I bought the Sony Nex-3 as a companion to the Fujifilm X100, to be able to use wider and longer lenses while keeping the bag at a reasonable size &… Read the rest

For the guys in hurry I’ll give you a sum up of this review: “holy crap!”.

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An underdog, often overlooked because of its big brother the 85mm f/1.4, that indeed performs marvellously.

But this one is however one of the best Contax lenses ever made.

100% crops. Left center, right… Read the rest

This is the classic Cinderella lens, and I use the singular instead of the plural because the Summicron-C and the Minolta M-Rokkor really are the same lens, optically speaking, even if some people state (but I… Read the rest

1 ) Minimum requirements: a tripod (unless you are willing to use a Speed Graphic type camera in the Weegee style, handheld), a large format camera with a focus screen and a back, a bunch of… Read the rest

A sweet lens, sharpen all the way and with good bokeh.

Teamed with the 45mm f/4 it was my walk-around lens.

Its main purpose, the one for what it has been designed, is the portraiture.

But… Read the rest

This one was my first Leica, and even if I eventually ended up selling it I regretted the decision right from day one.

The body of the features of the Leica M4-P are practically the same… Read the rest

I wish I could say great things of this lens, because I like it a lot.

But, despite the quite useful focal length that brings a lot of space in your photos, this Pentax lens is… Read the rest

A little, sweet lens, the most overlooked of the entire Leica (well, Minolta…) M catalog probably because of its “bubble-related” problem.

Bubbles? Yes.

There are many theories about the causes, but this lens has almost in… Read the rest

Thousand of pro use and have used this camera every days all over the world, so it has to be good, right?

And indeed it is.

But the real question is: it is good enough?

Don’t… Read the rest