滲みレンズ/Bokeh Lens (レンズ教室、レンズテスト) Leitz/Leica,Plasmat,Kinoptik,Angenieux,Dallmeyer,Ross,Astro Berlin. Tamron Lenses. Www.jcolwell.ca/MM/MonaghansCultClassics.pdf. The Off-Brand Club!! Ok...We have the "M Club" and the "K Club" and someone started a thread celebrating the M-42 Zeiss Jena lenses. How about a club for the common man! How about a club for the little guys! How about a club for the Cosmicars, the Cambrons, the Focals, the Industrars, the Rexatars, and all the other off-brand, house-brand, little-known, and frankly weird lenses of the world!!
So if you have a shot that truly shows off what your lens can do in the hands of a master (you), post it here. If the lens is truly offbeat, post a picture of the lens as well. So to start things off, I have two shots (both taken yesterday evening) to show off two of my weird lenses... First my Auto-Rikenon 50/1.7 (m-42, circa 1969) Next my LZOS MC Jupiter-9 85/2 (m-42, bought new this year from Russia) (yeah, I know, the EXIF says 50mm...I forgot to update the shake control setting...)
Bring em' on... Cult Classics in Third Party Lenses. Related Links: Kilfitt and Zoomar Lenses (Stephen Gandy) [7/2001] Index: Executive Summary Mirror Lockup Wide Angle Lenses Related Postings Vendors: Angenieux (France) Century Precision Optics (USA) Kiron (Japan) Novoflex (Germany) Questar, Meade, Celestron.. Samyang (Korea) Sigma (Japan) Tamron (Japan) Tokina (Japan) Vivitar (Japan) Third Party Lenses with Cult Followings Some third party lenses have achieved such fame that prices have skyrocketed as they have attained a cult following of amateur and pro photographers.
Here is a brief look at some of my favorite cult status third party and older OEM lenses and their Manufacturer's history. Angenieux (France) Angenieux is a French third party lens manufacturer that ranks with Schneider and Zeiss as one of the world's top lens makers. Angenieux lenses are unfamiliar to most 35mm SLR users because they are very expensive and come in only a few mounts, chiefly Leica.
Angenieux 90mm f/1.8 Angenieux's cult status started early. Tamron. Www.starryland.com/cgi-bin/board/data/Photograph/lens.txt. Lenses. Canon EOS lens Adapters - Using Manual focus lenses on Canon EOS bodies. • You are here --> BobAtkins.com > photography > eosfaq > This Page Left:Bower fisheye manual focus Center: Vivitar 85/1.4 manual focus Right: Zeiss 21/2.8 manual focus A common question from Canon EOS owners is whether older manual focus lenses from other manufacturers can be used with a Canon EOS body.
The answer is a qualified "yes" in many cases. Of course you don't get autofocus, nor do you get any sort of focus confirmation unless you use a special adapter with built in electronics. In addition you don't get any sort of automatic iris operation. Stop Down Metering In most SLRs and DSLRs, focusing is done at full aperture, and if you set the aperture to, say, f11, it remains fully open until just before exposure, then it stops down for the exposure and opens up again. Focusing Focusing the lens is another issue. AF confirmation chip A third alternative is to use a lens adaptor with what is called an "AF confirmation chip" attached. AF confirmation chip attached to adapter Tamron Adaptall.
No metering lenses on Nikon DSLRs discussion topics. Habitat: note/photo/3PartyLens. Source: (currently unavailible) Third Party Lenses with Cult Followings Some third party lenses have achieved such fame that prices have skyrocketed as they have attained a of amateur and pro photographers. Here is a brief look at some of my favorite third party and older OEM lenses and their Manufacturer's history. Before You Dismiss Old Lenses.... Angenieux (France) Angenieux Lenses from mid-1980s F/l f/stop 25mm 75mm 180mm Angenieux is a French third party lens manufacturer that ranks with Schneider and Zeiss as one of the world's top lens makers.
Angenieux lenses are unfamiliar to most 35mm SLR users because they are very expensive and come in only a few mounts, chiefly Leica. Some of their earlier preset lenses were much less expensive, but still multiples of the cost of similar speed and focal length lenses. Angenieux 90mm f/1.8 Angenieux's started early. Angenieux invented the inverse telephoto concept with their first designs. Century Precision Lenses. Vintage Lenses For Video | Discover Great Lenses For Your Video Needs.
