Lens Adapting & Modification Archives

9 January, 2026

Nikon IX 30-60mm – Resurrection of a Redundant Lens

By Edward Currie

I am writing here of the Nikon Pronea S, more specifically the APS Nikon 30-60mm lX kit lens that could not be used on any other Nikon brand SLR camera because the camera end of...

9 January, 2026

Carl Zeiss 80mm F2.8 SL66 Mount Adapted to Pentax 67

By Chi Zhang

The Pentax 67 system lacks a 35mm equivalent lens with large aperture. What, there is a 75AL? I’m too broke to have ever heard of it. So, I’ll have to adapt it myself. A Carl Ze...

2 January, 2026

Lomo 35KP 140mm F1.8 projector lens adapted to Pentax 67

By Chi Zhang

In the everlasting quest for large apertures on 67 format, the path to glory leads towards projector lenses. Among these, the Soviet Lomo 35KP 140mm F1.8 movie projector lens st...

23 November, 2025

Minotars for mirrorless – Converting Minox 35 lenses for use on digital bodies

By Bob Janes

I’m a big fan of the Color-Minotar lens that graces the tiny body of the Minox 35 cameras. About the only thing that annoys me about the lens itself is the misspelling of ...

7 November, 2025

A Pair of Unusual Lenses Adapted to a Fuji GFX 50S

By Daniel Martínez Barber

Fuji GFX cameras produce extremely high-quality images, but native lenses are very expensive, hence my need to look for alternative options. I recommend the website deltalenses....

6 August, 2025

Rodenstock Apo-Sironar Digital 70mm F5.6 – Adapting a digital medium format lens to film

By Simon Foale

A few years ago the managers of the university I work for decided that the Creative Arts department, which taught a number of photography subjects, was insufficiently profitable...

A dog in South Carolina or Georgia. I didn’t see its owner.

27 April, 2025

A Blurred Journey – Through Nikon EM and Holga Lens

By Eagle Omomuro

A day in December 2011, Boston, Massachusetts. It was a cold, snowy day. But nothing felt colder than the heart of a young man lost after a series of failures. I had just gradua...

22 April, 2025

An Inexpensive Adapter on a Sony Mirrorless and Auto ISO.

By Tony Warren

A M39 to Sony E adapter with Industar and Elmar lenses on a Sony A3000 shooting with auto ISO setting.

Bill Brown on Pools of Light – Aquatic adventures in contrast management.
You have some beautiful test results Simon. I don't have much experience processing film except for a short time back…
S Richards on Lomography MC-A Review – The Camera is about Equal too!
I had a rollei 35AF briefly. It didn't even make it to the end of the first roll due to…
Mark Walberg on Canon 7 and a Industar 26m – Initial thoughts and experiences
That Industar 26M was made at FED, not KMZ. There were very few KMZ Industar 26M lenses made very early.…

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