I recently bought myself a Voigtlander 50mm f/2.5 Color-Skopar. I’d been looking for a lens to compliment my 50mm ZM Sonnar that took, frankly, less energy to use. I wanted an i...
I’ve had this little Canon 50mm f/2.2 for a while now - I bought it attached to a Canon P. Both camera and lens were items I’d eyed up on eBay a few times, so when I saw the com...
Following my recent Canon 50mm 1.4 ltm review, a couple of friendly comments were made at the end of episode 26 of The Classic Lenses Podcast about why I wasn’t keeping the lens...
For my approach to photography I find that 50mm makes sense for a lens with the greatest capacity for intimacy in an image. 90mm is my go-to for street composition involving lar...
The Canon 50mm f/1.4 ltm is a lens that doesn’t seem to quite have the following it deserves - or at least that’s what you’d guess by looking at their used value. I think in rea...
One of my first rangefinder lenses was the 50mm f0.95 Noctilux, which offers one of the most extreme light gathering apertures available to commercial photographers. I used this...
When I first looked at the 7Artisans 5mm f/1.1 specs I asked myself if this could be a kind of 'everyman’s Noctilux'. But hand in hand with this question comes the scepticism. I...
A few years ago a mate of mine bought a v3 50mm Leica Summicron that could be best described as a bit of a dog. Optically, it was spot on, but mechanically it looked and felt a ...
