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I know that the best is not to clean them, but how to clean an old lens when we have fingerprints and the glass or the coating is very soft? Summar, Summitar, Jupiters... I use a cotton swab with some cleaning fluid for lenses, but I do not know if it is the best option.

I made the mistake of wandering into the electrical store in Heathrow last week, assuming that they wouldn't have anything interesting. Unfortunately, they had a 100-400... It was big and heavy but not as much as I thought it would be. The OIS works really well and I want to start getting...

Lately I've been researching all the various wide angle lenses you can get for a modern DSLR. After shooting mirrorless for awhile and witnessing the smallness and simplicity of compact M-mount wide angle glass, especially the Voigtlander 15mm f/4.5 Heliar lens, I've been searching for a DSLR...

7artisans 75mm f/1.25 lens for Leica M-mount specifications and sample photos - Leica Rumors This lens looks like it's going to very good at a reasonable price. Link also has samples and they look great! 7Artisans said they will also make an FE version optimized for other mirrorless cameras...

I've been searching for a cheap replacement for my Voigtlander 40mm 1.4 Nokton MC. While it was very sharp in the center, the field curvature softness was really starting to bug me due to the thick sensor stack of the Sony bodies. I've been looking at other alternatives such as the Voigtlander...

To be honest I'm not sure how I tripped on this lens. But after using it for a few days I'm very glad I did. This lens retails for $119. and not unlike 7a's 25mm f1.8, ($79.), it seems to offer some very serious image quality for an exceptional price. The build quality appears to be very...

As per my thread on the UK Photography Show, I now have an a6000 with the 16-50 kit lens. I've also got an adapter to fit my old Russian Jupiter-8 50mm f2 lens so that should be fun! First couple of test shots below. Nothing fancy but the 16-50 gets closer than I thought it would, and seems...

Hello, I have a wartime CZJ Sonnar 5cm f1,5 in Leica Thread Mount serial # 2870001 which seems to date it approx. from 1942. I need advice on how to unscrew the optic module to check for matching serial numbers and perhaps determine it's authenticity. I am loathe to dismantle/damage the lens due...

I have an inbox full of unprocessed images, but although this one is very atypical, it's an interesting challenge for me. The OlloClip wide-angle lens has quite a bit of distortion, but getting more used to it, I'm making better use of its features - in this case some vignetting. The fortunate...

A controversial (when it was first erected) sculpture on the West pier of Sutton Harbour, Plymouth

A reminder that Mountbatten played host for some time to Coastal command Sunderland flying boats

Manx Loaghtan Ewe

Manx Loaghtan Ewe

The Castle class locomotive Earl of Mount Edgecumbe tackling Hemerdon bank just east of Plymouth (UK)

A young Blackbird doesn't seem so keen on berries as a diet

A newly fledged young Blackbird

A newly fledged Blackbird shows interest in the male birds beak full of worms

The Dartmouth Lower Ferry slipway from the pontoon side as it approaches the slipway

The engines are kept full ahead to hold the pontoon against the slipway

The Dartmouth slipway for the Lower Ferry

The skipper of one of the two Dartmouth Lower Ferries

Getting on and off the Dartmouth Lower Ferry at high tide in rough weather is all about timing

Approaching the slipway on the Dartmouth side having crossed the river from Kingswear

Setting out across the river to Kingswear

Turning the tug after going astern from the slipway

The Lower ferry approaching the slip in rough conditions

The flower is about 0.7" (18 mm) across, and growing on the stone wall at the rear of my cottage.

I was going to post something else, but at the last minute went some of Sushi we ha this evening, Spanish Mackerel on the left, baby Squid on the right, both wild flown in from Japan. Color Efex, HDR, :Lens (mm): 9.3 ISO: 1600 Aperture: 2.8 Shutter: 1/75 Exp. Comp.: 0.0

While waiting for my Landcruiser at the car wash I caught this simple shadow. PS Lens (mm): 28.4 ISO: 400 Aperture: 5 Shutter: 1/950 Exp. Comp.: +0.7

Had to run to the market this morning for milk and stuff, took an image I liked a lot of the sky from the parking lot, but the more I played with this image, the more I like this one for today, HDR, Silver Efex Lens (mm): 7.1 ISO: 1600 Aperture: 5 Shutter: 1/90 Exp. Comp.: -0.7

i took this image and few others while waiting to get a table for breakfast at a popular local spot, Silver Efex, HDR Lens (mm): 7.1 ISO: 400 Aperture: 5.6 Shutter: 1/600 Exp. Comp.: -0.7

As I walked one mid winters morning, it was a grey and uninspiring day (with apologies to Laurie Lee). A few minutes up the lane past my cottage and I joined the 1000 year old royal carriage road. I didn't take many photographs this morning, most were different to one another and none really...

After yesterdays dramatic seas it was a much quieter day today. It being Friday I had my usual lunch of fish and chips washed down with a pint of cider in the Queens Arms at Slapton, but caught an earlier bus and did some strolling around photography before it clouded up. Slapton was already a...

This guy grabbed my attention on my way to todays SIJ shoot, but he ended up in here and not in the SIJ. He's in a steep field on the leeward side of the Start Point peninsula, although very exposed here if the wind turns easterly.

This is Peartree Point looking back towards Start Point Lighthouse. This is a good area for Atlantic Grey Seals and I was amazed that what I took to be a piece of driftwood bobbing around just beyond the rocks that are immediately in front of my position turned out to be a seal, then I saw a...

These two masts rise 450' into the air and the transmitter was opened by the BBC in 1939. The nearest mast is the transmitter, the far mast the reflector. In 1944 their roles were reversed and this became the only transmitter in the UK to broadcast radio services to the troops serving with the...