Circa 1908 Lens on a 5D

[J Eddington]

These photos are just too grreat! I am surprized at how much they held the film quality with the digital body. Check them out.
cinema5D.com • View topic - 102 year old lens on a 5DmkII - Images inside!

[Zack Davis]

That is insane, and awesome and I want one! Hahaha...

[Mask]

Very Interesting ... An Old Dog doing new tricks ...

[georgep6506]

Fantastic! I want one!

[mdparthum]

That is definitely a neat way to mix the present with the past. The images are pretty interesting too!

[TheFantasticG]

Impressive indeed.

[wclavey]

I have a contraption I use on my Olympus e-500... I have a macro bellows from my Olympus OM-1 kit that I mount on it with an OM-4/3s adapter. On the front of the bellows I have an adapter made by SK Grimes that matches the threads on an old metal Bronica S2A screw-on body cap. I dremel'ed out a hole in the body cap into which I can screw various lenses, often using cardboard gaskets to mount them.

But using this set-up, I have been able to use a number of odd old lenses, including my old brass lenses from the early 1900s, using the bellows to focus. I have mostly done experimenting with them, but I have a few pictures in my LUG gallery, I think, that I took using an old French 13x18cm (5x7) LF brass lens.

I have a few single lens menisci of various focal lengths that I would also like to try out, but I haven't figured out how to mount them yet since they do not have enough threads to stick through even a cardboard gasket.

[jeffclow]

That is fascinating....thanks much for posting the link.

[venchka]

Somewhere on the internet is a collection of photos by a japanese photographer. He has mounted dozens, maybe hundreds, of old lenses on a 5D body. My 1907 lens is too sharp. It doesn't look old at all.

[The Philos]

I wish there were petzvals for 35mm format.

[venchka]

There are. The little ones. Attached to a digital camera via brass tubes.

[The Philos]

I demand examples and where to buy such tubes ;).

[venchka]

S.K. Grimes makes them to order. A wee Petzval lens on a small sensor may not show the swirl that defines the Petzval "look". These lenses "do their thing" when used on formats larger than they were designed for.

[janikphoto]

That's similar - but with a much better mount/adaptor - to my 5DmkII lens project I tried this spring. I mounted an old Argus anastigmat lens to some cardboard and gaffer taped it to me Canon. It won't shoot at infinity, but it made some really fun macro stuff! I'll try to find a link to the pics... aaaahhh, here's a few images from the lens:

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