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…
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In 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…
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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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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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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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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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