There is a vast amount of affordable and very good 1.4/50 lenses out there and I think the Canon new FD 50 1.4 is one of the sharpest and most affordable.
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A L-bracket is a peace of metal which serves about three functions:
For me an L-brackets has improved the everyday experience of my Sony Alpha 7 and I think too few people know about L-brackets so I want to share my experience in this post.
Continue reading Useful Accessory for the Sony Alpha 7: A L-Bracket
I wanted to see how my new FE 2/28 compares against my older manual lenses, so I ran a comparison between four lenses:
Continue reading Old against New: Zeiss 2.8/28 vs Sony FE 2/28 vs Minolta MC 2/28
I have owned the Canon FD 2.8/20 for about a year now and I am mostly happy with it’s performance. Now I got the chance to test it against the smaller and lighter Minolta MD 20mm 1:2.8. So, how do they compare?
Canon FD 2.8/20 | Minolta MD 2.8/20 | |
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Length | 62mm | 44mm |
Diameter | 78mm | 65mm |
Weight | 305g | 240g |
Filter Thread | 72mm | 55mm |
Aperture Blades | 6 | 6 |
Short focusing distance | 25cm | 25cm |
Continue reading Minolta MD 20mm 1:2.8 vs Canon FD 20mm 1:2.8 – comparison review
After I published the Minolta List several kind people offered to lent me Minolta lenses so I had a MD 2/85 and MC 1.7/85 plus several of my own lenses and made this test to see where the strengths and weaknesses of each lens are.
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I also tested foreground bokeh but the differences here were less noticeable The reason might be that my test setup wasn#t very good. You can find it here.
Continue reading 85mm comparison- Minolta, Tokina, Canon and Samyang