Introduction The Tessar is a very old design (1902), actually one of the oldest optical designs of all consumer lenses. It was produced before WWII for the first Contax rangefinder cameras and early Exakta cameras and post-war both in East and West Germany for several other camera brands. Fun Fact 1: In 1932, when Leica … Continue reading Review: Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm F/2.8
Introduction This Leica Summilux-M 50mm 1.4 Asph is definitely among Leica’s most famous M-mount lenses. When it had been released in 2004 there was nothing quite like it. A compact fast 50mm rangefinder lens with aspherical element and floating elements design? You could not find this anywhere else. But – maybe unlike some of the … Continue reading Review: Leica 50mm 1.4 Summilux-M Asph
Introduction Some of you may not know that before producing FD mount lenses and SLR cameras Canon also manufactured rangefinder lenses and cameras, leading to a line-up of no less than 59 different LTM (Leica Thread Mount also known as M39) lenses between 1946 and 1964. These lenses are fully compatible to Leica M cameras … Continue reading Review: Canon 50mm 1.2 LTM
Introduction The MS-Optical 50mm 1.1 Sonnetar is probably Miyazaki’s most famous lens. While it wasn’t his first lens it was to my knowledge the first one that was produced in “greater” quantities and widely recognized across the globe. As is still typical today for his lenses it is small, fast and quirky, so let us … Continue reading Review: MS-Optical 50mm 1.1 Sonnetar
Introduction A 50mm 1.4 Tilt lens? Some of you might be having a Deja Vu now, as just recently I reviewed the AstrHori 50mm 1.4 Tilt lens. This TTArtisan 50mm 1.4 Tilt features a completely different optical and mechanical design though, so let’s find out together in this review which is the better lens. Sample … Continue reading Review: TTArtisan 50mm 1.4 Tilt