Topic: Pretty cool lens setup

[gary m]

Of course, hook it to your favorite film SLR http://www.jonaskroyer.com/photography/photoref/archives/1049

[jojonas~]

ohyeah, I've started seeing more of this on the net recently. so someone's making money on it now? go for it! I think it's cool a shame to bust up some good cameras for it but yeah, as long as they don't bust up too many of em

[Francois]

A spring to hold the shutter open 

[gary m]

I would agree about busting a good camera, but there are definately plenty of donor models that dont work. At least in my camera collection I think its a decent mod.

[sethasaurus]

He did a good job of adapting it but he used a chipped lens and gets diamond shape flares on his pictures, then has to use Photoshop to get rid of it?
The old folders are pretty common - I'd say almost as common as box cameras, but to sacrifice the old Zeiss Ikonette.. especially with good bellows is a bit of sacrilege.
I think unless you're going to do it right, you should just shoot film.

[Ed Wenn]

I think unless you're going to do it right, you should just shoot film.

While engaging hat doffing mode to the max in light of the respect I have for Gary, I tend to agree with Seth on this one. It seems a bit pointless, really because the images in the example gallery still looked (for the most part) sterile and, well.....digital. I checked out the first 10 or so example images and when I got to the one which was captioned, "Street photo from Aarhus - Denmark. With added vintage effects" I kind of lost interest. If you use a nice old lens, but still have to add 'vintage effects', then seriously....just use a standard DSLR lens and add the effects anyway.

I guess on one level, using this or that piece of gear can be inspirational, so it could work well in that regard. Hopefully it'll get the modder to realise that if he is after the look that I think he's after....then maybe he should be using film in the first place. I spent about 4 years wondering why my digi snaps didn't look like Weegee's photos. Then I picked up a Holga, loaded in some b/w and got closer to my goal in under a week. The penny dropped.

[gary m]

I agree that hooking this up to a digi cam isnt going to help out too much. To be honest, the only thing that I have seen that works halfway decent with a digital is the lens baby. 

Also I don't condone destroying a vintage classic if they work. The main thing I wanted to point out was how well the lens modification was done. This setup or something close would probally be something I would like to try with my Great Wall camera.

In any case, even though the example I posted was done on a digi cam, I see the potential for some use with a film camera. Hope I get some time to try this with the GW.

[Ed Wenn]

Gary, that makes total sense....apologies for missing your main point. I agree too that the mod was done well (the rail idea in particular was great). When I strapped a Zeiss Ikon bellows and lens onto the front of my Great Wall a few years ago it didn't occur to me to try and use the rail, so it was all pretty freestyle and quite hard to compose the shot and then hold it steady in order to release the shutter.

[Mil Mascaras]

This is cool. I have a Rollei 35 (Tessar) lens that was adapted to LTM. You have to scale focus but it's very sharp.