Stop sitting on my glass
In the least dramatic reveal for some time, I mentioned at the end of my Sony 16-35mm f/2.8 GM review that I d already placed an order to hire the Mark II version. In that review I noted that, despite my lack of love for wide angle, the Mark I version has great image quality, but [ ]
forty A series of reviews of lenses that have an equivalent focal length of 40mm, which is the best focal length (don t @ me). This is the first in the series. I mentioned before that I bought the Lumix GX800 camera and then wanted some small, cheap lenses. I was very pleased when it turned [ ]
I was walking from a playground to fetch coffee for me, my wife and the parents of another couple when I was idly browsing the internet. I read a piece about affordable Sony primes and saw the 85mm being lauded. I was a bit unsure about 85mm; to that point I d been a 35mm-50mm man. [ ]
I m a bit of a sucker for a zoom lens. I don t mean I love them; I mean I buy them. My joint first lens for a removable lens camera was the Canon EF 55-200mm 4.5/5.6 II USM which I could probably sum up as not very good . But I still bought it thinking I [ ]
I feel bad about wide angle. Well maybe not bad, but like I m missing something; as if it s something I should be better at. I am not a massive fan. There s too much in the frame; too much to get right. I ve been trying with the Olympus 9-18mm (more on that soon). I can cope [ ]
This is a tough one. Not just because Tamron model names have a ludicrous number of letters. I’ve long been aware that my Sony APS-C sensor (for me the camera models starting with a 6) lack a general-purpose zoom lens. I’ve not really fancied paying the price for the 16-55mm Sony f/2.8, and the 16-50mm [ ]
It s the law of any camera format that you have to have a 50mm ish equivalent lens, i.e. one that has the same field of view, roughly, as a 50mm lens on a full-frame (35mm film) camera. We can have an extremely unedifying debate about what a Normal lens ; the short version is it should, [ ]
Retro fit The retrofit series features lenses from before the digital camera era being used on modern cameras. This is the fourth post in the series. You may remember the article on the Carl Zeiss Jena 50mm DDR lens. It was broken, but some of the images still worked out quite nicely. In June I [ ]
I ve written about purchasing the Samyang 45mm as my first full-frame Sony lens, and how much I like it. In 2021, knowing I d be going to a leaving do and that it was one of my first large events since COVID first hit us, I purchased the wider, smaller and slower 35mm lens. Mount Sony [ ]
The Lumix 12-32mm is an immensely impressive lens; light, decent and very cheap. The price to pay for this is it s pretty slow; f/3.5-f/5.6, so particularly at the far end it s hard to use indoors. Remember too that micro four thirds equivalent depth of field is twice that of a full-frame sensor, so a f/5.6 [ ]