The flooded playa at Death Valley, as it would be seen by a being who evolved on a planet orbiting a cool red star…
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In late summer 2023, an extreme rainfall event transformed Death Valley’s arid landscape. Flash floods converted the Badwater salt flat into a shallow lake, which was strikingly captured in photographs during a stormy winter evening.
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The Minolta M Rokkor 28mm f/2.8 may be the 28mm legacy rangefinder lens most suitable for use on digital mirrorless cameras. In addition to outstanding sharpness and contrast, it displays no noticeable corner color shift and easily corrected vignetting.
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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…
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In 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…
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If there was a way to measure the ratio of quality to price of a photographic lens, then the Zeiss Contax Vario Sonnar 80-200 mm…
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The Zeiss Contax Vario Sonnar 35-70mm has a cult-like following. You will be hard-pressed to find any reference to it that is anything short of glowing. You might encounter a sourpuss here and there who may complain about it being a push-pull zoom, somewhat prone to zoom creep. When a lens is this otherworldly (perhaps this adjective has not been applied to the 35-70 Vario Sonnar before?) I could not care less.
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For some, the existence and qualities of the little forty-year-old Minolta MD 35-70mm zoom may come as a shock. But I would venture that, for many other serious enthusiasts, this lens needs no introduction.
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Are zooms as good as primes? Conventional wisdom says no. But there are at least two problems with this answer. First, what is the definition…
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