“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: Vivitar Series 1 19-35mm f3.5-4.5 AF
Tag: Lens Review
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
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
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.
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
Legacy Lens Review: Nikkor 50mm f2 Ai
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
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.
Legacy Lens Review: Minolta Rokkor-X 45mm f2
An overlooked underdog.
Legacy Lens Review: Meyer-Optik Görlitz Domiron 50mm f2
Surprise! -The Universe
Legacy Lens Review: Minolta MC Rokkor-PF 58mm f1.4
My dear, need has nothing to do with it.
Legacy Lens Review: Nikkor 24mm f2.8 Ais
Always in the bag. Always.
Legacy Lens Review: Pentax Super-Takumar 50mm f1.4
Sir, I’m going to have to ask you to put down the can of WD-40 and step away from the lens.