Why would anyone in their right mind want to use old lenses on their shiny new high-performance DSLR or mirrorless camera? The simple answer is that some older lenses can capture images that have that elusive quality known as character.
Many of us desire to own at least one super fast lens! It doesn’t really matter if it’s worth it or not, we are just drawn to the speed and the idea of owning an F1.2 lens. The problem is that most of such lenses are pretty expensive, even the vintage ones, but in this review I’ll be taking a closer look at what might be the cheapest F1.2 lens with full frame …
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A fellow filmmaker & great blogger Peter Prevec (website & twitter) shared his flare lens test (see video below) where he’s compared a bunch of completely different lenses to see what kind of flares the produced .Everyone’s opinion is different, but I’ll agree with Peter that MIR-1 produced some of the nicest flares you could imagine only challenged by …
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The Pentacon 135 2.8 is a very compact telephoto lens which offers good image quality at a very reasonable price. It was the standard telephoto lens from Pentacon and was manufactured extensively in east Germany by Pentacon.
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Vintage lenses like this can provide a very cost-effective route into astrophotography. I’ve used a number of different ones of between 24mm and …