B&W Fine Art Photography
B&W Fine Art Photography
Every time I was out shopping for a legacy (or just plain old) lens I had to dig through piles of old magazines and bookmarks to find the info I wanted. Especially dimensions and optical scheme of an old lens are often two difficult data to track down. So I started collecting all these specs …
A couple weeks ago Kai of DigitalRev, with the help of Bellamy of JapanCameraHunter, did a video on the “5 top film cameras for under $1000”. Interesting, but having grown up shooting film in my opinion they got two major things wrong.
Tilt lenses are very popular these days, often for the cheesy (IMHO) effects they let you achieve. But they can be indeed extremely useful in both portrait and landscape 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 are into architectural or landscape photography you will love this tiny lens. It’s really sharp at every aperture, just a tiny bit foggy at full speed (typical of designs without aspherical elements). The contrast is nowere in the range of the Contax lenses, but this in my book it is a blessing because …