B&W Fine Art Photography
B&W Fine Art Photography
I’ve been thinking for a while to glue it on the Canon 5d mark II…and that should tell you something! It’s really the lens that you will reach in your bag more often that not, unless you shoot Nascar or Formula 1… Scary sharp, contrasty, doesn’t know what the flare is even if you are …
Today I wish to talk about one of the best, if not THE best, cameras I ever used. I’m speaking about the Fuji GS 645, a 4,5×6 medium format rangefinder camera that will fit in your pocket. And without having to sacrify anything. This camera has one of the sharpest lenses ever and a classic …
It focuses smooth as butter after over 30 years of use. And it is one of the sharpest lens I ever used. Period. Unfortunately it will mount, because of the short focal plane/flange distance, only on the Minolta manual cameras, or, with an adapter, on the Olympus and Sony Nex mirrorless. I’ve adapted it on …
A very cheap, all plastic, toy lens, that neverthless performs marvellously. The only problem, but this will change from sample to sample, is a big lack of consistency when focusing at full aperture, that one cannot even correct in camera because it varies randomly from front focus to backfocus and in intensity. It will blows …
My sample came well beaten up, with the filter ring bented and the focus ring locked. I repaired it by myself with a couple of hammer blows. Now it works like a charm. Unbelievably small and compact for a SLR lens it is, like every almost other normal lens, a wonderful performer. Even if, for …
Picture from Nikon.com Built like a little tank, but with a stiff focusing ring (compared to the manual version tested above), it’s not one of my favourite lenses. It is very sharp, whit an higher contrast respect the old Non-Ai version, but the images have a less pleasing and distinctive look. Not bad, indeed a …