“You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”
-Alan Watts
A Look at the Effects of Maximum Aperture
Tag: Legacy Lens
Classic Camera Review: Olympus OM-1n
“Make a picture, make a friend.”
-Joe McNally
Pentax P3 Goes to Tennessee
“They say that Virginia is the mother of Texas. We never knew who the father was, but we kinda suspected Tennessee.”
-Tex Ritter
Legacy Lens Review: Minolta AF Reflex 500mm f8
“It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits, and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.”
-Aristotle
Classic Camera Review: Pentax ME Super
“Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru
Classic Camera Review: Minolta XE-1
“I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.”
-Vincent Van Gogh
Classic Camera Review: Mamiya/Sekor 1000DTL
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation”.
-Herman Melville
Classic Camera Review: Olympus XA
“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”
-Mark Twain
Classic Camera Review: Contax 139 Quartz
“My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.”
-Steve McCurry
Legacy Lens Review: Vivitar Series 1 19-35mm f3.5-4.5 AF
“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
“Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
Legacy Lens Review: Pentax Super-Takumar 105mm f2.8
“A great man is always willing to be little.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Finally! A Pentax 6×7
“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
Happiness is German engineering, Italian cooking, and Belgian chocolate.
-Patricia Briggs
Classic Camera Review: Pentax Spotmatic ES II
“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
“Express gratitude for the greatness of small things.”
-Richie Norton
Classic Camera Review: Pentax Spotmatic F
“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
“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
“I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.”
-Joan Miró
Classic Camera Review: Olympus OM-4
“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
Legacy Lens Review: Konica Hexanon AR 57mm f1.4
“How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Legacy Lens Review: Canon FDn 70-210mm f4 Zoom
An ordinary lens, if used only for making ordinary photographs.
Legacy Lens Review: Minolta MD Zoom 28-85mm f3.5-4.5
“If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.”
-Ayn Rand
Legacy Lens Review: Super-Takumar 28mm f3.5
I hope I am in similar shape when I am that age. Ok, maybe not heavy and round, but you get what I mean.
From the B-Side: Nikon Lens Scope Converter
Neither tool nor toy, it is a bit of both. There really should be a word for that.