Tag: gear
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What’s with my filter-size obsession, anyway?
This is where things started to become really problematic. I managed to get a 19mm 85A for the Elmar, and a nice Leica 39mm for my Summicron. However, I was now considering looking at other lenses that were faster, longer, and wider. Additionally, I was considering using color filters to improve my black and white…
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Finding My Focal Lengths
I wrote yesterday about the process of selecting the lenses I use on my M mount cameras. A lot of that dealt with how I ended up with 50mm and 90mm lenses, and how they proved not to work for me. My original plan for my four lenses were four lenses split over two sets…
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The Four Lens Kit, a retrospective
As a software hacker, I was always taught the value of taking a historical look at ones decisions during a project, in order to improve either the next stage of that project, or the next project entirely. For that reason, I feel compelled to critique my lens decisions over the last two and a half…