The Film Retriever

So, recently I ended up having loads of spare time on my hands and thought about setting up a small project to keep me busy. I purchased an OM-to-EOS adapter and decided to put 4 lenses to a test. The Silvernose Zuiko 50 f/1.4, the "Made in Japan" Zuiko 50 f/1.8, the Zuiko 28 f/2.8 and the Canon EOS EF 50 f/1.8 . And this is what I did: The set up The idea is this: No lens test is ever valid/complete without taking pictures of newspapers on walls. Living my photographic life by that motto , I went along and put some newspaper on the wall, mounted the camera on a tripod and positioned it in a distance of 3 meters away. The camera (Canon EOS 10D) is a 6 megapixel camera, set up to fine quality JPEG and ISO 100. For focusing The main setup I used the camera's electronic focus confirmation with the Zuikos and AF with the Canon. The camera was set on aperture priority. For the 28mm lens, I moved the camera forward so that the ne...

This is a review for the Pentax Z-1. This is a friend's camera that stayed with my for 3 months during which I shot one film with it. The Pentax Z-1 came out in the (now) distant 1991 and it was a very innovative camera back at that time. I remember reading about this camera on the photographic press; it was marketed as the Top-of-the-line Pentax although it clearly lacked the modularity and the build quality of its predecessor, the Pentax LX. The LX was a modular system while the Z-1 was a high-end tier camera. It stayed in production for a total of 9 years, receiving an update in 1995 which added a few more features and a more responsive AF module but nothing else. As it is usually the case, cameras of that era (early 90's) are jam packed with useless features which impact on their usability. I suppose it was kind of way to make a camera sound very "high-tec" back at that time. The Z-1 is no exception, the user manual is a whooping 120 pages to...