Lens Adapting & Modification Archives

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.

1 April, 2025

An F-mount to LTM lens adapter on a Canon 7

By Tony Warren

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)

By Sebastian Shields

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

By Dave Powell

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 ...

8 August, 2024

Adventures in C-Mount 110-Film Scanning

By Dave Powell

In a previous article, I explored macro-photography using C-mount cine lenses attached to a Fiji X-Pro1 APS-C digital. In those three experiments, I discovered that my mounting ...

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