Done and Gone
Posts: 7,650
Chiredzi, Masvingo, Zimbabwe
Crap, I was going to start a thread like this.
Now I will have to actually shoot something!!! You know me, I have quite a stash of nice vintage lenses and still growing. I picked up the legendary yellow glass 50mm 1.4 Pentax Super Takumar in M42 yesterday, mounted on a Pentax Spotmatic that still works perfectly despite being around 50 years old.
Currently looking for a couple of old, dead EF mount (Canon EOS) lenses I can use to cobble up an adapter as I recently acquired a vintage Kodak Retina Reflex III with 4 Schneider lenses. The mount is small diameter and the leaf shutter inside the camera make the mount flange to plane of exposure distance longer than the Canon. I am thinking I can come up with something that uses parts from both systems.
I will run a roll through the camera first but they generally don't fetch much despite praise for the lenses. It may have to be sacrificed or maybe I will snag a dead one of those too from ebay.
Patrickth
Posts: 10,291
Bellingham, Washington, US
Michael L. wrote: Crap, I was going to start a thread like this.
Now I will have to actually shoot something!!! You know me, I have quite a stash of nice vintage lenses and still growing. I picked up the legendary yellow glass 50mm 1.4 Pentax Super Takumar in M42 yesterday, mounted on a Pentax Spotmatic that still works perfectly despite being around 50 years old.
Currently looking for a couple of old, dead EF mount (Canon EOS) lenses I can use to cobble up an adapter as I recently acquired a vintage Kodak Retina Reflex III with 4 Schneider lenses. The mount is small diameter and the leaf shutter inside the camera make the mount flange to plane of exposure distance longer than the Canon. I am thinking I can come up with something that uses parts from both systems.
I will run a roll through the camera first but they generally don't fetch much despite praise for the lenses. It may have to be sacrificed or maybe I will snag a dead one of those too from ebay.
I bought something on the order of 20 lenses for that P.O.S. Panasonic 4/3 and 4-5 adapters. Going to have to see which of those lenses are worth messing with now. I have a couple of really big drawers you can go through and see if you can cobble something together.
Found a few packard shutters I set aside for you to play with too.
I've got about 8 other M42 lenses. I originally got them for shooting timelapse to completely eliminate aperture flicker (if it never moves, it can't differ slightly from shot to shot!).
I've got about 8 other M42 lenses. I originally got them for shooting timelapse to completely eliminate aperture flicker (if it never moves, it can't differ slightly from shot to shot!).
Patrickth
Posts: 10,291
Bellingham, Washington, US
Kaouthia wrote: Thanks, that was a fun shoot at a great location, but the weather gods were against us. Heading back up there in a couple of weeks to try again.
I still laugh about that shoot with Elizabeth. Not sure what she thought about it. She picked the spot, probably thinking it was virtually free of humans. But I knew better. Forest service hires brush clearing teams who clear by the acre. Where I live, its Russian, eastern European, where she is at, most appeared to be Mexican.
Soon as we started shooting, I could feel them, out of sight more or less, but I knew they were there. I think she was surprised when they were gathering to go back to their car/truck, but it was late friday and pretty heavy rain.
I've got about 8 other M42 lenses. I originally got them for shooting timelapse to completely eliminate aperture flicker (if it never moves, it can't differ slightly from shot to shot!).
Nice! I have one of those Helios, fairly common from what I can tell. Not wild about the bokeh, it seems a bit nervous but there is a look there that I like.
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