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Perhaps this picture taken on full frame illustrates some of what this lens is.  The image deteriorates going out from the center.  But, depending on the scene, the deterioration is not ...

I agree with this completely and yet it's a lens I use on occasion and sometimes get images with that I like.  I have other lenses that aren't that good either and I never seem to get around to ...

I would agree with that.  I left the infinity post, it was the close focus post I removed.  I still have it if I ever want to put it back in.

That's what I did (M4/3 adapter in my case).  I just used a belt sander.  I ended up taking a little too much off but it was easy to adjust the lens.  It's been a few years so I don't remember ...

I like the lens, still learning how to use it.  I have the f/3.5 version, came across one at KEH and pulled the trigger on it.  Seems to me that it would go quite nicely with your camera.  F/8, ...

I hope the Sigma suits you well.  It's been about a year and a half now since I picked up a Z5.  What I have found most enjoyable is the opportunity for wider compositions.  It's like  I had a ...

At Bartlett Arboretum in Belle Plaine, Kansas, USA. Voigtlander 21mm f/3.5 Minolta MC Rokkor 28mm f/2.5

I haven't bought many lenses lately so I haven't been following prices but it seems to me that with Canon and Nikon moving to mirrorless there are many more cameras around now that have the ...

I have the Mitakon. It is small and handles very nicely. But I'm not fond of the color rendition.

I too appreciate this post, the referenced article, and the ensuing discussion. It seems there is an additional element that is sometimes present in photography: images that are from the spirit ...

There are a couple of things I find myself curious about.  It does seem to me that my Jupiter 8 is now a better lens than it was before this treatment.  It's not known (at least to me) that this ...

A few years back I bought a Minolta 28mm f/2.5 lens and also picked up one of the Ikea lamps to de-yellow the lens.  More recently the images from my 1958 Jupiter 8 50mm lens seemed to me to be a ...

I recognize that this will not interest most photographers but the question is if there are ANY uses for DX. I have a Z5 that I use with adapted manual lenses but I don't have an 85mm lens. DX ...

I'm curious also if they will come up with something innovative in a small camera.

First of all I have great respect for different ways of photography so this is not a matter of claiming one way is better than another. I have sometimes read of a preference for zoom lenses because ...

I tried it a few years ago, bought two rolls of B&W film that Walgreens would process, ran one through a Minolta SRT201 and another through a Canon AE-1.  It was fun but I came to the conclusion ...

If you want to stay well, don't look at Minolta Rokkors or any Soviet made lenses.  And don't even think about a full frame mirrorless camera to take a walk on the wide side of these fine old lenses. ...

Actually the Garden of Eden is in Lucas, Kansas along with all kinds of folk art, grassroots art.  It's not very far off of I-70 if you are driving through and enjoy this sort of thing.

Never been to Louisiana, it's on the far side of Missouri from me but I've been through Nevada several times.  The town of Nevada is pronounced differently than the state, what about Louisiana?

Perhaps a little off topic but here is a picture I took a number of years ago when I was driving to your neck of the woods on my way to visit some friends near Windyville.  I don't remember if ...