{"id":28440,"date":"2025-07-04T18:15:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T18:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=28440"},"modified":"2025-07-04T18:15:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T18:15:21","slug":"a-love-letter-to-lenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=28440","title":{"rendered":"A Love Letter…….to lenses"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Two early wide angles, the 24m. f2.8 and a 35mm f 2 with rear lens caps glued back to back!<\/span><\/p>\n

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It was no one less than the great John Shaw that said, “I never met a lens I didn’t like….or buy!”\u00a0 \u00a0Amen, that same 6hng could be said of me as well!\u00a0 After all,\u00a0 \u00a0a great camera is wonderful, but it is the lens that make all the difference!\u00a0 I wouldn’t even want to guess how many lenses I’ve owned , but it has to be in the hundreds!<\/span><\/p>\n

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A little history; I started in photography in the 1960’s around 1968.\u00a0 My first real camera was from Nikon. a Nikkormat FTN\u00a0 that was sold with a 50mm f 2 lens.\u00a0 Shortly after I bought a 35mm f 2 and a 105mm f 2.5. then it was off to the races!!!!\u00a0 I stayed with Nikon for 43 years!!!!\u00a0 After shoulder surgery I moved to the lighter Fujifilm X System,\u00a0 Only recently I’ve picked up some small Micro 4\/3rds cameras and\u00a0 and lenses which I use for light travel, from Olympus and Panasonic\u00a0 (Lumix) I am currently shooting with a complete Fujifilm system.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Here are some of my all time favorite lenses some images made with them!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Starting at the long end, my favorite all time long lens was the Nikon 400mm f 3.5 telephoto.\u00a0 It was fast and exceedingly sharp and even though manual focus (back then everything was!)\u00a0 \u00a0It was a beautiful lens!<\/span><\/p>\n

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The African Bee Easter!<\/span><\/p>\n

Two examples above!<\/span><\/p>\n

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My favorite short telephoto and portrait lens was the Nikon 105mm f 2.5 this image of my dear friend Mike Ellison above and my daughter Catherine with our Basset Hound, B.J. are two examples of it’s most common use!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Two more examples of the wonderful versatility of a 105mm!<\/span><\/p>\n

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My most used wide angle lens has been the 24mm f 2.8, \u00a0some examples belo<\/span>w.<\/p>\n

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Those are some of my favorite lenses from the film era!!!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Watch for a future post with some of my favorite Digital Era lenses!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Blessings,<\/span><\/p>\n

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the pilgrim<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two early wide angles, the 24m. f2.8 and a 35mm f 2 with rear lens caps glued back to back!   It was no one less than the great John Shaw that said, “I never met a lens I didn’t like….or buy!”\u00a0 \u00a0Amen, that same 6hng could be said of me as well!\u00a0 After all,\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28440"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28454,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28440\/revisions\/28454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}