There’s an odd misconception about the use of Leica cameras that I often get challenged with - especially on social media. As someone who frequently uses 3rd-party lenses on my ...
25 February, 2019
Understanding Shutter Speed, Aperture, Film Speed (ISO) & The Relationship Between Them
I’ve thought about covering off some of the basic principles of photography a few times on this website, but often find myself coming to the conclusion that someone else will ha...
For the longest time I coveted a 50mm f/1.4 Nikkor AIS. This yearning began in art school, where photography was the family member that drank too much at Thanksgiving and was co...
4 January, 2019
Asahi Takumar 24mm Lens on a Leica M2 – by Andrew Morang
When I travel overseas and need to pack light, I often take my Leica M2 rangefinder camera with compact 35mm and 50mm f/2.0 Summicron lenses (along with light meter, filters, an...
15 July, 2018
Three 50mm lenses that fit my needs (video)
Following my recent Canon 50mm 1.4 ltm review, a couple of friendly comments were made at the end of episode 26 of The Classic Lenses Podcast about why I wasn’t keeping the lens...
For my approach to photography I find that 50mm makes sense for a lens with the greatest capacity for intimacy in an image. 90mm is my go-to for street composition involving lar...
One of my first rangefinder lenses was the 50mm f0.95 Noctilux, which offers one of the most extreme light gathering apertures available to commercial photographers. I used this...
I started down this road with the hope of finding a classic 50mm Sonnar lens that somehow shone out in awesomeness above and beyond any other classic 50mm Sonnar lenses that I m...