05-16-2013, 02:16 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-09-2013, 07:17 AM by Brightcolours.)
It will be interesting and fun if we (PZ readers) share our unusual lens/camera combinations, home made accessories, adapters and other hobby projects with eachother. So, do you have a Leica R on your Nikon D4, a Canon EF 1.0 L USM on your NEX-5N, a Zeiss-Contax 85mm on your Canon 1D mk III, share it please 
Here is one of my more silly projects:
I have this old film projector lens from a Dutch instruments company from the past (Old Delft), a Delfinor 140mm f1.8.
I thought it would be fun and interesting to be able to mount it on my DSLR (Canon EOS 450D).
I cut the top and bottom off a small can (formerly filled with olives), and glued that to a piece of plywood. To that I screwed an EF mount which I salvaged from a deceased Sigma lens.
I lined the inside of the tin with some soft packing material to make the lens fit more snugly, and spray-painted the inside and outside black.
This now allows me to (crudely) push/pull focus.
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Above you see the lens posing on a Canon EOS 300/Rebel 2000.
The lens obviously does not perform to modern standards, especially since it was never designed for photography. I have not experimented with it much yet (weather is rather rainy), and I do not know if the sample that follows is optimally focussed on that tulip, so not clear yet on its maximum resolution (which is not high anyway).![[Image: gallery_10230_17_56100.jpg]](http://forum.photozone.de/uploads/gallery/album_17/gallery_10230_17_56100.jpg)
I was surprised how pleasant the bokeh is in the background. The front bokeh seems less agreeable. Obviously, this lens can't be stopped down... So 140mm f1.8 it is.
Here is one of my more silly projects:
I have this old film projector lens from a Dutch instruments company from the past (Old Delft), a Delfinor 140mm f1.8.
I thought it would be fun and interesting to be able to mount it on my DSLR (Canon EOS 450D).
I cut the top and bottom off a small can (formerly filled with olives), and glued that to a piece of plywood. To that I screwed an EF mount which I salvaged from a deceased Sigma lens.
I lined the inside of the tin with some soft packing material to make the lens fit more snugly, and spray-painted the inside and outside black.
This now allows me to (crudely) push/pull focus.
[ATTACHMENT NOT FOUND]
Above you see the lens posing on a Canon EOS 300/Rebel 2000.
The lens obviously does not perform to modern standards, especially since it was never designed for photography. I have not experimented with it much yet (weather is rather rainy), and I do not know if the sample that follows is optimally focussed on that tulip, so not clear yet on its maximum resolution (which is not high anyway).
I was surprised how pleasant the bokeh is in the background. The front bokeh seems less agreeable. Obviously, this lens can't be stopped down... So 140mm f1.8 it is.