Vintage Cameras and Lenses
Well, almost: one’s a 55mm. I recently acquired a vintage lens I have long coveted – the Asahi Pentax Super-Takumar 55mm 1.8. This means I am now the proud owner of a collection of 1960s-1980s 50mm lenses from what I consider the five leading consumer SLR brands of the 1970s, namely : Minolta, Olympus, Canon, […]
So, my love affair with film continues. This time it took 9 months to go through a 23 frame roll of Ilford FP4 Plus and by the time I came to develop it, I was a bit out of practice. This led to me adding the stop bath before tipping out the developer and breaking […]
Three lenses, a camera and an auction (4) Manfrotto Art 190 Professional Tripod
Vintage Manfrotto Art 190 Professional Tripod Maybe this series of posts should be called ‘Three lenses, a camera, A TRIPOD, and an Auction” because the tripod is the only item that has served a practical purpose for me. I have a very nice Velbon UT63D travel tripod which collapses to a silly size and goes […]
This is the third post in the series about the lenses, camera and tripod I won in an online auction. let’s look at the Tokina RMC 25-50mm f4 zoom lens. The first thing I would say about it is that it is not as aesthetically pleasing to look at as the Zuiko. It is also […]
This post follows on from my previous post where I described how I won my first online auction and picked up an Olympus OM-10 and 3 lenses plus a Manfrotto tripod. Having purchased an adapter which allows me to mount Olympus O/OM lenses on my Canon 7D DSLR, I had a chance to put this […]
A while ago, I was attracted to the idea of buying cameras and lenses from the last century, especially the period 1960’s to 1990’s, in online auctions. The idea was to start a collection of vintage cameras and glass. There is something aesthetically appealing about many old SLR cameras and lenses. It’s the chic of […]