“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
Legacy Lens Review: Minolta AF Reflex 500mm f8
Tag: Lens Review
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
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.