M4/3 Porn Thread

All this is is a microscope with a photo projection tube on it--that's it. The tube was designed for a film SLR, and now has a GF1 attached to it. This is a classic and simple photomicrography setup. Your Dad will instantly recognize the classic Nikon EFM photo unit and the Leitz Diavert microscope.

In fact, it's the inverted miscroscope that makes it look complicated. Ask your Dad.

The photo tube looks complicated because it has a built-in shutter and metering system for a DSLR that is only a film-holding body. I don't use any of that, so the entire top tube is a lens and spacing tubes--that's it. But it's FF ready :) The periscope on the tube is not used--in fact I removed the beamsplitter unit.

The flash unit it super simple--it's just a half-silvered plate beam splitter with a flash pointed at it.

How many pieces of glass are in a well-corrected zoom lens? A hell of a lot of them, but they are well coated and so have excellent transmission.
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Steve W
weather photos: http://home.comcast.net/~scwest/atmo/
 
Do you have some images taken with the GF1 and the Voigtlander?
 
The GF1 is dwarfed by my modification--the GF1 sits at the very top :) THe MFT to M39 adapter is from china, the M39 extension rings are from the Ukraine, the microscope is from Germany, and the photo projection extension is from Japan. The flash is the old Vivitar with a GN of about 140. Whenever I press the remote on the GF1, I tell myself "Fire in the hole!" How's that for scouring the planet for my modification?



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Steve W
weather photos: http://home.comcast.net/~scwest/atmo/
Now that is hard core!
 
Some pics of my new Panasonic M mount adapter and Leica 35mm Summilux f/1.4 ASPH M lens. Taken with my iPhone 3Gs















 
wow... a USD 5,000 manual focus Leica jewel.... that really is p0rn, especially since there are no diamonds in it.

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'Photos are what remain when the memories are forgotten' - Angular Mo.
 
I guess mine will be the fat chick equivalent. Or maybe amateur compared to all the "babes" above.
to me, it looks to be of the "amateur" genre.... if, you know what I mean.....
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'Photos are what remain when the memories are forgotten' - Angular Mo.
 
Nice set:







 
I've posted some of these before. I have an album that I add to to describe modifications I've made to the E-P2:
http://www.the-meissners.org/2010-large-albums/2010-pimp-my-ep2/index.html

First up is a leather case from Aka-asahi (which unfortunately is not yet back open for business, but they say by the end of July they should accept orders once again):



I liked the Aka-asahi case having a cut out for the wired shutter release/USB cable, but I didn't like the fact that I lost the tripod socket. So I used an awl and drill to add a hole for the tripod, and got a tripod screw from ebay to connect it:





I changed the strap on the E-P2 to use a Domke strap:



I do renaissance faires and science fiction conventions, and often times have a mascot on the camera. This is Nutzo, who is dressed in a green hat that mirrors my renaissance faire costume:



Nutzo now has a girlfriend Livinea who is an artist squirrel, and Racky a racoon for my newspaper photographer getup. I'm not sure I have pictures of them at present.

I bought a Leica clone lens hood for the 14-42mm lens. It does vignette at 14mm unfortunately:



This isn't a hack on the camera, but I got a battery wallet from greenbatteries that allows me to hold 1 BLS-1 battery, 2 AA batteries (for the FL-36), and a spare memory card:



I had previously used the Sima Quickonnect for my C-2100UZ because it was small enough not to block the battery door. Fortunately for the E-P2, it also does not block the door either. This allows me to put the camera on a tripod/monopod, with a quick release, and be able to change the battery or memory card easily. Unfortunately, the Aka-asahi case doesn't have a cutout for the battery/memory card:



Next I got a Wolverine MyMovie pocket camera. I got it specifically because it was one of the few pocket video cameras that took video input. I bought the connector cable from Wolverine, and a rca connector cable from Radio Shack, so that I can monitor the camera from afar:





I recently bought the SEMA-1 external microphone:



My big hack though is to embed the E-P2 inside of a 5x7 Kodak Pony Premo #4 view camera that was made in 1910-1915:











Because the camera is all of the way on the right side, there was no room to attach the wired shutter release, so I made a crude wooden holder to attach a mechanical shutter release to the camera:



 
It is just about impossible to get one of these mirror lenses (300mm or less) on e-bay at any kind of reasonable price. I gave up on it.

How do you like it? Can you post some photos and tell us about your experience with it?
 
Canon FD lenses 50mmF1.4 and 100mmF2.8 are coming. I'm curious how these will perform. The viewfinder works! Not great, but does the MF job. If I want a big, bright viewfinder I'll take my A900 ;-)

 
Schneider Kreuzhach Xeon 25/0.95 with SLR Magic C mount adapter.

My poor mans M9 with Noctilux



 

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