant as a full review of the product but rather a quick reference with a small introduction.

Encoding a timeline from Premiere takes a long time. That's why I find it annoying that Premiere Pro sometimes sits there encoding at a leisurely 45% CPU. This is a solution to that problem. I have also included a short video to show this problem and solution in action.