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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The image that opens this essay is quite possibly the closest I will ever get to photographing a large wild animal in its natural habitat. But I think of this humble coyote…
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Perhaps the most beautiful cat poem ever written, by Jorge Luis Borges, “A Un Gato”
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Isaac Asimov may have been the worst of the famous science fiction writers, but he understood overpopulation. His unsophisticated prose would have been dreadful if…
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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…