Whilst riddled with optical flaws and incredibly difficult to nail focus wide-open, the Planar 50mm f/1.4 renders out-of-focus areas with a magical, painterly quality.
Alex Nichol is an amateur photographer based in the UK dabbling with landscape, travel and documentary. Alex has shot with pretty much everything, from classic 35mm and medium format film cameras from Zenit, Leica, Hasselblad, Mamiya and Rolleiflex, to digital SLR and mirrorless systems from Leica, Sony, Canon, Panasonic and Olympus. He is currently shooting with the Fujifilm X System.
It was a glorious 25°c outside and I had a Friday afternoon all to myself, so I packed my camera bag and headed down to Raby Castle in North Yorkshire,...
For a long time now, I've been meaning to take a boat trip out to Inner Farne National Trust Bird Sanctuary to photograph the puffins there, but had never got...