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…
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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 CommentsFor 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…
12 CommentsI 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 CommentsI have become very fond of 24mm prime lenses. One reason is that this focal length gives rise to very wide perspectives that look almost…
2 CommentsA 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…
4 CommentsPerhaps 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…
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