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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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…
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…
15 CommentsI 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…
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