Vintage Pentax Lenses. Soviet Russian Lenses. Start. Vivitar Lenses. M42 Screw Mount Lenses. Fujinon Lenses. M42 Lenses. Hoya Lenses. M42 Thread Mount Lenses. Lenses. Um, as you might imagine, I have a LOT of lenses. In fact I've found ones I didn't even know I had till I started reorganizing! The bulk of my lenses are of course accounted for on the camera pages, by virtue of being associated with -- or permanently attached to -- their respective cameras. This section is for those OTHER lenses, the ones I've picked up along the way to supplement the primary lenses on the various cameras that are capable of becoming systems, as well as the standouts that merit their own 15 minutes of fame.
I should start by saying that I don't have any objective lens testing equpment. Ha ha! Wait, wait, I have to catch my breath after that one... I was going to sort them by mount but I realized that you can adapt most mounts to most other mounts if you care to, so it made more sense to group them by relative focal length. Related Links Search this site!
Manual Focus Forum. Manual lenses with EOS cameras. Using manual lenses and telescopes with EOS cameras. Copyright © 2001-2014 NK Table of Contents. Introduction Adapter rings Adapter ring compatibility problems and infinity focus Problems with Canon FD manual lenses Focussing What is stop-down metering? But my camera has no aperture lever! Old and new stop-down metering styles How to use the old stop-down metering style (display shows something other than “00”) How to use the new stop-down metering style (display shows “00”) Potential problems Adapting EF lenses to non-EOS cameras More information Introduction.
One area of interest to a lot of Canon EOS camera users involves attaching old manual lenses and telescopes to their autofocus cameras. Adapter rings. First of all you have to buy the appropriate physical lens adapter required to get your lens attached to your camera. Adapter ring compatibility problems and infinity focus Problems with Canon FD manual lenses. Focussing. Habitat: note/photo/3PartyLens. The Aggregate: Old Film Camera Lenses On New Digital Cameras. H. G. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Center for Visualization & Virtual Environments University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0046 Initial release: September 26, 2009; last update: July 7, 2013 This document should be cited using something like the bibtex entry: A well-maintained 40-year-old lens from a 135 SLR (Single Lens Reflex) camera can be just as good as it was new -- and may be an excellent lens for your new DSLR (Digital SLR).
Or it might not even be usable. The photo above shows my Sony Alpha A350 with a Mamiya/Sekor 55mm f/1.8 lens mounted using a focus-confirm M42 adapter. Which lens mounts can you use? Different brands of DSLR generally use different types of lens mount -- modifying a lens with an incompatible mount to work on your DSLR probably is a lot more trouble than it's worth. Which mounts are fully compatible?
Even when older lenses mechanically fit, they often do not provide the full functionality of newer lenses. Photo Cornucopia. Price is some times a good reason to use Alt lenses, but not always. Some alternative lenses can be very cheap compared to the equivalent OEM lenses but with very high levels of performance. However, some alternative lenses can also be the most expensive of their kind, possibly due to scarcity, quality or both. The specific method used to attach lens 'A' to camera 'B' will of course depend on the specific camera and lens in question.
In general, a specially made ring, plate or tube called an 'adapter' is used between the camera and lens and this adapter will have been made for this specific camera body and lens mount combination. Other camera and lens combinations need to use the specific adapter for that combination. Stop Down Metering, the biggest disadvantages of using adapted lenses In almost all cases the lens will not be able to communicate with the camera so the lens will simply be physically attached to the camera and that's all.
How do you focus Alt lenses? Where to buy adapters? Portrait lenses compared: from 75 to 105mm. ACP - Main index. Make the Photo - How to use a classic manual lens on your DSLR camera. Cameras keep dropping in price while adding amazing new capabilities. The cameras being sold to consumers these days are good enough for pro-level work. For example, a recent episode of the television show "House" was shot entirely using a Canon 5D Mark II camera. Meanwhile, the price of lenses keeps rising a little every year. Instead of dropping in cost as technology improves, the prices are going the other direction - inching up 5% to 10% a year. A good lens starts in the neighborhood of $500 but often costs much more.
Why use old lenses? A new entry-level 35mm f/2 Canon prime lens sells for $319 dollars. Another reason to try using a classic lens is feel and shooting experience. Which old lenses work with my SLR? Every lens is designed to fit into a certain type of lens mount. Along with the mount, each lens is designed to have the back of the lens at a very specific distance from the camera's internal image sensor. Modern Canon lenses are designed with a 44mm FFD. Stop-Down Metering. The Aggregate: Old Film Camera Lenses On New Digital Cameras. H. G. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Center for Visualization & Virtual Environments University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0046 Initial release: September 26, 2009; last update: July 23, 2014 This document should be cited using something like the bibtex entry: A well-maintained 40-year-old lens from a 135 SLR (Single Lens Reflex) camera can be just as good as it was new -- and may be an excellent lens for your new DSLR (Digital SLR).
