Author: Alik Griffin

  • Best Sony RX10 II Memory Cards

    A speed test comparing all the most popular UHS-II and UHS-I memory cards in the Sony RX10 II. Use this guide to find the best memory cards for 4k video or for your style of shooting.

  • Sony E-Mount Lenses (APS-C) – A Complete List

    Sony E-Mount Lenses (APS-C) – A Complete List

    A massive list of all the official and third-party APS-C lenses that are available in the Sony Mount.

  • 4k 100M Not Working With Your SD Card? Here Is What I’ve Found

    4k 100M Not Working With Your SD Card? Here Is What I’ve Found

    Having trouble shooting 4K 100M with your memory cards? I’ve been tackling this issue for some time and feel like I’m pretty close to figuring out what’s going on.

  • Best Accessories Fujifilm X-Pro2

    Best Accessories Fujifilm X-Pro2

    Like the X100T the Fujifilm X-Pro2 has been setup to be very customizable. Accessories like thumb grips and soft shutters that don’t typically work well on DLSR style cameras work great on these rangefinder style cameras. Although most third party accessory companies haven’t started modeling their designs to fit this camera yet, there still are…

  • Hoodman Steel UHS-II SD Memory Card Review

    Hoodman Steel UHS-II SD Memory Card Review

    The Hoodman Steel UHS-II memory card is a fairly new card and brand to join the ranks of UHS-II cards. In terms of speed and performance, it performs very close to the Transcend UHS-II cards or the Fujifilm UHS-II cards, except it’s read speeds are a touch slower.  If you’re looking for a good card…

  • The Monkey Baby And The New Year

    The Monkey Baby And The New Year

    2016 will be the year of the Monkey according to the Chinese calendar, so for our holiday card this year we ended up dressing our little one up as a monkey. This is the shot we ended up using for the card although I did manage to get a few more good ones.

  • Rainbow Bridge – Part 2

    Rainbow Bridge – Part 2

    Here are a few more shots of the Rainbow Bridge in Long Beach. It’s been such an insanely busy year with the new child that I’ve hardly had time to shoot or even publish photos I’ve been taking.

  • Sony E-Mount Ultra Wide Lens Comparison

    I’m still working on Samyang vs Voigtlander vs Sony ultra wide lens comparison and want to make it really good but that takes time and I’ve been busy. There are so many variable to get right with a lens comparison like this and I don’t want to be one of those bloggers that blindly throws…

  • Rainbow Bridge Long Beach – XT1

    Rainbow Bridge Long Beach – XT1

    I haven’t been spending enough time with my Fujinon 10-24mm since it got back from repair. It really is a fun lens to use, especially for landscapes. My only gripe is who ever repaired it left a giant piece of dust on the inside of the rear element that screams at me when shooting anything…

  • Toshiba UHS-II SD Memory Card Review

    Toshiba UHS-II SD Memory Card Review

    Toshiba SD memory card were hard to find for a while and when you could find them they were way over priced. The company was in limbo and there was a lot of uncertainty with the brand. That doesn’t mean the Toshiba UHS-II memory cards are not amazing. They are often the best performing cards…