{"id":4261,"date":"2016-07-25T15:38:02","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T14:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phillipreeve.net\/blog\/?p=4261"},"modified":"2016-07-25T16:10:48","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T15:10:48","slug":"manual-photographers-series-part-0-1-phillip-reeve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phillipreeve.net\/blog\/manual-photographers-series-part-0-1-phillip-reeve\/","title":{"rendered":"The Manual Photographers Series Part 0.1: Phillip Reeve"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the first part of a new series in which we portrait amateur\u00a0photographers just like us who inspire us and\u00a0who share our passion for photographing with manual lenses.<\/em><\/p>\n

We decided to test our concept on ourselves first, initially we didn’t intend to publish it but since we\u00a0liked the product we decided to publish it. So don’t be surprised by me answering my own questions ;).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Hi Phillip,<\/strong>
\n can you tell us a little bit about yourself and how\u00a0you came to use manual lenses?
\n<\/strong>P:\u00a0<\/strong>I am a student from Germany and I bought my first DSLR in 2006. In September 2011 I bought a used Nex-3 for a little over 100\u20ac to use some of the cheap\u00a0Minolta Rokkors I owned on a digital camera. I fell in love with my manual lenses instantly. Suddenly I could afford really good primes while before I was limited to slow, cheap zooms! So much more creative freedom.
\nI also enjoyed the new, slower but more conscious process and I saw a very quick progression in my own skills at that time. I hardly touched my Canon after that.
\nI was a gear-head before but now I could discover so many thousands of manual lenses no one had really tested on a digital camera ever before so I started my quest to discover learn as much about those manual lenses as possible. First I published my findings in forums until I started my own blog in early 2014 which has taught me a lot.<\/p>\n

Here are a few images from when I started to use manual lenses back in early 2012:<\/p>\n

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The Minolta MD 1.4\/50 was my first standard lens, I bought it for less than 50\u20ac.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I got the Minolta MC 4\/200 for 26\u20ac back in 2011 and it was sharper and faster than any zoom I could have bought.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Minolta MD 4\/100 bought for 80\u20ac, I used it for landscape and macro photography on this trip with very good results but I wasn’t a fan of the handling.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Can you give us a look into your camera bag and tell us a little about your gear?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Cameras<\/span><\/p>\n