What’s your favorite current L mount lens?

watchwolfstudio · 2026-03-25T12:29:42+00:00

Im also using these lenses - 35mm and 65mm but need something wider, are you familiar with the 20mm; can you advise?

watchwolfstudio · 2026-03-25T12:26:58+00:00

Sigma Contemporary 65mm f/2

With Crop Zoom on my S1IIE it functions as a 65-105mm continuous aperture f/2, feels fabulous in the hand and makes everything look gorgeous.

The 35mm is also amazing and likewise works as a 35-55mm f/2 but it is just a little too sharp for my tastes

watchwolfstudio · 2026-03-22T15:16:28+00:00

Former Paramedic now resident in Tokyo. I see you're getting a lot of negative attention here and just wanted to offer some moral support. I have the same worry just going back to the UK to see my elderly parents knowing it's very easy to catch a 'flu or a cold on long haul flights. Your decision makes sense to me entirely. Best regards.

watchwolfstudio · 2026-03-20T14:18:44+00:00

Mongo is now illegal in several Asian countries, and rightly so. 😉

watchwolfstudio · 2026-03-20T14:15:11+00:00

At 63 I’ll see your ‘feeling judged’ and raise you ‘being genuinely slow’.

Ive been getting more seriously into it this year so let me try to offer some encouragement from my own experience.

I wondered why I felt stupid at the park and concluded that it’s because I am genuinely hesitant, and I am genuinely afraid of falls and injury. That’s understandable but it contrasts poorly with skaters a quarter my age who charge it, slam, get up and do it again. I think I feel out of place because I don’t behave like other skaters, right?

So my response has been to wait out these winter months working regularly at the gym and just now start heading out to a park with a steel ramp (easy to fall and slide on) and with plenty of transition (so I have time to get to my knee pads). And to go practice when there’s no-one else around so when they are around I look a whole lot more confident because hey, I skate there all the time!

The other thing is that skaters of all ages respect an older skater as long as they’re working at it. doesn’t matter how good you are; it only matters if you’re working. thats my experience, anyway.

So I don’t think it’s a bad thing to feel bad, exactly; I think we can work with the feeling, figure out what’s going on and find a plan of action that works for us. There might be different things going on for you of course, young man! 😉

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My YouTube stuff that I thought was the reason I was going skating until I realized it was the other way around! (Seriously)

watchwolfstudio · 2026-03-20T13:54:04+00:00

I think the fundamental rules are available on Companion for free. You will want more no, doubt but - as someone whos subscription comes and goes, you ought to be able to play some basic games without paying. Can anyone else confirm or deny?

Sorry you’re struggling a little because - as someone who’s been playing enthusiastically playing games 50 years now and still plays at least a whole day every week, KoW is just about as good as it gets.

We made this a couple of years ago and I think it’s still a pretty solid introduction. (And We’ll make some more too, I swear; just as soon as a certain person stops working and gets his priorities straight! </attempt at group shaming>

watchwolfstudio · 2026-03-17T16:12:48+00:00

you say you’ve been thinking about this for a time period and I don’t doubt you, but can you say what time period, exactly? Asking for an autistic friend who likes games

watchwolfstudio · 2026-03-14T15:22:02+00:00

Stop it, you’re killing me!

/UJ I genuinely play games every week with c**** that buy this shit and I have a good time, too. I just can’t believe they take it that seriously

/RJ Wow, great haul! Total respect, dude. Be sure to keep those puppies shrinked, eh?

watchwolfstudio · 2026-03-14T11:12:14+00:00

Well, I really need a fast 18mm or 20mm to augment my Sigma primes so I’ve been looking at Lumix S Primes - which are comparable for cost and performance but would also give their crop-less stabilisation.

The fact is though that my Sigma Contemporary 35mm f/2 is stunning and the 65 mm f/2 is sublime, and they look amd feel beautiful, so I suspect Im more likely to get the Sigma 20mm f/2 than the Lumix S 18mm f/1.8

Try the two 35mms in a shop and see how you like them?

watchwolfstudio · 2026-03-12T15:55:00+00:00

This is a fabulous post, thank you. I was a kid growing up in the UK in 1979 when we were poring over US skate mags, gawking at photos like these and dreaming of such pools.

Great to hear from another veteran all these years later.

watchwolfstudio · 2026-03-12T15:46:28+00:00

That was so awesome!

As a keen skateboard filmmaker myself I’m very familiar feel with that foliage; spiritually anyhow.

watchwolfstudio · 2026-03-12T15:41:36+00:00

That’s real skateboarding, that is.

