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The OLED MacBook Pro is worth the extra $400 if you color grade on your laptop screen, and a waste if you edit on an external monitor. Here are the exact MacBook Pros I'd buy for video editing at every budget.

The Viltrox 35mm F1.4 Pro is a well-built 35mm with quick autofocus and almost no focus breathing, at a price well below the Sony 35mm GM. The one real con is the weight.

The iPhone Duo has fewer camera features than the iPhone 18 Pro, but its folding design, huge inner screen and Duo Preview make it the most fun iPhone I have used for photo and video in years.

I tested the Sony ECM-W5 on the FX5 and at a real wedding: 32-bit float straight into the camera, monitoring with your own LE Audio earbuds, USB timecode, and the one setting that makes monitoring look broken.

Sony and Panasonic never made an 85mm F1.2 with autofocus, so Sigma did. Here's how the $1,600 Sigma 85mm F1.2 DG Art holds up for wedding filmmakers, how it compares to the F1.4 options, and the one reason to skip it.

On paper the iPhone 18 Pro and 17 Pro are nearly identical, but for filmmakers and photographers the new sensor, F1.48 variable aperture and bigger vapor chamber make the 18 Pro a massive upgrade. Here's who should buy it and who should keep their phone.