Latest articles by Matthew Richards
Buying Guide With the best L-bracket, you can switch between perfectly aligned landscape and portrait-orientation compositions in seconds
Review New and improved, the 3 Legged Thing Lexie QD adds extra XPAND and QD attachment (and detachment) options for greater versatility and ease of use
Buying Guide The best film scanners make it easy to digitize your beloved 35mm negatives, slides, and cine film so there is no risk of losing them
Buying Guide The best travel tripods have to be small enough to pack, light enough to carry, and sturdy enough for shake-free photos!
Buying guide The best tripods offer high performance and sturdy build quality at a fair price, but which will win the three-legged race?
Review The carbon fiber Vanguard Veo 5 264CO is designed from the ground up for spotting scopes, and it’s a properly advanced, luxurious kit
Review The Leofoto Armour LN-284CT + NB-40 is a full-featured tripod and dual-pan ball head that converts into a monopod, with an impossibly budget-friendly price tag
Review The Leofoto Poseidon Ocean LP-284C + LH-30 tripod kit with low-profile ball head has waterproof, sand-proof and corrosion-resistant legs and feet, just the ticket for a day at the beach
Review The Fujifilm XF 400mm f/4.5 R LM OIS WR follows in the footsteps of its bigger 500mm silver-white sibling, with an arguably more ‘effective’ focal length, and it’s faster too
Updated For wildlife and sports photography, or anytime you’re using a big heavy lens, a monopod can give some much-needed relief
Updated The best photo printers empower you to create spectacular color and mono photo prints at home. Here's my pick of the bunch…
The range of Viltrox L-mount camera lenses has just jumped up from two to six, thanks to four new 14mm, 20mm, 40mm and 50mm prime options
Review Freewell’s ‘The Real Multi Tripod 5-in-1’ could well be the only support you ever need, for your camera, spotting scope, for tactical use, and even for yourself
Updated Whether you're cramped for space at home or need a printer you can travel with, here are my picks for the best compact printers
Buying guide Looking for the best Leica SL lenses? Leica’s full-frame L-mount lenses aim for optimum performance
News It looks like the Canon imagePROGRAF range is set to go from strength to strength with a whole slew of new roll-fed printers
Review The Panasonic Lumix S 20mm f/2.5 follows in the virtually identically sized footprints of its sibling S 40mm, but with a truly expansive field of view
Panasonic completes a new kind of ‘trinity’, now offering a trio of very different L-mount lenses that are all virtually identical in size and weight
Review The Sony FE 600mm f/6.3 GM OSS is unfeasibly small, lightweight and affordable, boldly going where no super-telephoto prime has gone before…
Review The Sony FE 400mm f/4.5 GM OSS slashes the size, weight and price of super-telephoto prime lenses, launching as the world’s lightest of its type
Updated These are the best flashguns that attach to the hotshoe of your camera, from basic bare-bones devices to fully featured models
Review The Svbony SV28Plus HD Spotting Scope delivers powerful reach with a zoom facility, some neat features, and a few extras, all at a rock-bottom price
Review The LK Samyang AF 60-180mm f/2.8 follows in the footsteps of its wide-angle and standard siblings, as a budget-friendly ‘alternative trinity’ zoom
