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Magic @ 1.2: The Canon FD 55 1.2
January 4, 2019
Shooting at F-stop 1.2 is new to me. It’s a tricky proposition. With a manual lens, even trickier. Indeed, in the short bit that I’ve had the Canon FD 55 1.2, I’ve found that nailing down a portrait at 1.2 is no easy task and not for the impatient (and I’m quite used to shooting […]
Tokina Power Tower – The Tokina AT-X M100 PRO DX
September 6, 2018
I can start this article in two ways. The first way is more intelligent, given that my wife may or may not read this post. This first way would be to explain that I needed another portrait lens for one of my film cameras – the Nikon F100. There, done. I’ve only been shooting with […]
Meet the Minolta 58 1.4
April 26, 2018
Here’s one week and one lens. Purely personal work here. The location is not exotic but I’d argue the images are. People are not included (and I love to photograph people) but it’s a lovely little tribute to my late 1960s Minolta Rokkor MC 58 1.4 and to how much the weather and world shifts […]
Give Me Film or Give Me D… D… Digital!
February 4, 2018
Film is alive. I think. Kodak Ektachrome is now back! The once popular and visually distinctive 35mm film so often seen in the pages of National Geographic was discontinued in 2013. At the time, it appeared that another death nail had been driven into the spine of analog as the Rise of the Machine and the Age […]