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
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
Legacy Lens Review: Konica Hexanon AR 57mm f1.4 May 28, 2023 (May 28, 2023) BSmith “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 May 1, 2023 (May 1, 2023) BSmith An ordinary lens, if used only for making ordinary photographs.
Legacy Lens Review: Minolta MD Zoom 28-85mm f3.5-4.5 February 19, 2023 (February 19, 2023) BSmith “If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.” -Ayn Rand
Legacy Lens Review: Super-Takumar 28mm f3.5 February 4, 2023 (February 4, 2023) BSmith 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. January 21, 2023 (December 9, 2024) BSmith “Great battles are won with artillery.” -Napoleon Bonaparte
Legacy Lens Review: Topcor 3.5cm f2.8 January 12, 2023 (January 15, 2023) BSmith “The horror…The horror.” – Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, Apocalypse Now
Legacy Lens Review: Nikkor ED 180mm f2.8 Ai-s December 18, 2022 (December 18, 2022) BSmith “Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.” -Marc Riboud
From the B-side: A New Category December 18, 2022 BSmith “What the heck is it, Edgar?” -Beatrice, Men In Black
Legacy Lens Review: Nikkor 50mm f2 Ai October 26, 2022 (October 26, 2022) BSmith “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” — Leonardo da Vinci
Legacy Lens Review: Vivitar 55mm f2.8 macro August 7, 2022 (September 1, 2022) BSmith Seriously? A Vivitar?
Legacy Lens Review: Konica Hexanon AR 50mm f1.7 July 22, 2022 (July 22, 2022) BSmith Better than I expected.
Legacy Lens Review: Zoom-Nikkor 35-135mm f3.5-4.5 Ai-s May 26, 2022 (June 3, 2022) BSmith Not bad…Not great, but not bad.
Legacy Lens Review: Zoom-Nikkor 80-200mm f4 Ai-s April 24, 2022 (June 3, 2022) BSmith 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 February 23, 2022 (April 24, 2022) BSmith I was pleasantly surprised.
Legacy Lens Review: Minolta 35-70mm f3.5 December 26, 2021 (December 26, 2021) BSmith Minolta really got it right with this one.
Legacy Lens Review: Minolta Rokkor-X 45mm f2 May 30, 2021 (May 30, 2021) BSmith An overlooked underdog.
Legacy Lens Review: Meyer-Optik Görlitz Domiron 50mm f2 April 18, 2021 (April 18, 2021) BSmith Surprise! -The Universe
Legacy Lens Review: Minolta MC Rokkor-PF 58mm f1.4 January 29, 2021 (March 2, 2022) BSmith My dear, need has nothing to do with it.
Legacy Lens Review: Nikkor 24mm f2.8 Ais January 19, 2021 (March 2, 2022) BSmith Always in the bag. Always.
Legacy Lens Review: Pentax Super-Takumar 50mm f1.4 December 23, 2020 (March 2, 2022) BSmith Sir, I’m going to have to ask you to put down the can of WD-40 and step away from the lens.