I’m SLR guy. I started to shoot film with one. They formed my habits of seeing and I appreciate the honest approach of the single lens…
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I still can’t get enough of shooting wide aspect ratios. I already covered my cheapish take on film wide aspect shooting in several articles here and…
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5 frames with Pentax MZ-3, Voigtlander 20mm in Panorama Mode with pushed Tri-X – By Aivaras
November 30, 2020I’d like to get back to topic of shooting wide aspect ratio on 35mm film with crop mode. Pentax MZ-3 and some other MZ series models…
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5 frames with Pentax MZ-3 and Voigtlander 20mm in Panorama Mode – By Aivaras
July 28, 2020First of all – they made me do it! After reading recent Rob Jamieson and Hamish Gill posts about panoramic function of Pentax MZ series bodies, I…
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That time I shot a Noritar 80mm f/2 medium format lens on a Pentax 35mm film camera – By Aivaras
February 25, 2020For a long time, I was looking into 6x6 medium format cameras with a really fast standard focal length lens (around 80mm). Such lenses are rare,…
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5 frames with a Voigtlander Color-Skopar 20mm f/3.5 SL Asperical for Pentax – By Aivaras
February 23, 2020It’s already been a year and I half since I burned all the bridges and refused to own any digital camera - I now shoot exclusively…
I had an opportunity to own and use Contax S2 together with 3 lenses (Carl Zeiss Planar T* 50mm F1.7 C/Y, Carl Zeiss Sonnar T* 85mm…
I got my first medium format camera, a Mamiya 645 1000s, in 2017. It was a leap in quality and big change of workflow compared to…
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5 frames with a Nikon Nikkor HC 5cm f/2 ltm on a Sony A7RII – By Aivaras
December 15, 2018I bought this lens for my Sony A7RII in search of my own “best” 50mm lens. For my digital camera I use two fifties, a Zeiss…
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5 Frames with a Mamiya Sekor 45mm f/2.8 N & Mamiya 645 1000S – By Aivaras
November 21, 2018When I dipped my toe into medium format photography, my first camera was Mamiya 645 1000S, equipped with 80mm 1.9 standard lens. After understanding how captivating…
