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Forum: Lens Clubs
01-28-2023, 03:03 PM
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Picture taken in Covid time, while I was busy repurposing an old beautifully decorated walnut cupboard with the aim of displaying/storing some of my old lenses.
The part pictured in this photo is protected by glass, and was meant to contain most of my M42 lenses. Mission impossible, I have too many, and some are too big.
In the end the bigger ones, plus a lot of macro optics (bellows heads, RMS, enlarging lenses useful for inverted use) are stored in the middle section of this piece of furniture, that unfortunately is not protected from dust.
The lower section is the biggest, but unfortunately the content is hidden behind wooden doors. I ended up storing there a few folding cameras (8x10" and 4x5"), plus Pentax 6x7 and Mamiya Press stuff.
Some of my M42 lenses are still in search of a place where they can be put on display, but at least I found a great place (visible!) for all my beloved repro heavyweights. Mos of them are real beauties :) :)
A solution is in the pipeline. I am short of room, so I decided to restore the top of another old cupboard and hang it on top of the heating element. No other place left in a huge room. My wife is speechless :hmm:
She knew I had a lot of photographic stuff but she didn't have the full picture of the situation... Fortunately she agreed to have in her room a very old portrait studio camera that takes the space of an armchair. I am consolidating everything in the same place, a rather standard city apartment, and I realised I had absolutely no room left for it in my studio.
If you spot a few intruders among the M42's, good eye: they are all adapted optics originally meant for Pentacon Six and Kiev 8x cameras.
I'd be very curious to see the solution found by other members to store/display their collection of lenses.
The most challenging aspect is to make all of them visible. At the point in time I took this picture, I already had around 80 lenses stored there, but most are just invisible (there are three or four in a row) cause the one in front hides the others...
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01-29-2023, 07:02 AM
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01-03-2023, 05:22 AM
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12-23-2022, 12:39 PM
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12-25-2022, 03:13 AM
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10-24-2022, 09:34 AM
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09-24-2022, 02:00 PM
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I imagined that much… still, keep us informed about any projects with the lens! The improvised shots are interesting to say the least.
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09-23-2022, 04:54 PM
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09-23-2022, 03:17 PM
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Wow! Impressive is an understatement. Let’s see some photos!
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09-23-2022, 07:02 AM
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07-22-2022, 08:30 AM
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 SLVR4346 by Jason Doss, on Flickr
Pentax K-1 mII Limited Silver and M50f1.4
My smallest lens sitting in the hood of my largest (K500f4.5).
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07-27-2022, 11:28 AM
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05-01-2022, 05:55 AM
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03-05-2022, 06:28 AM
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Maybe not a beautiful image or lens, but certainly one for my fetish of fast lenses - today I received this glass gem in the mail, a Zeiss R-Biotar 50/0.77, I hope I'll be able to adapt it to my Fuji X-E2, flange distance is extremely short and only allows focus at ~20cm distance.
It's certainly giving me Canon 7/50mm 0.95 vibes :D
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01-15-2022, 09:29 AM
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12-13-2021, 08:05 AM
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11-17-2021, 08:34 AM
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Forum: Lens Clubs
11-01-2008, 08:48 AM
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Lens porn, my favourite!
So how about something dirty?
My battered CZJ Flektogon 35/2.4. The optics are great, but the outside is somewhat scratched.
Getting in a bit closer:
Taken with smc Pentax-M 50/4 Macro + 36mm and 68mm tubes and AF280T.
Richard
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10-15-2021, 08:13 AM
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09-20-2021, 06:17 PM
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Pentax-110 70/2.8
Size comparison (with the Pentax-M 28/2.8):
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09-15-2021, 04:13 AM
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