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Welcome Alex! As you will have found, I've programmed the BB to alter one or two camera names - and you have so many I think you used all but one! The reason for this is to make it not so comfortable to start entire threads about different makes, or constantly refer to them. It doesn't prevent the p...

What date? Intro2020, the UK importers, have not released any news of this. I guess I should have searched, as I have gone to print suggesting this and they have done it already. I did this about 30 years ago, using a Komura 105mm f2.5 lens which could be easily dismantled and have custom apertures ...

It can be pushed back to focus on infinity, the main problem with portraits is to keep the focal plane more or less right - easy to get it skewed, not so easy to make it parallel. I am suggesting in my first review, which appears in Master Photo Digital, that Lensbaby should make multi-perforated ap...

I've been testing the Lensbaby 3G, which I thought was a bit of a rip-off for a magnifying glass on a rubber bellows. How wrong I was! It turns out to be a cemented low-dispersion doublet designed to produce a really sharp image core even at f2, the maximum aperture. I will be posting a review of th...

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