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The World's Widest Lens
Has the sameness of everyday photography got ya down Bunky?  Bored with the lenses that you're currently using? Does that 21mm super-wide of yesteryear seem a little tame these days?
Well, have I got a lens for you!

Voigtländer, a name from the past, has reemerged during the past couple of years and has brought forth a number of interesting new cameras and lenses. These include three Leica lens compatible cameras, theBessa R,theBessa Land theBessa T. They have a large assortment of fascinating and reasonably priced screw mount lenses available as well.
These bodies and lenses are actually made byCosina, a Japanese company that does a lot of OEM manufacturing for various brand-name companies as well as selling product under their own name. They have obtained the venerable pre-WW2 Austrian photographic equipment maker's name and have applied it to this new r...

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Michael Reichmann is the founder of the Luminous Landscape. Michael passed away in May 2016. Since its inception in 1999 LuLa has become the world's largest site devoted to the art, craft, and technology of photography. Each month more than one million people from every country on the globe visit LuLa.
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