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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I 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…
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It 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…
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It is difficult to explain in words what makes a great lens, and impossible to define it with numbers and charts. Quantitative measurements are the…
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As 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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I can think of no reason to begin this blog with a post on any particular topic, so I figure I will begin with a bug…
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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…