The Minolta M Rokkor 28mm f/2.8 may be the 28mm legacy rangefinder lens most suitable for use on digital mirrorless cameras. In addition to outstanding sharpness and contrast, it displays no noticeable corner color shift and easily corrected vignetting.
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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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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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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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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…