29 February, 2024
That Time I Built an X-Pro1/Monitor-Six-20 “FrankenFuji”
In my days before 35mmc, Jim Gray published this article on his great “Down the Road” site. It described how and why I adapted a 1940’s Kodak Monitor Six-20 le...
3 February, 2024
Shooting “Super-Macros” with a Contaflex Super B SLR (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this article, I stumbled on a way to shoot “super-macro” photos with a vintage Contaflex SLR! And it was done without Zeiss Ikon’s “Proxar” screw-on lens adapters (...
24 January, 2024
Shooting “Super-Macros” with a Contaflex Super B SLR (Part 1)
Over the years, many people have asked online how to do macro photography with vintage Zeiss Ikon Contaflex SLRs. Here’s a 2005 thread on the subject. Common wisdom says that Co...
12 January, 2024
Turning A 35mm Lens Into A 150mm – Jankuary Lens Adapting
If you missed my article last Friday, be sure and have a look. I take a dive back into my first “serious” camera. This week I’m using one of my current bodies, but with a twist....
A couple of years ago I happened to see an image on Twitter that completely stopped me in my tracks. It was a very fortunate sighting as I'm not a big fan of twitter, I am howev...
Ages ago, the guys at West Yorkshire Cameras posted a picture of a lens they "cobbled" together on Instagram. Apparently, behind the scenes they had joked about the fact that I ...
8 May, 2023
PPP 35M Color-Minotar 35mm f2.8 Review
Recently, the lens market has seen a new fresh offering for us, vintage lenses enthusiastic people. Some workshops, like PPP, Omnar, MS Optics has been offering the possibility ...
14 April, 2023
Fuji 100mm F3.5 AE Lens (6X9) adapted to Pentax (35mm)
It is a lens designed for medium format cameras (6x7 and 6x9) of the Fuji brand, which began to be marketed in 1974. It has a classic Tessar optical design, that is, 4 elements ...