Long-term 35MMC readers recall that I have used my dad’s Leica IIIC rangefinder camera for decades. He bought it at the Post Exchange in Guam in 1949 and used it for…
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We are currently living a very exciting period of time. The lens market has been rencently opened with third party producers that are becoming better and better, often at a very…
I’ve owned this Minolta G-Rokkor 28mm f/3.5 for quite a while now - I had Bellamy find me one after I sold my Minolta TC-1 (also bought from Bellamy), the camera…
7artisans have been producing some absolutely fantastic options in the low-budget lens department, and one of their best entries for rangefinder coupled full frame cameras is the 50mm f/1.1, an incredibly…
As much as I enjoy shooting film, I still take the majority of my photographs with digital cameras. That said, I prefer to use cameras and lenses which give me as…
Now I must admit, I’m not particularly into fisheye photography. Nor is a fisheye lens the first type of lens that I think of as being particularly compatible with Leica rangefinder…
I thought it might be interesting to follow up my post about my “need” for Zeiss ZM lenses in my life with a post about a lens I don’t “need”, but…
Over the last 6 or so months I’ve really bought into the Zeiss ZM system of lenses. I’ve gone from owning 2 of them to 5, and in combination with film…
In my recent Pentax MX review I touched on the fact that I’d only really been shooting it with the 40mm f/2.8 pancake lens. This is a lens that seems to…
