Thursday, December 23, 2010

A SITE LIKE ITS NAME

Well it's been an extended sabbatical here between posts, but why not throw in a few words here to help along the yuletide/insert-name-of-season-holiday-and/or-tradition-here spirit? Which is to say I don't really have a better place to post this, and since I've been doing absurd amounts of research on this subject lately I felt like I might as well take advantage of our little site's Tragical Hipness to launch this helpful tidbit out into the ether:

Finding the proper lens to purchase for your DSLR camera is, to put it bluntly, a bitch. For those of us mere mortals who do not spend every waking moment reading photography magazines and blogs and who just want to know what purchasing options are available for our all-too-meager price range, it's always a painful crapshoot cross-referencing Amazon searches and googling online reviews to try and pick out the salient details. You'd think the internet, that magical reference book open to us all, would have long ago come to some simple solution for this issue, but alas your expectation have, until now, would've been deucedly confounded.

Enter Lens Hero, which does what the internet is supposed to do, and collates all the relevant information you need (for purchasing lenses) into one site with a nice clean interface. Put in a camera make and model, a price range, and your intended use, and it shoots out a comprehensive list of lenses available, with quick at-a-glance tech info and even the occasional one-sentence review tacked right on. If you don't deal with lens-purchase situations on a regular basis, that probably doesn't seem like a big deal. For those of us who do, though, it's a damned lifesaver.

Well done, internet. Well. Done.

Those who will find this post of use should proceed forthwith to the LensHero.com website, located here: LensHero.com.

Those who have not the slightest hint of interest in such things have, no doubt, stopped reading long ago.