Legacy Lens Archives - The Noisy Shutter

Legacy Lens Review: Vivitar Series 1 19-35mm f3.5-4.5 AF

September 25, 2024 BSmith

“I sing my heart out to the wide open spaces 
I sing my heart out to the infinite sea 
I sing my vision to the sky-high mountains 
I sing my song to the free.”
-Pete Townshend

Legacy Lens Review: Nikkor-O 35mm f2 Pre-Ai

July 15, 2024 BSmith

“Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson

Legacy Lens Review: Pentax Super-Takumar 105mm f2.8

March 31, 2024 BSmith

“A great man is always willing to be little.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Finally! A Pentax 6×7

February 27, 2024 BSmith

“Welcome, Lord Vader. This is an unexpected pleasure.”
-Moff Jerjerrod, Star Wars Episode VI, Return of the Jedi

Legacy Lens Review: Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm f1.8 QBM

February 20, 2024 (March 31, 2024) BSmith

Happiness is German engineering, Italian cooking, and Belgian chocolate.
-Patricia Briggs

Classic Camera Review: Pentax Spotmatic ES II

January 17, 2024 (January 17, 2024) BSmith

“After all, the thing that looks most ordinary might be the thing that leads you to victory.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

From the B-Side: Extension Tubes

September 13, 2023 (September 13, 2023) BSmith

“Express gratitude for the greatness of small things.”
-Richie Norton

Classic Camera Review: Pentax Spotmatic F

September 4, 2023 BSmith

“Only when your eye, heart and soul shine brighter than the sun, you realize how ordinary it is to love the beautiful, and how beautiful it is to love the ordinary.”
― Marius Vieth

Legacy Lens Review: Olympus Zuiko 65-200mm F/4

August 19, 2023 BSmith

“Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.”
-Yousuf Karsh

Legacy Lens Review: Minolta MC Rokkor-PF 55mm f1.7

August 7, 2023 (August 16, 2023) BSmith

“I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.”
-Joan Miró

Classic Camera Review: Olympus OM-4

July 22, 2023 BSmith

“The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One’s immortal head Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount, Olympus trembled.”
-Homer