Jon Sienkiewicz

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Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Nov 01, 2025

Laowa just introduced a 180mm f/4.5 telephoto macro lens for full-frame cameras that delivers 1.5X image magnification at its closest focus setting. Shutterbug had a chance to exercise an early sample for a few weeks. Here is our review.

Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Oct 29, 2025  |  First Published: Oct 30, 2025

Just in time for Halloween, an exciting new camera filter from Cozen. This adjustable X-Ray Filter lets you peer through organic material with ease! Ogle your neighbors, check your feet for fractures and even detect Zombies!

Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Oct 24, 2025  |  First Published: Oct 25, 2025

Looking for that perfect gift for the photographer in your life—or yourself? The Click-Bit Photo Tracker uses Fuzzy Logic and IAI* to track every photo you take. I bought two—one for each arm. Here're the details of my personal experience. And BTW, in case you can't tell, this isn't an ad - it's a joke.

Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Oct 23, 2025

When we consider the bonehead blunders photographers unwittingly commit, we usually think about gross mistakes that result in fuzzy or poorly exposed images. But the error in this story involves sharp images that we want to abort at all costs. The catastrophic bungle we're identifying is…

Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Oct 17, 2025  |  First Published: Oct 18, 2025

You'd think by now I would have learned. I mean, when I began taking pictures seriously, my cellphone had a rotary dial, ISO was spelled ASA and image files were paper folders where sleeves of negatives were stored.

Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Oct 16, 2025

Fry potatoes, not computers.
Here are seven potentially catastrophic misunderstandings about surge protection.

Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Oct 11, 2025

The overuse of abbreviations and acronyms by photographers SUX. Therefore, at the risk of being totally absent of SEO keywords, I share with you today what’s wrong, IMHO, with the verbal shortcuts photographers abuse.

Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Oct 09, 2025

Protect your rights and thwart picture pirates, the outright thieves who cash in on your photographic talent. Here's priceless advice from the founder of the company that has recovered more than $15 million from copyright infringements for photographers in 68 countries since 2014.

Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Oct 07, 2025

3 Legged Thing's Kickstarter ends in just a few hours, this coming Friday (10-October) at 10:59 AM EDT to be exact. The funding for 3LT's new Axis straps has been enormously successful so far. It became fully funded in under one hour and therefore has been designated a "Project We Love" Kickstarter. Currently it's received pledges nearly 10X the stated goal.

And there's more big news that follows below. But act quickly, if you're going to. Tempus fugit.

Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Oct 03, 2025  |  First Published: Oct 04, 2025

Even if you subscribe to every big network newsletter and keep your TV tuned to a news station 24/7, you miss some important lies. We can't let that happen. So occasionally we manufacture a few interesting facts and deliver them to you as if they really happened. Hell, that's more than most of the real news outlets do. I mean, a lot of the dreck we report is at least plausible.

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