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Godox X3/Xnano First Impression Review

1 Comment / Gear / May 8, 2024

In this first impression review, we’ll look at the new Godox X3/Xnano flash trigger, currently available for Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, and Olympus. Leica is on their roadmap but not available for sale yet. In China, the unit is called the X3, […]

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Family Trip 2023 – Gear Overload 

7 Comments / Gear, Travel / October 27, 2023

One of the main reasons I got into photography in 2016 was because of a goal to capture as many memories of my aging mother and father as possible. Having moved from Canada to China in 2013, I lost the

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Sony A7R5 First Impressions Review

17 Comments / Gear / October 15, 2023

When I retired my Fujifilm X-T5 out of frustration with false positive autofocus issues, I turned to Sony to find an “action camera” replacement. The Fujifilm GFX100S would remain my everyday camera for landscape and general photography and the Leica

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Sigma 50MM F2 “Sigmacron” DG DN Contemporary i-Series E-Mount Review

2 Comments / Gear / July 30, 2023

This review will look at the beautifully designed and all-metal build Sigma 50MM F2 lens for the Sony E-Mount. This will be the first of two reviews, with this covering the 50MM and the second review covering the 35MM.  I’ve

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Frustrated with the Fujifilm X-T5, got a Sony A7R5

19 Comments / Gear / July 16, 2023

In my Fujifilm X-T5 review, I noted that I was reaching the limit of my patience with Fujifilm in regards to their autofocus performance. Unfortunately, a recent episode pushed me beyond my limit and I decided to sell the X-T5

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Looking Forward

Leave a Comment / Gear / October 7, 2022

It seems awkward to be typing this in an empty Beijing Capital Airport that used to be overwhelmed with people; so packed was this airport that the government built an enormous new one (Daxing Airport) about 50 minutes away to

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PSA: Defective Sony Tough SD Cards

Leave a Comment / Gear / June 18, 2020

Dear readers, we take our product endorsements seriously here; we don’t accept freebies or perks from companies and we always use transparent and objective testing measurements to identify the best products for you to use in your travel photography. In

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wanderinglass.com Galle Sri Lanka

It’s Not About The Gear

5 Comments / Photography / February 26, 2020

Gear related posts on this site generate 10-50x more views than travel photography related posts. There are a number of reasons why this is likely, but today I want to discuss how little of an impact gear actually makes on

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Bamboo Forest, Kyoto

Image Management Part 3

4 Comments / Photography / July 15, 2019

This is part 3 of a 3 part series on image management for travelling photography hobbyists. The first covered preparing the storage media for travelling and ensuring reliable and fast operation of storage media and the camera. The second focused

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B.C. Place and Vancouver night skyline

Image Management Part 2

1 Comment / Photography / May 18, 2019

This is part 2 of a 3 part series on image management for travelling photography hobbyists. The first covered preparing the storage media for travelling and ensuring reliable and fast operation of storage media and the camera. This second part

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Image Management Part 1

3 Comments / Photography / April 28, 2019

There are two questions I get asked frequently from this site (usually via the contact form, although I wish they’d use the comments section below so that others can leverage the answers; the comments section does not require any login/userid):

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