Shooters.

Another year goes by. There was hardly a day, when I didn’t take at least one picture. Looking through all the images I realise, it’s been quite a European year. Didn’t cross an ocean in the last 365 days physically and didn’t miss it.
Looking through the images I also realise, how many cameras I’ve been using this year. Some were cool (actually most of them were), some I couldn’t really relate to or get warm with and with some I fell in love as far as love for cameras can go.

I haven’t been writing a lot recently as you know. The reason is, after all that testing and reviewing I needed to take care of my photography instead of cameras and lenses. I found myself doing test-images and forgetting about the primary goal of this blog: the everyday, reallife-use of photographic equipment. I’ve been actually testing quite a few cameras and lenses in the meantime, but with an emphasis rather on their fun-factor than on their high ISO-performance or technical image quality. I’ll give you my impressions of such things as the Canon EOS 60D or the Sony SLT A55 in the next days.

For now I’d like to give you a short summary of which cameras caught my heart or mind and which ones didn’t. (Read on after the break!) weiter lesen

When it comes to a compact combo, this is the way to go. The small leica lens feels great on the Nex, it feels much better than any other lens I’ve tried on that camera.

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When I first heard of the Sony Nex and the ability to use lenses of different manufacturers on it via adapters, I was thrilled. The original Sony lens choice for the Nex cameras is really small. And since Photokina was a big disappointment – Nex owners only got a lens plan, but no actual lenses – we have to rely on the offerings of other manufacturers for the time being.

BUT, after testing a couple of more and less expensive lenses with Nikon- and Leica-M-mount I didn’t feel all that thrilled anymore: I got more flexibility, but not that much of a quality improvement over the kit-lens.
(I still owe you my Leica M-Summarit 35/2.5 on the Nex, but that’s only, because I wasn’t amazed by the performance of this combo.)

That has definitly changed recently. I got the chance to use the now “old” Nikon AF-D 60/2.8 Macro on the Nex. To say the least, my hopes were rather modest. But this time I was proven wrong.

Here’s the master of the Nex! (Read on after the break.)

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Since I got my Kipon Sony E-Mount to Nikon lens adapter I was eager to try out different lenses on the Sony. I did so recently with some Nikon lenses and basically felt pretty much disappointed (see for yourself here).
For a couple of days now Lightroom 3 is supporting the RAW files from the Nex and so I thought I’d give it another try.

This time I wanted to know how these lenses are performing on the Nex – Kipon combination at different aperture settings and how they compare to the Sony kit-lens, the 18-55/3.5-5.6 OSS:

• Nikon AF-D 35/2
• Zeiss Distagon T* ZF 35/2
• Sigma 50/2.8 Macro
• Nikon AF 85/1.8

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