Outlandish lenses
Lens experiments
Freelensing
Turn a 35mm slide projector lens into a macro lens
Digital pinhole photography with a home made pinhole lens
Using a 100 year old lens from a Kodak Folding Brownie
Turn a 16mm cine projector lens into a camera lens
Sink drainer bokeh modifier
Helios lensbaby
Helios 44-2 with front element reversed
Classic manual focus lenses
Canon 50mm f/1.2 (Leica screw mount)
SMC Pentax-A 50mm f/1.2
Tamron SP 17mm f/3.5 (51B)
Tamron 24mm f/2.5 (01B)
Tamron SP 90mm f/2.5 Macro (52B)
Tamron SP 70-150mm f/2.8 Soft (51A)
Pentax-110 24mm f/2.8
Minolta MD W.ROKKOR 35mm f/1.8
Minolta MD Rokkor 50mm f1.4
Minolta MD Rokkor 85mm f2.0
Helios 44-2 58mm f2.0
Olympus Pen F lenses on full-frame digital
Super-Takumar 50mm f/1.4 (1st version with 8 elements)
Miscellany
Latest pages
- Super-Takumar 50mm f/1.4 (1st version with 8 elements) Added 8 October 2022
- Canon 50mm f/1.2 (Leica screw mount) Updated 8 October 2022
- Olympus Pen F lenses on full-frame digital Updated 2 October 2022
- Helios lensbaby updated 21 June 2022
- Helios 44-2 with front element reversed updated 18 June 2022
- Helios 44-2 58mm f2.0 added 4 May 2022
Outlandish lenses is all about using adapted lenses on modern mirrorless digital cameras. You'll find articles here about my experiments with some very weird lenses indeed (including some not designed to be used on a camera at all!) together with articles on some of my favourite classic manual focus SLR lenses.
Thinking outside the box like this can be a wonderful way to boost your creativity by allowing you to see the world in new ways. But most of all, it's just a whole lot of fun!
If you haven't tried adapting old lenses to your digital mirrorless camera before, start with the General notes on using adapted lenses article.