5 August, 2018
Canon 50mm f/2.2 Leica thread mount lens review
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...
15 July, 2018
Three 50mm lenses that fit my needs (video)
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...
Thanks to quite convenient focus assist system, it's a joy to use true manual focus lens on Fuji X cameras. It's the main reason I use these third party lenses available for Fuj...
23 May, 2018
Minolta X-700 and 45mm f2 Lens – A love story with an uncertain ending – By Torsten Kathke
Love stories come in more dramatic varieties. But they're never more true. The 45mm f2 Minolta MD lens was attached to an SR-T 100x I bought in a now-defunct thrift store in Mun...
20 January, 2018
7Artisans 35mm f/1.2 Review – my new mini super-sonnar
When I first heard about the 7Artisans 35mm f/1.2 lens, I must admit I was a little bit disappointed that it wasn't a full frame lens. The first images I saw of it looked a litt...