Vintage Lens And Camera Reviews, Gear And Info
Take a look at these five uncommon, but good value vintage lenses. The Olympus Zuiko 50mm f1.8, Cosina 28mm f2.8, Olympus Zuiko 35 – 105mm f3.5, Jupiter 11 135mm f4 and the Ohnar 300mm mirror lens adapted and mounted on a mirrorless camera.
Take a look back at these weird vintage camera commercials from the 1980’s and 1990’s. Minolta, Canon, Olympus, and Nikon were producers of some wacky promos for there latest cameras of the time.
Comparing the Viltrox EF-M1 adapter versus the Viltrox EF-M2 speedbooster for use on GH5 MFT M43 cameras and a Sigma 18-35mm lens. People think you have to get a speedbooster of some sort to use this setup.
I used the Panasonic G9 camera to find the Panasonic Leica DG Vario-Elmar 100-400mm f/4-6.3 maximum aperture value for each focal length. See the video below as I turn the 100-400mm lens with it set “wide open” and get the f-stop number.
Testing out the $1200 MFT Panasonic Leica DG Nocticron 42.5mm f/1.2 up against the vintage lens SMC Pentax-A 50mm F1.7 when mounted on a speedbooster.
Taking a look at the vintage Zenit Helios MC 44M-7 58mm f/2.0. This is a standard lens for FF and APS-C, manufactured from 1958 to 1992 and now discontinued.
A personal choice on what is the best vintage beginner 35mm SLR film camera to get started shooting manual. The Olympus OM-1 film camera is considered by many to be a great pick when learning the ropes with shooting film. Tuber ‘Shootswithcoops’ brings us this insightful look at the Olympus OM-1 and why he feels…
Video review of one of my favorite vintage camera lenses. The Super-Multi-Coated Pentax Takumar 85mm f1.8. Tuber Mark Holtze walks us through the build quality, image quality and output of this classic manual focus portrait length lens.