Beastgrip, makers of the camera mount used to shoot a Bentley car commercial, are back with a Kickstarter for a much-improved version of their camera mount, Beastgrip Pro. AppleInsider was given an ...

Lens adapters are clever camera accessories that allow incompatible and vintage lenses to work together. A lens adapter allows photographers to use old-school lenses with digital cameras, attach a ...

These days, camera lenses aren’t just simple bits of glass in sliding metal or plastic housings. They’ve often got a whole bunch of electronics built in as well. [Dan K] had just such a lens from ...

Anamorphic lenses are a great way to shoot in widescreen, but they’re prohibitively expensive on digital formats. Enthusiasts have experimented with using anamorphic adapter lenses from old projectors ...

If you're just getting into photography – or if buying a second lens isn't in the budget right now – you're not the only one. Most likely, you start with a kit lens, the optic that came bundled with ...

Don’t discard your old lenses; adapters can enable you to use them on your latest camera, usually with worthwhile results. Lens adapters come in varying sizes and levels of complexity. Shown here, ...

There's little doubt that when it comes to snapping spur-of-the-moment photos, nothing quite matches the always-ready convenience of the smartphone. Apple's iPhone is second only in popularity to ...

One thing I love about Micro Four Thirds cameras is that you can mount all kinds of lenses on them using simple, cheap adapters. In fact, I'm just about to sell my Nikon D700 because I almost never ...

The maker of selective-focus lenses adds a $80 adapter that converts its 50mm models into a 21mm lens. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital ...

The K-mount Pentax 50mm f/1.7 has been around since the late 1970s and remained in production until around 1984. The lens is ...