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Category: Status updates

April 30, 2025

March-April 2025 Update

This update briefly lists all the new articles/pages added to JAPB during March and April of 2025

February 28, 2025

January–February 2025 Update

1-2/2025 has to offer: two new lens mounts, five company profiles, 25 new data sheets, one cold winter walk-around and a deep-dive into the development of a lens over 50+ years. Enjoy.

December 31, 2024

October-December 2024 Update

This update briefly lists all the 20 new articles/pages added to JAPB during October, November and December of 2024.

September 30, 2024

July–September 2024 Update

This update briefly lists all the new articles/pages added to JAPB during July, August and September of 2024, including two West German lens mounts and 25 new lens data sheets.

June 30, 2024

April–June 2024 Update

This update briefly lists all the new articles/pages added to JAPB during April, May and June of 2024 including an article that summarises all 7 Mamiya 35 mm lens mounts.

February 29, 2024

February-March 2024 Update

This update briefly lists all the 32 new lens data sheets and two company profiles added to JAPB during February and March 2024.

January 31, 2024

January 2024 Update

This update briefly lists all the new articles/pages (including 5 articles related to lens mounts and 13 lens data sheets) added to JAPB during January 2024.

January 10, 2024

Soviet stagnation, vapourware and diamonds in the rough.

… not an uncommon occurrence. It even has a name: Vapourware. Vapourware is a product that is announced to the general public but is late, never actually manufactured, or officially cancelled…

December 31, 2023

November-December 2023 Update

Here you can find all new articles/pages added to JAPB during November and December 2023. My personal favourite of these ≈20 additions is the article discussing the ‘Soviet Nikon’.

October 31, 2023

September-October 2023 Update

11 new data sheets is not a lot, but it’s all we managed during two very busy months.

September 1, 2023

July-August 2023 Update

15 new lens data sheets (most of which focus on German and Soviet lenses) as well as two articles.

July 1, 2023

April–June 2023 Update

This Post holds a list of every new content that’s been added to JAPB in April-June 2023.

June 17, 2023

On terminology and names

YMMV, but I’ve always been fascinated by names and terms, and – in my previous research into the naming practices/logic of Meyer-Optik Görlitz – I gathered some other naming-related information, which has now taken the form of two more articles:

March 31, 2023

March 2023 Update

This Post holds a list of every new content that’s been added to JAPB in March 2023, including 5 articles and 11 lens data sheets.

February 28, 2023

February 2023 Update

February 2023 has brought a dozen more articles on lens mounts as well as two lens data sheets.

January 31, 2023

January 2023 Update

This Post holds a list of every new content that’s been added to JAPB in January 2023, including an article about the Rollei QBM mount and 29 new lens data sheets.

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December 22, 2022

December Update

This Post holds a list of every new content that’s been added to JAPB in December – always one of the (otherwise) busiest months of the year.

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December 1, 2022

November Update

This Post holds a list of every new content that’s been added to JAPB in November – a month during which we were quite busy with our day-jobs.

November 3, 2022

The (positive) effect of (positive) change…

To celebrate the occasion of the 100th new article in roughly as many days …

July 17, 2022

Comparisons, Reviews, Walk-arounds, and data sheets

Dear readers, In a few paragraphs, I will describe a slight policy/strategy change for JAPB, but first, let me tell you why… For me,…

May 27, 2022

Lens mounts

JAPB has had two major updates this spring.
Firstly, JAPB has (finally) matured enough to deserve its own domain.
Secondly, JAPB’s most popular part (the JAPB guide to identifying your lens mount) has received a major upgrade…

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March 31, 2022

Welcome to japb.net

Just Another Photo Blog saw the light of day in March 2020 as a site located in a subfolder of my legacy domain.

Two years later – almost to the day – JAPB has migrated to a new server and – more importantly – a domain of its own. Welcome!

March 6, 2022

Notice: Site reconstruction

As JAPB has evolved from its initial concept, the structure I originally envisioned for JAPB has shown itself to be less suitable for the current content of JAPB. Therefore, JAPB’s structure is being redone. Sadly, that restructuring is a manual job, a number of internal links may be broken in the meantime …. Read more

June 29, 2021

Optical flaws and aberrations – new article series finished (was: in the works)

Update (December 2021): The article series mentioned below is now finished, in its entirety (until someone asks me to extend it). You can the…

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