Sigma introduced the 45mm f/2.8 DG DN lens last year for Sony E-mount and Leica L-mount cameras. Sigma had four goals when designing this lens: small…
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Leica 50mm f/2 Summicron DR – Plum Blossoms – By Steven Bleistein
April 3, 2020About a month before Japan’s world-famous cherry blossom season in late March, is the lesser-known plum blossom season in late February. Plum blossoms in Japan are…
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Canon 50mm ƒ/1.4 LTM Lens – A Mini-Review of 1960s Optical Excellence – by Andrew Morang
March 11, 2020Long-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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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7Artisans 75mm f/1.25 Review – a confusion of “want” over “need”
December 9, 2019I 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…
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,…
