the last word

A few days ago, I wrote this post, which attempted to make the case that slower, lighter lenses were — by and large —  a better match for modern full frame mirrorless cameras than the traditional faster ones. I got a lot of pushback. I dealt with the equivalence argument here. Another line of attack… [Read More]

Thinking about top-notch f/4 lenses nudged me into compiling a list –admittedly biased by my experience, and thoroughly incomplete – of exemplary, and mostly pricy, f/4 full frame lenses. Some no longer produced, some current, and some I’d like to see made in Sony FE mount form. Past Leica 280/4 Apo-Telyt-R. This was a special… [Read More]

In Tuesday’s post, I made a pitch for more high-quality slowish lenses on full frame mirrorless cameras. I also posted most of my little soliloquy on dpr. Over there, a good time seemed to be had by all; more than a hundred responses in the first 20 hours. One of those respondents took me to… [Read More]

Since the film era, both Canon and Nikon have offered a line of lenses aimed at professional photographers and amateurs with similar intent and deep pockets. One of the hallmarks of those lens lines was a constant (unchanging with focal length in zoom lenses) aperture of f/2.8 or faster. There’s the f/2.8 standard zoom trio:… [Read More]