Introduction With the release of Sony’s first A7 series camera we saw a renaissance of many legacy lenses from “dead” mounts like Canon FD, Olympus OM, Minolta SR and several more. Because of flange focal distance issues these lenses often couldn’t be attached to modern DSLRs. And even if it was possible, it was a … Continue reading The best fullframe mirrorless camera for adapting manual focus lenses
As some of you have noticed, beginning of 2023 I set up a Discord server for the Phillipreeve.net community and I am happy to report that there are many active members and it allowed me to be closer to the community as well. Also some memes have been exchanged/created and I thought for those that … Continue reading Discord Meme Selection
This Harman Phoenix 200 is said to be a newly designed colour negative analogue film that hit the market in early 2024. Many people did not expect anyone except for Kodak and Fuji even being able to produce a (new) color negative film, so it created quite the buzz. I am all for more competition, … Continue reading Analogue Adventures – Part 33: Harman Phoenix 200
Introduction I guess you did not expect to see a comparison of fast 55-58mm f/1.2 to f/1.4 lenses for Nikon F-mount in 2024, but I also did not expect to see Cosina releasing a new F-mount lens in 2023, so here we are. We will be looking at the Nikon 55mm 1.2 Ai, the first … Continue reading Comparison: Fast 55/58mm f/1.2 | f/1.4 Manual Fullframe Lenses for F-mount
Introduction When Sony released the first affordable fullframe camera with the A7 in 2013 almost none of the enthusiast photographers were aware of issues related to filter stack differences. Filter stack describes what is in front of the sensor and different manufacturers decided to go for different thicknesses here that can influence how our lenses … Continue reading Different Filter Stacks and what they mean for us: Sony E | Nikon Z | Leica M | Kolari UT