Lenses

Photography lens reviews – In this section of the website, you will find reviews of lenses for all sorts of different mounts. It is often the case that lenses can only easily be used on the cameras they were designed for, so whilst reading through the reviews here, it is worth making sure any lens you might like the look of is compatible with your camera.

That being said, this is not always the case, and in sometimes lenses can be adapted or even hacked to fit on different cameras. This has become increasingly popular in recent years with some digital cameras offering a great platform for adapting some of the lenses listed below.

You can read more about lens adapting and modifications here

As with all the content on this website, if you find something of interest, you can find more similar products by clicking on the tags you will find at the bottom of the reviews.

3 April, 2020

Leica 50mm f/2 Summicron DR – Plum Blossoms – By Steven Bleistein

By Steven Bleistein

About a month before Japan’s world-famous cherry blossom season in late March, is the lesser-known plum blossom season in late February. Plum blossoms in Japan are the first hin...

11 March, 2020

Canon 50mm ƒ/1.4 LTM Lens – A Mini-Review of 1960s Optical Excellence – by Andrew Morang

By Kodachromeguy

Long-term 35MMC readers recall that I have used my dad’s Leica IIIC rangefinder camera for decades. He bought it at the Post Exchange in Guam in 1949 and used it for famil...

14 February, 2020

TTArtisan 21mm f/1.5 ASPH review – by Vincent Bihler

By vincentbihler

We are currently living a very exciting period of time. The lens market has been rencently opened with third party producers that are becoming better and better, often at a very...

10 February, 2020

Minolta 28mm f/3.5 G-Rokkor Review – Another Gem I’m Parting With

By Hamish Gill

I’ve owned this Minolta G-Rokkor 28mm f/3.5 for quite a while now - I had Bellamy find me one after I sold my Minolta TC-1 (also bought from Bellamy), the camera from which the ...

17 January, 2020

7artisans 50mm f/1.1 Long Term Review – by Simon King

By Simon King

7artisans have been producing some absolutely fantastic options in the low-budget lens department, and one of their best entries for rangefinder coupled full frame cameras is th...

11 January, 2020

Canon 50mm F1.8 LTM on A Leica T – by Ed Lara

By Photoedontheweb

As much as I enjoy shooting film, I still take the majority of my photographs with digital cameras. That said, I prefer to use cameras and lenses which give me as much simplicit...

16 December, 2019

TTArtisan 11mm f/2.8 M-Mount Fisheye lens Review

By Hamish Gill

Now I must admit, I’m not particularly into fisheye photography. Nor is a fisheye lens the first type of lens that I think of as being particularly compatible with Leica rangefi...

9 December, 2019

7Artisans 75mm f/1.25 Review – a confusion of “want” over “need”

By Hamish Gill

I thought it might be interesting to follow up my post about my “need” for Zeiss ZM lenses in my life with a post about a lens I don’t “need”, but do “want” - at least for the t...

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