25 March, 2026
Nikkor AF 85mm 1.8 D – A Rediscovery
If you’ve read any of my posts on 35mmc, you’d think I was a strictly a B&W film shooter. There are times, however, when I fall off the film wagon and shoot digital for two ...
26 February, 2026
Carl Zeiss Jena Triotar 85/4 and Nikon Z5 – An Empirical Field Test
This empirical field test of a non exactly well-preserved Carl Zeiss Jena Triotar 85/4. Least of the ‘fogged’ glasses of this sample now under the care of master Adr...
4 February, 2026
Viltrox 56mm 1.2 Pro APS-C Lens Review
Since I started reviewing these Viltrox lenses in the latter part of last year, I have been more than intrigued to try one that has “Pro” in the nomenclature of the lens. So whe...
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...