Aren't humans amazing. We develop sophisticated technology – high-resolution sensors, superfast lenses – to record images. But we also make, and express ourselves with, the simplest…
Learning Journeys• Lens Adapting, Mods & DIY• Photos & Projects
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Artefacts of a Laboratory – Adapting an enlarging lens to a Sony DSLR – By Jordi Fradera
August 12, 2020This story began when a few days ago I looked for the entry “Photography” in the well-known DUDEN thematic dictionary (Bildwörterbush of Duden - Leipzig 1940…
Lens Adapting, Mods & DIY• Tutorials & Guides
The Impact of Air Bubbles in the Optics of Old Lenses – By Jordi Fradera
July 2, 2020Tell me something that is heavy, hard, old and almost unbreakable. Is it a stone? No, it's a prewar Contax. I say "almost unbreakable", as these…
DIY & Pinhole Cameras• Lens Adapting, Mods & DIY
FauXPAN, Just Another DIY 35mm Panorama Camera – By Freeman Lin
June 22, 2020It was Day 6 of COVID-19 isolation, I was feeling more and more restless. Being one of the lucky ones, I could still work from home,…
Lens Adapting, Mods & DIY
A Little Bricolage, or: How I Recovered Two Old Lenses – By Jordi Fradera
May 7, 2020I’ll start with the Canon Super-Canomatic R 135mm f/2.5, but before I get going, its relevant to say that both Canon, Pentax K and Sony A…
Lens Adapting, Mods & DIY• Photos & Projects
How I Shot A Micro-Budget Feature Film for less than £4000 with Vintage Lenses and a Sony A7s – By Brenden Singh
February 13, 2020Why make a micro-budget feature film? Well, I had the idea since I was 14 years old. I had a lot of free time at that…
Lens Adapting, Mods & DIY• Photos & Projects
A Paxette Pinhole Conversion and a walk in the Countryside – By Rock
February 12, 2020In an earlier post I suggested that the only thing left to do with my 1950s rangefinder 35mm was a pinhole conversion project, bearing in mind…
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CAMERADACTYL Brancopan 35mm Panoramic Camera: A Preview with Pictures – By Ethan
December 17, 2019I'm Ethan, I make cameras at Cameradactyl.com. A few months back I finished the initial prototypes for a new camera, the Brancopan, which is a 35mm…
Lens Adapting, Mods & DIY
A path from, and back to, a Yashica 40mm f/1.7 lens – by Anders Bjørn Jensen
December 10, 2019I have been an amateur photographer since I was 13 years old (in 1982) when my first camera was a now long-since-bricked Yashica Electro 35 GX.…
Lens Adapting, Mods & DIY• Lenses
Russian Slide Projector lens modification – By Stuart Jenkins
July 10, 2019'Sharp lenses' and 'cheap lenses' is a Venn diagram with a very small intersection. In search of such a short-telephoto lens for equestrian photography, I started…
