14 January, 2026
TTArtisan 75mm f/2 AF Lens Mini-review
Executive Summary: Buy it! If compact primes are your thing, you are going to love the TTArtisan 75mm f/2 AF lens. In case you missed it (like me), TTArtisan released this excel...
4 January, 2026
Minolta MC Zoom-Rokkor 100-200mm – the Best Worst Minolta Lens
When I bought my first Minolta camera, it came both with a standard MD 50 mm 1.7 and a MC Rokkor 100-200mm zoom lens as a bonus. The camera was an SR-T 303 and quickly became my...
22 December, 2025
Viltrox 85mm f/2 Evo Review – A perfect balance of compromise for me!
The Viltrox 85mm f/2 Evo is the lens I wished I was reviewing when I was writing about their 85mm 1.8. I really liked that lens, but there was something about its bokeh, its lar...
I am a lifelong Nikon fan and own a variety of Nikon cameras. I have very vivid memories of working in a camera store in the mid-to-late 1970s, where I spent almost 20 years. Th...
27 October, 2025
Viltrox 85mm 1.8 STM II (Nikon Z Mount) Review
I don’t review modern autofocus lenses all that often, but recently – for reasons I will come to in a moment – I have begun to find them increasingly interesting. Ac...
25 September, 2025
Day Out at The NPG – Part 3 – 85mm Lens – One Shot Story
In Part 1 I relayed a conversation I had had with our Tutor Eddie. On his assertion that no-one shoots with an 85mm lens these days and all portrait photography is shot using wi...
24 September, 2025
Day Out at The NPG – Part 2 – Kit – A One Shot Story
Towards the end of my article Day Out at The NPG, Part 1 – Eddie, I very briefly introduced our photographic model for the day. Kit, a gentleman in his late 70s who is a profes...
