“Express gratitude for the greatness of small things.”
-Richie Norton
From the B-Side: Extension Tubes
Tag: Legacy Lens
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.
Legacy Lens Review: Canon 50mm f1.4 FD and S.S.C.
“Great battles are won with artillery.”
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Legacy Lens Review: Topcor 3.5cm f2.8
“The horror…The horror.”
– Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, Apocalypse Now
Legacy Lens Review: Nikkor ED 180mm f2.8 Ai-s
“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”
-Marc Riboud
From the B-side: A New Category
“What the heck is it, Edgar?”
-Beatrice, Men In Black
Fungus Among Us: Does It Matter?
“Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.”
-Emily Dickinson
Legacy Lens Review: Nikkor 50mm f2 Ai
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
Legacy Lens Review: AF Nikkor 300mm f4
Yes, Mr. Wayne, it comes in black.
Legacy Lens Review: Vivitar 55mm f2.8 macro
Seriously? A Vivitar?
Legacy Lens Review: Konica Hexanon AR 50mm f1.7
Better than I expected.
Legacy Lens Review: Zoom-Nikkor 35-135mm f3.5-4.5 Ai-s
Not bad…Not great, but not bad.
Legacy Lens Review: Zoom-Nikkor 80-200mm f4 Ai-s
Yes, I know what I said about vintage zoom lenses…but this is an exception. Another…exception.
Legacy Lens Review: Nikkor 35-105mm f3.5-4.5 Ai-s
I was pleasantly surprised.
Legacy Lens Review: Minolta 35-70mm f3.5
Minolta really got it right with this one.
In Defense of the Project
Photographic projects are fun and build skills.
Legacy Lens Review: Minolta Rokkor-X 45mm f2
An overlooked underdog.