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1 January, 2025

Kodak Single-Element Plastic Meniscus Lens – A Quest for the Primitive, Episode 1: The Worst Lens Ever Produced?

By Jonathan Leavitt

If one accepts that no optical design can ever attain perfection, one should also consider that no lens can be so bad as to be totally useless either. When you think of lenses n...

22 December, 2024

7Artisans 35mm 0.95 – Testing this Fujifilm X Mount Lens in a Demanding Environment

By Andrea Monti

So far I have been very happy with the 7Artisans 35mm 0.95 in X-mount, but I have only tested it in non-demanding conditions. Although the results were promising at first sight,...

18 December, 2024

Viltrox AF 35mm 1.7 Z DX – A new nifty fifty prime lens for the Nikon DX system

By Mike Brooks

If you grew up in the analogue age, chances are your first 35mm camera came with a fifty millimeter “kit” lens. These “nifty 50s” were reasonably small, reasonably bright, reaso...

12 November, 2024

Thypoch 50mm 1.4 Simera review – A high spec rangefinder lens!

By Hamish Gill

I don’t often think of rangefinder lenses as being high spec. Being for manual cameras and requiring no electronic communication with the camera to work properly, they are by mo...

24 May, 2024

Thypoch Eureka 50mm f/2 M-Mount Lens Review

By Hamish Gill

The first I heard of Thypoch was when they got in touch with me about the loan of the subject of this article, the brand new (announced today) Thypoch Eureka 50mm f/2. I like to...

16 March, 2024

7Artisans 50mm 1.8 AF – A Brand New Budget Auto Focus Lens

By Hamish Gill

The 7Artisans 50mm 1.8 AF is a brand new full frame autofocus lens. I have been beta testing and playing with pre-release versions here for a while and have been looking forward...

27 November, 2023

Mr.Ding Noxlux 50mm f1.1 review – by Vincent Bihler

By vincentbihler

Fast 50mm lenses offering for Leica M mount has flourished these recent years with the appearing of Chinese lens manufacturers. A lot of them have proven to be very nicely made ...

13 November, 2023

Kodak-Anastigmat Ektar 5cm f/3.5 – Retina Lens Mini Review

By Agata Urbaniak

The proliferation of mirrorless cameras paved the way for a rapid increase in vintage lens usage on digital. An average camera nowadays can, without much hassle, support practic...

Omar Tibi on A Journey Through 26 Cameras and Expired Film
Ricardo, I really enjoyed going through your roll of shots! As a fellow scientist, I could very much relate to…
Scott Gitlin on 5 Frames with the Contax TVS, Kono! Art 100 and a Baltic Marina
The color cast is a vintage atmosphere generator. I would leave these photos as is and keep the film in…
Kary Schumpert on A Guitarist – My photo of the year 2025
Indeed!! Great shot!!!

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