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…
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 CommentsPerhaps the most beautiful cat poem ever written, by Jorge Luis Borges, “A Un Gato”
1 CommentI 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 CommentsIt was not all that long ago that I had little use for focal lengths shorter than 50mm. I was always thinking about getting an even…
7 CommentsIt is difficult to explain in words what makes a great lens, and impossible to define it with numbers and charts. Quantitative measurements are the…
25 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…