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A friend of mine is interviewing and photographing people in Russia, a university project. She hasn’t used a camera before and has just bought a Nikon DSLR with a very nice Sigma f1.8 18-35mm zoom.
Clearly she failed to find anyone who knows what they are talking about, so she asked me for advice on using her camera for portraits.
Continue reading “Portraits 101”This lens is my favourite film camera lens. To be able to use it on a full frame digital camera… pure joy.
I’ve got quite a few Canon EF and FD lenses. When I bought a Sony A7 I also got Fotodiox FD and EF converters.
The first thing I did when the camera arrived was put my EF 50mm f1.4 on it. That was disappointing. Practically unusable AF. So I tried the FD 50mm 1.4 on it, and then I understood what the camera was for.
It is built for shooting with old manual lenses. You can get adaptors for M39 and M42 screw mount, Leica M, Nikon, Canon, even medium format lenses. That’s a world of lovely, characterful glass – some of it really cheap, almost all of it good value.
Continue reading “Using manual lenses on a Sony A7”Here’s my new second favourite lens*.
Here’s something you don’t see every day. It’s a 500mm reflex lens – also known as a catadioptric lens. There’s a pointless answer for you.
