There’s something about older lenses, their sold build and lack of plastic make them just a pleasure to use and admire. Unfortunately nowadays this craftsmanship is disappearing fast with only the traditional companies like Zeiss, Voigtländer and Leica still making beautiful machined handcrafted lenses. For the Nikon system all the older manual lenses still...

Today’s digital cameras can almost achieve ideal exposure results easily, though in many cases they are not so good. The introduction of TTL metering saw the massive decline of the use of one photography’s most important tools, the Lightmeter. For the majority of photographers especially the younger generation have only ever-used digital capture and...