B&W Fine Art Photography
B&W Fine Art Photography
A.k.a. “The lens which came in from the cold” Russians have a way with glass. Assuming your sample has not been assembled by a still drunk worker on a Monday morning (or so the legend goes), the quality is often way better than it should, especially when you factor in the price.
First of all: please note that I don’t currently own a full-frame camera (hello Sony? Still waiting for that 50 Mpxl, Nex7 form-factor camera…), so this lens has been tested only on (and specifically bought for) an Aps-c Sony Nex 7. That said, from the full-resolution images I saw online shot on the A7r it …
This lens gets a lot of bad press. From the moment its younger sibling, the FLE version, hit the shelves the older version became regarded automatically almost as if it were trash. Don’t get me wrong, the CF FLE is better, just look at the MTF charts. The FLE has two more elements – 9 vs …
Today we’ll talk about an old timer, the Nikkor 20mm f/3,5 UD. It is a pre-Ai (or non-Ai, if you prefer) lens from the late ’60, and it certainly shows. It is beautifully crafted, something you have to handle to fully appreciate it. Even the lens cap is amazing: a single piece of what I …
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 not even near to the quality that we are accustomed to in the wide-angle range nowadays. Not that is …
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 …