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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Sometimes 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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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…
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I have become very fond of 24mm prime lenses. One reason is that this focal length gives rise to very wide perspectives that look almost…
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A little over a year ago I got interested in M42-mount lenses. The original reason, which was being able to use manual focus lenses on…
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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…
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I 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…
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It is not often that one can get it all. But matching the best of twentieth century photographic engineering – or perhaps art – to the…
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The Sony A7s
Almost two years ago I wrote about the Sony A7. Quite a bit has changed since then in my photography world. I sold all of…