Marco Aries

  Since my review of the 40mm f1.8 everyone has been telling me to check out the 135mm, but as I soon found out, there are multiple versions of it and the general consent seems to be that the f3.5 version is the one to get, sharper, lighter, more compact and so on. Obviously, the only one I could find was the f2.5, but I got it anyway. Since I bought it, I've found myself coming back to it time and time again, it's a lens that keeps giving, I really enjoy shooting it and, as you probably all know by now, I prefer longer lenses to short and wide ones, and this one really reminds me of my Tokina 135mm f2.8, they are really similar although this is a bit bigger, but we will discuss more about that in a dedicated video, if you want to.  Anyway, this “big boi”, as I like to call it, has a metal body and weighs around 650 grams. It is 93mm long when focused to infinity, 118mm when extended and when you pop out the built-in sun hood it gets to 134mm; the front thread has a 62mm dia...

  There’s a bit of a story behind acquiring this lens. In the summer of 2019 I went to a different flea market, one I had never been before and on a table I saw a camera and a couple lenses. I quickly inspected them and while they seemed in great conditions, but I barely knew the Konica name and had no knowledge on how good, or bad, it could be, so I left it there. Considering that I usually buy almost anything, it was pretty uncharacteristic of me. By the time I got home I was still thinking about that lens, so I looked it up on the internet and realized that at least the 40mm was supposed to be a good lens, and the price was fair too. “Well”, I said to myself, “you lose one, you get one, I’ll find something else next time”. A month later I went back to that flea market and, lo and behold, there it was, still waiting for me, so I bought it, along with some paperwork, a small catalog, the Kenlock 100-300mm, an Autoreflex TC camera, which I will eventually try, and a focal multiplie...

  Something you don’t know about me is that I got my start in photography when I was a kid with a cheap plastic point-and-shoot camera, a bright red Konica POP super, and it's been somewhere around 15 years since the last time I shot film and I was feeling the itch to get back to it. So I did.   A couple of years ago my father dug out his old camera, a Konica C35, and gave it to me, as it hasn't been used in like 20 or 30 years, something like that. He got it in the 70s and brought it with him in his most exciting travels, Paris and New York, and used it to document his life time and time again.  So I bought a couple rolls of film, Kodak color plus 200, the most basic film you can get, and started shooting. Too bad it took me more than a year to shoot 24 exposures, but eventually I managed to get through the roll get it developed. Then I had to scan it because, surprisingly, it costs way too much to digitalize pictures, it was way cheaper to just buy a scanner, a basic ...