The Lensrentals Podcast

Shooting the Sh!t: Pay Transparency, PA Work, and BS Reviews

It's the season finale of The Lensrentals Podcast! This week we're keeping it very informal. Joey, Roger, and Ryan are each bringing in a topic we haven't yet had time to

From Concert Photography to Commercial Videography w/Nathan Armstrong and Will Evans

Nathan Armstrong and Will Evans are co-workers at NLA Projects, a Memphis-area production company that specializes in both photography and videography. Nahan started as a

How to Test Your Gear at Home

We've all had it happen before, you just wrapped a great photoshoot, and you get home, excited to look through the photos, only to find that all the images are a hair sof

Ask Lensrentals: Lens Inspection, Filters, and Repair Reliability

In this week's episode, we sit down with Roger and Joey as they answer some of our listener's questions. And they cover a lot, from how Speedboosters work, to the benefit

Ask Lensrentals: Oops! All Video

Much like the ongoing production error at the Captain Crunch factory, causing them to overproduce berries, this episode is entitled 'Oops! All Video'. Enjoy as video expe

How to Buy a Used Camera

In this week's episode of the Lensrentals Podcast, Ryan is joined by Roger and Joey as they go through all you need to know when buying a used camera system. From craigsl

How the Canon 5.2mm Dual Fisheye Could Change VR

On today's episode of the Lensrentals Podcast, we're doing something a little different and talking about a single piece of gear - the Canon RF 5.2 Dual Fisheye lens for

Why You Can't Trust Weather Sealing w/ Chris Gampat of The Phoblographer

This week on the Lensrentals podcast, we touch on a topic that Roger has discussed for a number of years here on the blog - Why You Can't Trust Weather Sealing. And to he

Battle of the Flagships: R3 vs. Z9 vs. A1

The Lensrentals Podcast is finally back, and today we're tackling questions that many people have been wondering about - comparing the three latest flagships from the Can

BEST OF: How Lensrentals Reached a Million Orders

In 2006 Roger went on an Alaskan cruise and had to pay big bucks for a lens he knew wouldn't be very useful to him after he came home. Thus an idea was born, and now 13 y

BEST OF: How to Make the Most of a Small Crew

Jem Schofield is a producer, DP and educator and the founder of theC47, a full-service production company that focuses on video production, filmmaking, consulting & educa

BEST OF: How David Carson Won a Pulitzer Covering Ferguson

David Carson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Carson's images are featured extensively in the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking Ne

BEST OF: How to Make Money Shooting Portraits (Or When the Art of Photography Meets the Business of Photography)

Zach Sutton is a Los Angeles Photographer specializing in headshot, beauty, and portrait photography. He is also our blog editor! Sarah and Joey talk with Zach about how

BEST OF: Women's Weekend Film Challenge (Or How a Short Film Contest is Attempting to Change the Industry)

Ally is joined by Katrina Medoff and Tracy Sayre who are the executive co-directors of the Women's Weekend Film Challenge which is a women-in-film initiative that places

BEST OF: How to Break a Camera (Or Why Saltwater Will Destroy Everything You've Ever Loved)

Impact damage, sensor scratches, and shutter failure, oh my! Lensrentals Founder Roger Cicala is once again joined by Repair Manager Aaron Cloz and Senior Photo Tech Joey

BEST OF: How to Break a Lens (Or How the Lensrentals Camera Repair Department Has Fixed So Many Lenses)

Roger is joined by our Repair Manager Aaron and Senior Photo Tech Joey to discuss broken lenses, the types of repairs they've encountered, what they think can be attempte

2021 Wrap Party: Photo Industry Review

It's our year-end review of photography. Host Ryan Hill is talking with Lensrentals Quality Control Manager Joey Miller and Blog Editor Zach Sutton about their favorite g

2021 Wrap Party: Video Industry Review

This week we're wrapping up the year from a video perspective. Lensrentals Product Development Supervisor Ally Aycock Patterson and LensProToGo Video Producer Dom Boisver

Photo Gear Rodeo: 100S, R3, and Z9, oh my!

Yeehaw, it's a photo gear rodeo y'all! Ryan, Joey, and Zach host our first return guest, Barney Britton, Senior Editor at DPReview. We're talking about several new and up

Ask Lensrentals: Time Limits, Thicc Primes, and Third Party Lenses

Welcome back to one of our favorite types of episodes where we're answering more of your questions about all things relating to photography and cinematography. Ryan is jo