The 28mm focal length is versatile, but not easy to use. Street photographers like it because of how much they can fit into it, but…
23 CommentsTag: German Lenses
I remember the short-lived Icarex 35 SLR system from the time when I was becoming interested in photography, in the mid to late 1960’s. Even…
10 CommentsIn an accompanying article I wrote some generalities about the Icarex 35 SLR system from the 1960’s. I wrote there that, in my view, there…
20 CommentsWas the age of steam in black and white? No, of course not, but the temptation is there, when photographing ancient railroads, to render them…
6 CommentsThere is an all but abandoned hamlet on the Mediterranean coast of southern Spain with the very Castilian name of La Almadraba de Monteleva. If…
2 CommentsIf 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…
26 CommentsThe 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.
20 CommentsSometimes one becomes conscious that life has become too complicated, and that it is all one’s own fault. That happened to me a few months…
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The Best of Both Worlds
It is not often that one can get it all. But matching the best of twentieth century photographic engineering – or perhaps art – to the…