How to get that $10,000+ lighting setup look with a $425 speedlight kit
I’m in a lot of flash and lighting groups on Facebook, and the amount of gear lust shown in them often surprises me. As do the excuses people come up with as to why the light in their images doesn’t...
View ArticleYongnuo quietly announce ultrawide 14mm f/2.8 autofocus lens for DSLRs
Yongnuo have quietly announced the new ultra wide angle 14mm f/2.8 lens rumoured a few days ago. Looking at the specs it appears to be designed for full frame bodies offering a diagonal 114° field of...
View ArticleThis guy put a $48 Yongnuo lens on a 5K RED Dragon to see how it stands up
We’ve all seen this lens vs that lens and camera vs phone comparisons before, but I’ve not seen one quite like this before. A $48 Yongnuo 50mm f/1.8 lens on a ridiculously expensive 5K RED cinema...
View ArticleHow to get that $10,000+ lighting setup look with a $425 speedlight kit
I’m in a lot of flash and lighting groups on Facebook, and the amount of gear lust shown in them often surprises me. As do the excuses people come up with as to why the light in their images doesn’t...
View ArticleYongnuo steps up their lens game with a YN60mm F2 macro lens
Yongnuo is a brand known for copying being inspired by expensive lenses and creating similar lenses for really cheap. To give you an idea how low their prices are, they offer an alternative to the...
View ArticleYongnuo announces an odd Micro Four Thirds camera module for iPhones
As well as the recent announcement of a new 60mm f/2 macro lens, Yongnuo have a new listing on their website for a YN43 camera module. But it’s a strange looking little unit. There’s no specifications...
View ArticleYongnuo releases new 50mm f/1.8 II: better image quality and closer focusing...
Yongnuo is known for dirt cheap lenses, and they have just added another one to their line. The company has released a new 50mm f/1.8 II lens. It’s almost as cheap as the old model, but with some...
View ArticleYongnuo brings another cheap lens to the masses: a 50mm F1.4 Prime Lens
A few weeks ago, Yongnuo released new products including a camera module for iPhones and the YN50mm F1.8 lens. Today, they’re expanding their line even more with the YN50mm F1.4. If Yongnuo sticks to...
View ArticleYongnuo’s new 50mm f/1.4 lens keeps up with Canon at less than 2/3rds the price
Yongnuo has been coming pretty thick and fast with lenses over the last couple of years. Sure, they’re generally copies of somebody else’s lens, but they’re cheap and, for the most part, seem to...
View ArticleYongnuo’s 50mm f/1.4 lens is now available for Nikon
Well, we weren’t sure that it was going to happen, but Yongnuo has released their YN50mm f/1.4 lens for Nikon F mount. The lens was released originally released in EF mount for Canon back in March. But...
View ArticleYongnuo is releasing a new Android mirrorless camera with built-in 4G
A year ago, I called out Yongnuo for not being able to keep up with Godox. Their flashes seemed to have stalled in development and they had randomly switched from making inexpensive, but not completely...
View ArticleYongnuo’s new Android-powered mirrorless camera is Micro Four Thirds with an...
When Yongnuo teased a new mirrorless camera the other day, there wasn’t really any information to go along with it. Pretty much the only thing we new for sure was that it had 4G capability. But we...
View Article2018 DIYP Gift Guide – Lenses
In this part of our 2019 seasonal gift guides, we’re moving on from cameras to focus on lenses. There have been some great ones released over the last year. And there have also been one or two unusual...
View ArticleYongnuo’s YN450 has a Micro Four Thirds sensor, Canon EF mount, Android OS...
When this camera was first teased last October, my mind was stuck somewhere between “wtf?” and “this is so crazy, it just might work!”. They made the camera sort-off official a few days later by...
View ArticleTwo years later, Yongnuo finally releases the 85mm f/1.8 AF lens for Nikon F...
The Yongnuo 85mm f/1.8 lens was originally spoken way back in 2016, along with the announcement of the Yongnuo 100mm f/2. The 85mm f/1.8 for Canon EF did come, eventually, and then all mention of an F...
View ArticleYongnuo just released an autofocus Canon EF to Sony E mount adapter and it’s...
Yongnuo has just released the EF-E II Lens Mount Adapter with autofocus for Canon EF and EF-S lenses to Sony E Mount. It’s equipped with a USB socket for firmware updates, supports both phase and...
View ArticleIf you can’t beat ’em, copy ’em – Yongnuo announces YN200 portable strobe
Yongnuo has just announced their new YN200 “Speedlite”. Following their tradition of making products that are highly “inspired” by other products made by other companies, this one looks almost exactly...
View ArticleYongnuo finally starts to unify their flash systems with the new YN560-TX Pro
A couple of years ago, I made a post about why I could no longer recommend Yongnuo to flash newcomers over Godox. In short, their systems were just too fragmented, with one piece of kit often not being...
View ArticleYongnuo has announced a faster, quieter version of its 35mm f/1.4 lens for...
Chinese manufacturer, Yongnuo, has announced a new version of its 35mm f/1.4 lens for Canon DSLRs. It remains largely unchanged from the existing 35mm f/1.4 model for Nikon and Canon in design, except...
View ArticleYongnuo, Mediaedge and Venus Optics (LAOWA) have joined the Micro Four Thirds...
Well, this is interesting. Panasonic and Olympus have officially welcomed three new companies into the Micro Four Thirds System Standard Group. Those companies are Venus Optics, Mediaedge and,...
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