The photo above shows my Sony Alpha A350 with a Mamiya/Sekor 55mm f/1.8 lens mounted using a focus-confirm M42 adapter. Which lens mounts can you use? Different brands of DSLR generally use different types of lens mount -- modifying a lens with an incompatible mount to work on your DSLR probably is a lot more trouble than it's worth. Which mounts are fully compatible? Even when older lenses mechanically fit, they often do not provide the full functionality of newer lenses.
Alien lenses using adapters. Secondhand Lenses - Unusual Lenses. Minolta Normal Lenses. The Retro Way: My Other Photography. Veijo Vilva I started this page as an adjunct to my pinhole photography page, as a page for old lensed cameras, an alternative to the trendy and blind chase after the latest and most automatic photographic systems and the dismissal of everything old as unusable for serious photography.
One day it occurred to me to mount a very old and quite bad medium format lens on my old Praktica LLC, and everything changed with the first photos, very impressionistic photos, which were photographically quite appealing despite their abominable image quality. After some more photos I began to ponder the possibilities offered by an unholy marriage between old lenses and digital SLRs, heretically dismissing the prevailing AF lenses. The idea kept nagging, and I acquired an EOS 350D -- for my ninety years old Meniscus.
The Old Camera Page transformed into a page also presenting alternative lenses for digital photography, lenses not designed to be used on AF SLRs or even SLRs at all. Captain Jacks Steinheil Lens Page. Paralleling the introduction of the black automatic Auto-D lenses in 1965, Steinheil also introduced automatic diaphragm macro lenses in four different focal lengths. These have become among the most sought after lenses for the Exakta. Each focuses to extraordinarily close distances using a dual focusing helicoid mount. The 35mm Macro focuses so close that the front element will actually touch the subject upon which it is focused. The four macro lens models included: 35mm f2.8 Auto-Macro-Quinaron 55mm f1.9 Auto-Macro-Quinon 100mm f2.8 Auto-Macro-Quinar 135mm f2.8 Auto-Macro-Tele Quinar Some variations in the nomenclature on the lens rings of these lenses exist.
Manual Focus Lenses. The Alternative Lens Kilothread: F me in the A-mount. Zeiss Lenses. Schneider Optics. The Retro Way: My Other Photography. Cheap Super Telephoto Lenses Part I – T-mount Spiratone, Vivitar etc « Olympus/Zuiko. A while ago, I had discussed the advantages of mirror lenses as cheap long focus lenses, and more importantly, the fact that they could be used in hand held photography. In the same post, I had explored alternative lens configurations that were available at reasonable cost, which would enable an amateur photographer like myself the opportunity to experiment with super-telephoto lenses.
The choices I had that were available in Olympus mounts were considerably varied, and although all the lens and teleconverter combinations would provide a reasonably fast, cheap lens in the super telephoto range, none of them were suitable for hand-held photography. There are some other alternatives I had not really explored since they involved even older lenses, from the 60′s and early 70′s, specifically, universal thread T mount lenses. These were the old days, before the development of modern multi-coated optical glass and computer aided design. What of the lenses? Like this: Like Loading... Camera Eccentric: Info. Agfa Ansco Catalog 1941 Bausch and Lomb Photographic Lenses and Accessories 1928 Bausch and Lomb Photographic Lenses 1941 Bausch and Lomb Photographic Lenses 1920 1906 Bausch and Lomb Lenses: "Aids to Artistic Aims" What Lens Shall I Buy?
Bausch & Lomb Optical CO. 1919? Bausch and Lomb Sigmar Lenses for Portrait Photography Bausch and Lomb Protar Lenses 1960 Bausch and LombPhotographic Lenses 1910 Bausch and LombPhotographic Lenses 1912 Bausch and LombSuper Baltar Lenses 1965 Burke and James 1967 Catalog Highlights Burke and James 1951 Catalog Highlights Burke and James UsedLens Offerings and Price List Zenza Bronica EC Instruction Manual Calumet 1965 Camera and Lens Catalog Calumet 1970 Photographic Equipment for the Professional Calumet 4 X 5" View Camera Instruction Manual Calumet Caltar II Lenses 1978 Super Cambo Camera Catalog Taylor-Hobson Cooke Lenses Catalog 1920's Taylor-Hobson Cooke Lenses Catalog 1930's Dallmeyer Lenses and Apparatus Catalog 1920/30's Dallmeyer Lenses and Apparatus Catalog 1931.
The Unofficial Guide to Ricoh SLR Cameras and Rikenon Lenses. Using older lenses with a Pentax DSLR. The Aggregate: Old Film Camera Lenses On New Digital Cameras.