B&W Fine Art Photography
B&W Fine Art Photography
The 50mm focal is one of the ones I like the most. Besides, it’s really hard to get a bad 50mm, because the manufacturers have found fool-proof recipes since the dawn of time. So even an old lens should perform splendidly, and the biggest differences with more modern designs should be lack of autofocus and …
If you’ve not read this previous post so far give it a skim: Best film scanner: Canon 5D Mark II vs Drum Scanner vs Epson v700 You will see what level of (very high) quality you can expect using a digital camera as a scanner, as long as you setup everything nice and properly aligned …
I received one of this with a Pentax Super-Takumar 50mm f/1,4 I bought some time ago. I warn you, this will be a very short review… This converter, for all intents and purposes, simply sucks. This, of course, at least used with the above mentioned Pentax 50mm f/1,4 Super-Takumar. Really, I’ve never seen anything worst. …
If you shoot film and you don’t are much into chemicals, or don’t have a basement in which to keep a gigantic 5×7″ enlarger, you’ll soon end up with the need of a way to import those beautiful pictures you’ve taken on the computer. What? Why I didn’t say straight on “you will need a …
There are a few variants of this lens. The one reviewed here is the first version, that sports 8 elements instead of 7 and does not have a radioactive one (so no yellowing). The legend goes that this is the one with the best bokeh of the various 50/1,4 Pentax, and maybe the sharper. Actually …
When you walk in the woods in winter, with your trusted pair of snowshoes, you usually try to travel light. It has been proved that walking with the snowshoes, while it’s a lot of fun, makes you spend 30% more energy; so we tend to travel as light as possible. And giving that we cannot avoid to …