Outlandish lenses
Lens experiments
- Lens experiments gallery
- Freelensing
- Digital pinhole photography with a home made pinhole lens
- Using a 100 year old lens from a Kodak Folding Brownie
- Sink drainer bokeh modifier
- Helios lensbaby
- Helios 44-2 with front element reversed
Projector lenses
- Projector lens gallery
- 35mm slide projector lenses
- 16mm cine projector lenses
- 35mm cine projector lenses
Classic manual focus SLR lenses
- Classic lens gallery
- 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 f/1.4
- Minolta MD Rokkor 85mm f/2.0
- Helios 44-2 58mm f/2.0
- Olympus Pen F lenses on full-frame digital
- Super-Takumar 50mm f/1.4 (1st version with 8 elements)
- Industar 50-2 50mm f/3.5
Miscellany
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.
New & updated pages
- Freelensing 3 new images Added 20 March 2024
- BelOMO 35KP 1,8/100 projector lens Added 16 January 2024
- Isco-Optic Ultra-Star HD 90mm f/2 MC projector lens Updated 27 July 23
- Olympus Pen F lenses on full-frame digital gallery Added 05.06.23
- Isco Rollei-Projar 85mm f/2.8 projector lens Added 28.05.23
- Leitz Colorplan 90mm f/2.5 projector lens Updated 21.05.23 with an improved technique for adapting to a modern digital camera