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
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
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...
27 April, 2025
A Blurred Journey – Through Nikon EM and Holga Lens
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.
A M39 to Sony E adapter with Industar and Elmar lenses on a Sony A3000 shooting with auto ISO setting.
1 April, 2025
An F-mount to LTM lens adapter on a Canon 7
Using nikon F-mount lenses on a Canon 7 LTM body
17 January, 2025
Wollensak 5″ f/3.5 Projector Lens Adapting Journey (and Failure)
I ran into this lens during a trip to bop around the local thrift store with friends one afternoon. I picked it up off of a Revere 553 Projector, of which I have, surprisingly, ...
3 October, 2024
More Adventures with C-Mount Marble Macros
This is my last article (for now) in a series about macro photography using C-mount cine lenses. (The first article is here and the second is here.) In the first, I tried three ...