I have been following the Chinese newcomer TTArtisan since the beginning with their very first lens, the 35mm f1.4 ASPH that I reviewed on 35mmc. I liked that lens for being bot...
I’m a street photographer with a preference for manual-focus 50mm-equivalent lenses. I got my start with a Zeiss Contax rangefinder (w/ 50mm Sonnar f/1.5) and Pentax MX S...
Unusually, this review has 3 authors. I (Hamish) was sent the TTArtisan 28mm f/5.6 lens to try a few months ago. Not long later, Vincent got in touch to say he was going to revi...
The Leitz Elmar 10.5cm f/6.3 - Third time's the charm! Read the exciting conclusion of my search for a pocketable telephoto lens. Don't miss the comparison of all three lenses' ...
The Mountain Nikkor covered in part 1 of this short series is a pretty unusual lens but didn't quite fit the bill in terms of compact size. The quest for a pocketable telephoto ...
The following article is once again a 3-parter but this time it explores long lenses and how they fit into my pursuit of a small and lightweight kit that covers all bases (withi...
This is a review of the Ernst Leitz (Leica) Elmar 9cm f/4 Collapsible lens. Hamish recently reviewed the huge and very fast TT Artisan 90mm 1.25. This is perhaps the antithesis ...
In the early days of my interest in Leica, what I found particularly curious was just how many 50mm lenses its users had. It used to be so simple - at first you want a lens that...
