Camera and Lens Reviews — 50mm

What would you get if a high end Swiss precision watch maker suddenly decided to design and build a reflex camera? Well back in 1939 Pignons S.A. asked that very question and jumped head first into the emerging 35mm film camera market. With that they went on a 50 year journey that ended with the same amount of camera bodies that could be produced today in a factory over the course of a few weeks and bankruptcy.     Alpa cameras are an anomaly in the film camera world. Extremely well built with hundreds of individually hand crafted and hand...

If there was one lens and one lens only, this would be the one. Not only revolutionary in its time, but will set the stage for all future lenses. It is the first aspherical Leica lens ever made as well as a nocturnal lens and an earth shattering 1.2 f-stop. Perfectly designed in every way with its shape, size and finish. Classic scalloped shaped focusing ring. Small, subtle and well balanced on any Leica M camera. Perfectly finished in the classic anodized black. Some very few prototype examples were made in Silver chrome. What I would do to have one of those...

Leica MP3 is the perfect remake of the original 1957 MP, considered to be the holy grail of Leica cameras. Down to the finest detail with modern amenities, built in light metre and ASPH lens. Small details such as external counter, long rewind engagement lever, vulcanite style leather, triangular lugs, and frame around the windows are what sets this camera apart from any other special edition that Leica has ever made. Not to mention it includes one of the finest lenses of all production, the 50mm 1.4 ASPH in a retro scalloped focusing mount. This is a great alternative and...