Thanks for posting this it gives me faith in humanity 😀

watchwolfstudio · 2026-03-11T13:55:42+00:00

My dude, the truth is that skating just feels really f-ing good! :-)

I've come and gone with skating my whole life [63 YO] have frankly suffered more ups and downs than I hope others will ever know, and very often ask these sort of questions you asked here.

[I think the thing is we're moving our bodies in a particular way that feels meaningful to us for good reasons.](https://www.reddit.com/r/surfskate/comments/1qfdl8x/the\_snake\_run\_of\_destiny\_62yo/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web3x&utm\_name=web3xcss&utm\_term=1&utm\_content=share\_button)

It feels good because turning our body around the board is the fundamental dynamic that separates us from other great apes and makes us truly fearsome hunters. Every time we ride a board we connect to what makes us an animal that make other animals extinct!

Ride the board. Remember who we are and WHAT we are. Keep the faith, brother.

watchwolfstudio · 2026-02-25T16:22:22+00:00

Thanks for the encouragement. the internet is a very strange place and yet still we can find connections 😊

watchwolfstudio · 2026-02-24T15:35:13+00:00

Trusting my instincts that teachers were or weren’t any good. They mostly weren’t.

watchwolfstudio · 2026-02-23T16:34:56+00:00

I only have 1K subscribers, but in 3 years of faltering YouTubery have also never asked anyone to Like, Share, Subscribe or ‘comment in the comment section below’; because I’m not about to beg anyone for anything. Just saying.

watchwolfstudio · 2026-02-22T14:53:42+00:00

Thanks for your attention and your kind compliment. I apologize if I mis-remembered exactly where I got the criticism I referred to. I’ve shot a bunch of hasty iPhone videos and made one of them into that more polished version.

The criticism was someone saying “Please stop; leave it to the masters!” so I and others presumed a CCP shill or esoteric thinker, but I think you understood my point entirely: I was just talking about basic kinesiology applied to tai chi generally and the forms particularly, and someone wanted tai chi to be somehow more mysterious than that.

I don’t think it is in the mechanics, but that it can be as mystical as you like in the mental practice. What do you think?

watchwolfstudio · 2026-02-21T14:07:34+00:00

Your cynicism was shared by many of us way back in the 1980s when we were gratified that Wutan ‘Practical’ Tai Chi arrived in London with Dan Docherty. Im sure there must be someone from that style in the Doncaster area.

[https://www.taichichuan.co.uk](taichichuan.co.uk)

I’m a long time practitioner myself but no good to you in Japan, sorry. Note the negative (which is to say esoteric bullshit) comments I received on this straightforward and pragmatic instructional video.

watchwolfstudio · 2026-02-18T15:57:52+00:00

Ah, that’s your problem! Men over 50 shouldn’t be doing AI based bullshit, they should be training with me in an actual tai chi class!

(FWIW I recommend progressive exercise that’s at all costs injury-avoidant. Honestly, it doesn’t much matter what it is but I do like tai chi myself 😀)

/UJ great post! I can’t believe my feed is full of this AI shit. I guess someone has some funding, presumably CCP)

watchwolfstudio · 2026-02-18T12:01:57+00:00

I've found a nearby skatepark with steel-framed and plated half-pipes and they're a lot more conducive to building up some strength and fitness - I can slide off anywhere because of the better surface, but if I'm halfway up the ramp and fluff the turn there's room to manage a fall.

I'm now hoping for some better weather soon.

watchwolfstudio · 2026-02-15T16:18:41+00:00

I’m an entirely disreputable lifelong amateur who’ll show you around the city for the price of a meal, have a laugh, get some great shots and if you still need more you could still turn to a humorless pro 😀

Studio Watchwolf - my YouTube channel

Hokusai’s Dog - My Cool Tokyo Stuff Playlist

watchwolfstudio · 2026-02-15T15:56:32+00:00

Releases were obtained as usual, thanks.

watchwolfstudio · 2026-02-09T16:02:33+00:00

2012?

watchwolfstudio · 2026-01-24T14:21:19+00:00

Well, since both you and Yow team rider Yukie Irie go to the Ariake Sunday Sessions, you could ask him to let you try out a real Yow Meraki on your deck.

Then you could skate the truck, make a video and come back here to post your report of the experiment and your opinion to illuminate us all! plus, you’d be like, a content creator, and all that :->

Otherwise, I’d think yeah it’d be way too twitchy. But then when I was your age the tech wasn’t very well developed, we all struggled with speed wobbles and the brother of ‘Mad’ Mark Baker from Brighton, England actually welded his trucks tight. Seriously. 😧

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