Dinesh Chauhan

If you shoot with a compact prime, a kit lens, or one of the many vintage primes that take a 49mm thread, you have probably spent more time thinking about your camera body than the glass you screw on the front. I have been testing 49mm filters for the past three months across my Canon … Read more

An 82mm ND filter is a neutral density lens filter with an 82mm front thread that reduces light entering the lens by a specific number of stops. I have been shooting with 82mm-threaded lenses for years, and finding the right ND filter makes the difference between a blurry overexposed mess and a silky smooth long … Read more

I have spent the last three months testing 67mm circular polarizers on everything from wide-angle Sony GM glass to mid-range Canon zooms, and the difference between a good and bad CPL filter is something I now feel every time I raise the camera. A quality 67mm circular polarizer cuts reflections off water, deepens blue skies, … Read more

Graduation season is here, and if you are reading this, you probably have someone walking across a stage soon. A camera is one of those rare gifts that says “I believe in your future” while actually being useful every single day. But picking the right one from hundreds of options is overwhelming. Our team spent … Read more

I have attended more weddings than I can count, and the one gift that consistently makes couples do a double take is a camera. Not a blender, not a set of towels, but a real camera they can use to document their honeymoon, their first apartment, and every anniversary after that. The best cameras as … Read more

My grandmother kept three shoeboxes under her bed, each stuffed with a decade’s worth of faded Polaroids of me and my cousins. She loved taking photos but hated her old point-and-shoot. The menus confused her, the screen was too small, and she gave up after a year. When I started researching the best cameras as … Read more

I have stood at the edge of Mather Point more times than I can count, and every single visit teaches me something new about light, composition, and gear. The Grand Canyon is not just big. It is a 277-mile-long classroom that punishes unprepared photographers with blown highlights and soft horizons while rewarding the well-equipped with … Read more

Cruise vacations throw everything at your camera in a single trip. One minute you are shooting the sun rising over open ocean, the next you are snorkeling in waist-deep turquoise water off a Caribbean beach, and by dinner you are framing your partner against a glacier in Alaska. Smartphones handle a lot of that, but … Read more

Alaska cruises are a photographer’s dream and a camera’s worst enemy, all at once. You get breaching humpback whales, calving glaciers, bald eagles perched in spruce trees, and jagged peaks towering over glassy fjords. You also get salt spray, drizzle, 40-degree mornings in July, and wildlife that stays a quarter mile from the ship. Our … Read more

I spent three winters chasing the aurora across Iceland, Norway, and the Canadian Rockies, and the single biggest factor in whether I came home with usable shots was the camera I had in my bag. The best cameras for photographing the northern lights share a few traits: a large photosensitive area (full-frame sensor), strong high-ISO … Read more