Was the age of steam in black and white? No, of course not, but the temptation is there, when photographing ancient railroads, to render them…
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There is an all but abandoned hamlet on the Mediterranean coast of southern Spain with the very Castilian name of La Almadraba de Monteleva. If…
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If there was a way to measure the ratio of quality to price of a photographic lens, then the Zeiss Contax Vario Sonnar 80-200 mm…
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I left Argentina in 1986, the year of Borges’ death. Although I had lived in Argentina for more than three decades, I did not discover…
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A possible solution to the mystery in “The Beach Murders” . This is one of JG Ballard’s less dystopian short stories, and also one that, to those who lived through it, conveys the feelings of the Cold War during the 1960’s with Ballardian incisiveness.
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The Zeiss Contax Vario Sonnar 35-70mm has a cult-like following. You will be hard-pressed to find any reference to it that is anything short of glowing. You might encounter a sourpuss here and there who may complain about it being a push-pull zoom, somewhat prone to zoom creep. When a lens is this otherworldly (perhaps this adjective has not been applied to the 35-70 Vario Sonnar before?) I could not care less.
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For some, the existence and qualities of the little forty-year-old Minolta MD 35-70mm zoom may come as a shock. But I would venture that, for many other serious enthusiasts, this lens needs no introduction.
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Are zooms as good as primes? Conventional wisdom says no. But there are at least two problems with this answer. First, what is the definition…
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For many years during the golden age of slide film I owned a Minolta SRT-100 and a few Minolta primes, all of them thoughtlessly given…
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