Last week, after months of hoping and searching, I finally landed a Minolta Super Rokkor 50mm 1.8 LTM lens. This lens is rare (only about 3000 were made) and highly regarded for its image quality. The camera it was designed for, the Minolta-35 IIB, was sold for onlyContinue Reading
Once I added manual focus cameras to the VMLP, I had to decide which lenses to explore. Initially, I settled on zooms because I had the standard 50mm lenses, and prime SR lenses were more expensive than the AF lenses I used. Once I had a decent collectionContinue Reading
The Polar Vortex came through last winter and dropped temps into the single digits. I watched as my brown garden with defiant patches of green turned all brown. The gardenias suffered the most. The large seven-foot bush in the front of the house turned and remains brown, looking almost asContinue Reading
