I got acquainted with this lens without intending to. Andreas Buhl, in his compendium of all things Konica, compares it somewhat unfavorably with the more modern and…
27 CommentsTag: Hexanon
Perhaps because I have never had any formal training in photography, nor in any visual art, I came to understand the capabilities and versatility of…
10 CommentsI know that Konica fans will take exception to my labeling of this lens as “obscure”. It is certainly well known among the cognoscenti, but I…
15 CommentsI remember fondly the halcyon days of film SLR’s, when it was hard to keep track of how many brands of cameras there were and…
20 CommentsAs I have written elsewhere, I think of the lens as the real “maker” of an image, the camera is only the “recorder” . And,…
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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…