A couple of years ago I happened to see an image on Twitter that completely stopped me in my tracks. It was a very fortunate sighting as I'm not a big fan of twitter, I am howev...
Ages ago, the guys at West Yorkshire Cameras posted a picture of a lens they "cobbled" together on Instagram. Apparently, behind the scenes they had joked about the fact that I ...
Recently, the lens market has seen a new fresh offering for us, vintage lenses enthusiastic people. Some workshops, like PPP, Omnar, MS Optics has been offering the possibility ...
It is a lens designed for medium format cameras (6x7 and 6x9) of the Fuji brand, which began to be marketed in 1974. It has a classic Tessar optical design, that is, 4 elements ...
When I was looking for a potential lens or rather a nice broken camera to retrieve a good lens from I stumbled on some articles here covering the Nikon AF600 (also known as Lite...
Long ago, I tried to shoot landscapes using a macro-close-up filter as a lens. I taped the filter to the front of two nested cardboard “focusing tubes” and attached them to my F...
According to Google Translate, “zhong yi” means “traditional Chinese medicine” and it did indeed cure one of my photographic afflictions.
Around 20 years ago, at eye watering c...
I love my manual focus Leica mount lenses, they are increasingly the main reason why I keep my m-mount digital cameras. With that said, sometimes I go through phases where my ap...