Archive for the ‘lenses’ Category
February 14, 2019

It does look Barnack-ish!
First impressions on a new, old lens.

Leica Summaron-M f/5.6 28 mm
It comes with a historically correct, humongous hood that I will keep in the presentation box in expectation of appreciation. The lens is deeply recessed into it’s pancake housing, anyway.
Leica did something left-of-center with this lens. It is a reissue of a fifties screw mount lens, this time with coated lenses, M bayonet, 6-bit-coding and slight updates in the engravings. The optical formula they left alone! So it renders like it’s 1955!

Heavy vignetting at f/5.6
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Tags:Leica, lens, rangefinder, review, Summaron-M f/5.6 28 mm, wide-angle
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August 25, 2018

Diffraction stars at f/3.4. Wait, what?
Uh-oh!

En route to a workshop in Neuss, I went by the Leitz-Park again.
In the Leica Store on the premises, they had a used Summarit-M f/2.5 50 mm that I couldn’t resist buying. (more…)
Tags:50 mm f/2.5, black & white, digital, Leica, lens, photography, pictures, review, Summarit
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July 4, 2018

GAS in the kitchen!
If you forego the current version of Nikon’s 24 – 70 mm f/2.8 Pro zoom and instead get the version before that, you can save a lot of money. I did when I got a used Nikon AF-S Nikkor 24- 70 mm f/2.8 G ED the day before yesterday. Been putting it to the test since, here are some first results:
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Tags:Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz, lenses, Nikon, Nikon AF-S Nikkor 24- 70 mm f/2.8 G ED, Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8 E ED VR, photography, photos, zoom
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May 27, 2018

By the hood, you can see (more…)
Tags:bo'keh, Fujifim, lens, photography, review, X-series, XF 35 mm f/1.4 R
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April 30, 2018

“There are fields, Neo, endless fields where plants are no longer born …”
A photographer I know and trust recommended mirrorlesss system cameras and criticized Nikon and Canon harshly for not being on top of their game. The two DSLR giants are lacking attractive offers in this market segment dominated by Sony, Olympus, Fujifilm and Panasonic. Even Leica and Hasselblad have interesting, though expensive EVIL cameras (electronic viewfinder, interchangeable lens) on offer!
On the other hand, (more…)
Tags:Fujifilm, photography, picture quality, pictures, review, X-H1
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May 12, 2012

Pensive at the Fast Food Restaurant
These are heady times for photo gear geeks like me. The day before yesterday, Leica announced
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Tags:arts, lens, Nikkor 105 DC, photography, portrait
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May 5, 2012

The Nikon 1 V1 camera body pales in comparison to the huge 1 Nikkor VR 10-100mm f/4.5-5.6 PD-Zoom lens. And yes, I black out all my cameras with a sharpie pen. Didn’t stick on the “1” though 😉
The second lens I got for my
Nikon 1 V1 EVIL camera was the Nikkor VR 10-100mm f/4.5-5.6 PD-Zoom lens. As you can see, this is no longer a compact camera system now,
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Tags:gadgets, Nikkor VR 10-100mm f/4.5-5.6 PD-Zoom lens, Nikon, Nikon 1, Nikon 1 V1, photography, technology
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