Hunting for beauty and balance, camera in hand
Over the last eight years or so, I've had in excess of 100 lenses, perhaps nearer 200 now. Whilst I love these old lenses, and there have been very few I've disliked entirely, I've purchased far more than I've needed. These are most likely the biggest two traps I've fallen into. 1. Thinking I needed… Continue reading Buying Vintage Lenses – The Two Biggest Traps I’ve Fallen Into
The first SLR I owned, back in 2013, was a late '70s Praktica BMS Electronic, with a Prakticar Pentacon 50mm f/1.8 lens. It turns out that whilst this wasn't the most refined SLR ever made, it was pretty reliable, and the Pentacon 50/1.8 is very decent indeed. I later went on to enjoy perhaps half… Continue reading The Fabulous 55s
A few weeks back I added to my Pentax K mount CCD DSLRs with a Samsung GX-1S, picked up on that website which shall not be named, for £35. I wanted the camera mainly, but of some interest also was the lens attached to it, a Hoya HMC Wide-Auto 24mm f/2.8. 24mm on an APS-C… Continue reading The Only Lens I’ve Ever Fixed
Before I reset my Flickr photostream a couple of years back, I had something approaching 5000 photos there. To my eternal chagrin, the one with most views by far was a picture of a handful of 80s compact film cameras. A sequel picture to that one is my second most viewed, and some 17 of… Continue reading Photographs Of Cameras And Lenses – Why Are They So Popular?
Wanting to both streamline and diversify my lenses at once, I discovered this unusual 55/1.8 M42 from Petri. The yardstick for 55/1.8 lenses in M42 mount has to be the Asahi Takumars. I've had half a dozen, and the one that's endured is a very clean Super-Takumar. In the past I've also had a Fujinon… Continue reading Petri CC Auto 55mm f/1.8 M42 Lens – First Thoughts
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