Vintage Photography from Analog to Zeiss
Shutter-Chatter is back with this great piece by Robert Ryan. Robert takes us on a journey through Rajasthan, India. He brings some of his favorite vintage lenses with him. Enjoy! As a long time...
The Cyclop 1 H3T-1 nightvision with the 1.5/85mm Helios lens is a very interesting piece of kit. The lens of the Cyclop 1 H3T-1 nightvision is detachable. The nightvision lens generally has a M42 mount...
Trioplan – that word alone is able to send collectors of photographica and users of manual lenses into a frenzy. The old Trioplan 100 2.8, with its soap bubble bokeh is such an adored...
vintage-camera-lenses has grown tremendously since I started the website. I thought it might be a good idea to go beyond gear reviews and historical background. Hence I would like to present the new subsection...
The Summarit 50mm 1.5 is one of the fastest classic Leica lenses, specially targeted towards photographers who wanted to shoot in dim light. It was introduced in 1949 as the successor of the Leica...
The Voigtländer Prominent is a special and very rare camera. It really was not a particularly successful camera and fewer than 4000 were manufactured during its rather short production run between 1933 and 1935....
The Industar-26M is a prime lens manufactured in the former Soviet Union in the 1950ies and 1960ies. It was the standard lens of the FED cameras (Leica screwmount copies) among others. The lenses were...
The Summicron 90 f2 is an outstanding tele lens that was introduced in 1957 and was produced both for the Leica screwmount cameras and for the Leica M cameras. The Summicron 90 has one...
Camera bags as we know them today are a rather new development. In the old days,before cameras had interchangeable lenses, they were simply protected and carried in a tight fit camera case made out...
The Elmarit 1:2.8 / 90 is an outstanding lens manufactured in Germany by Ernt Leitz for the Leica srewmount & Leica M rangefinder cameras. It was produced from 1959 until 1975. The Elmarit was...
