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Michael Reichmann

Michael Reichmann

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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Bigma and Widema Head South

Bigma Widema Sigma lenses have a mixed reputation – neither uniformly good not unformly bad. There are a few lenses in that company’s line though...
Michael Reichmann

Michael Reichmann

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January 13, 2009

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Leica 16-18-21mm f/4 Tri-Elmar Field Report

In 1998 Leica introduced theTri-Elmar (TE),offering 28, 35 and 50mm focal lengths in one lens. Though not a zoom lens, it was the first lens...
Michael Reichmann

Michael Reichmann

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January 13, 2009

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Canon 17mm TS/E Review

Canon makes a number of very fine lenses, but to be frank – wide angles have not typically been that company’s forte. But with the...
Michael Reichmann

Michael Reichmann

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January 13, 2009

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12mm

This subject will be featured in a forthcoming issue of The Luminous Landscape Video Journal. The World’s Widest Lens Has the sameness of everyday photography got...
Michael Reichmann

Michael Reichmann

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January 13, 2009

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16 vs 17

——Canon 17-40mm f/4LCanon 16-35mm f/2.8LPlease note that the MTF Charts for the 17-40mm are from Canon Japan web site. The ones on the Canon U.S...
Michael Reichmann

Michael Reichmann

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January 13, 2009

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XPan 30mm

Background I have been a huge fan of theHasselblad XPancamera system since it first came out in late 1998. I purchased one of the first...
Michael Reichmann

Michael Reichmann

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January 13, 2009

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600mm

  This subject is featured in Issue #4 of The Luminous Landscape Video Journal. Big Lens‚ Big Issues Pentax’s600mm f/4lens weighs 13lbs. It’s 14.5" long and...
Michael Reichmann

Michael Reichmann

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January 13, 2009

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Nikon 600mm

By: Tom Hill If the camera companies had navy fleets, their flagships would be the super-telephoto lenses — super-teles. Both Canon and Nikon make huge...
Michael Reichmann

Michael Reichmann

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January 13, 2009

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14 minutes read