I’m not a collector but I definitely have way more lenses than your average shooter. Sometimes I feel a little sad for the lenses I don’t use enough and consider it ...
Agata Urbaniak's Posts
24 March, 2022
Nikkor-T 10.5cm f/4 – The Mountain, the Berg, and the Molehill – Pt 1 – By Agata Urbaniak
The following article is once again a 3-parter but this time it explores long lenses and how they fit into my pursuit of a small and lightweight kit that covers all bases (withi...
6 December, 2021
Ernst Leitz (Leica) Elmar 9cm f/4 Collapsible – The Near Perfect Slow Lens – By Agata Urbaniak
This is a review of the Ernst Leitz (Leica) Elmar 9cm f/4 Collapsible lens. Hamish recently reviewed the huge and very fast TT Artisan 90mm 1.25. This is perhaps the antithesis ...
22 November, 2021
Nikon (Nippon Kogaku) Nikkor-Q.C 5cm f/3.5 Review – An Odd Duck in the Sea of 50mm Lenses – By Agata Urbaniak
In the early days of my interest in Leica, what I found particularly curious was just how many 50mm lenses its users had. It used to be so simple - at first you want a lens that...
Ebay is a dangerous place. One moment you see a funny-looking lens with an eye-catching chunky focus ring in related searches, the next you’re awaiting a parcel from Japan. Ther...
11 October, 2021
Nikon (Nippon Kogaku) W-Nikkor.C 2.5cm f/4 LTM – Nikon’s Tiny Gems, pt 3 – By Agata Urbaniak
In this last part my mini-series looking at wide angle Nikkor LTM lenses, I'm going to look at the W-Nikkor.C 2.5cm f/4. At first glance the W-Nikkor.C 2.5cm f/4 is a similar st...
4 October, 2021
Nikon (Nippon Kogaku) W-Nikkor.C 2.8cm f/3.5 LTM – Nikon’s Tiny Gems, pt 2 – By Agata Urbaniak
This review is going to look at the W-Nikkor.C 2.8cm f/3.5.The W-Nikkor 3.5cm f/2.5 I covered in part 1 of this short series exceeded expectations. Reading about a lens is one t...
27 September, 2021
Nikon (Nippon Kogaku) W-Nikkor.C 3.5cm f/2.5 LTM – Nikon’s Tiny Gems, pt 1 – By Agata Urbaniak
Over the lockdown period I moved away from shooting concerts towards a more casual kind of photography, scoping out locations in the neighbourhood, using photography as a pretex...
