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Coming from the man who truly hacks lenses from all kinds of improbable sources, is that a compliment? ;) Or a dire warning, haha. The NX was really just the camera I had at hand and it's easy to ...

I keep saying I need to get a 3d printer! Just what I need… another complex hobby 😅 I can buy a metal helicoid for not much at all, it's just mating the two that is the issue. But I could see how ...

Not on your list: the thrill of the hunt and the challenge in adapting lenses! I only got into adapting lenses just over a year ago. It's a wonderful hobby, since I shoot with something almost ...

So I fell in love with this lens after coming across it on a Japanese blog by sheer accident, and then finding it on yet another when I went digging. Let me say up front: there are no adapters for ...

You got a fantastic price! You're not going to regret it. I have the fp and want the fp L. I only shoot stills (though I'd like to try video someday), and it's an excellent stills camera. Using it ...

Wouldn't Starsuchtig be more accurate? ;) I just found your posts and 1. WOW 2. I need to know more about your debayered fp please!! My husband's the one into astrophotography, I'm the fp shooter. ...

Yep… although there are plants (mostly) in focus in the mid-ground, which is super weird. Same number I got using a calculator. I tried focusing around that mark (hard to be sure since the distance ...

Indeed, it didn't actually focus, I wasn't actually trying to shoot it, I was trying to see what would finally make the lens go to <0.8m. It definitely wasn't 80% of a meter, was my point. Various. ...

Hey folks. I got a used copy of the 8-16mm HSM for my SD1M from B&H. Something is funky with the focus… AF claims objects 6-8" away are at 0.8m and everything else is at the infinity mark or ...

The one I bought claimed infinity focus and it looks to be the same as that one — same as most others — with a different name. And the 67mm lens lens barely vignettes until stopped way down, even ...

Fair enough! I take those rumors with a grain of salt then, people also claimed the Auto Alpa 50mm 1.7 lens is the same as the Chinon 50mm 1.7 lens and they are wildly different (recently got my ...

Pretty sure it’s the 1.4 (or 1.2?) that is alleged to be by Tomioka. The 1.7 is wildly inexpensive and very available.

Let me first say I don't have access to machining tools. 😅 Is there a favorite c-mount adapter that'll let me reach infinity? I have just one of the cheap ones available everywhere, and can't ...

I don't find it strange at all. I'm 38 and while I used the phone as my main camera for years (I was sick a lot of the time, not up for anything fussy)… last year something in me snapped and now I ...

Hey folks. Tonight's golden hour with an adapted Kodak 63mm cine lens, which can't reach infinity because I don't have a good adapter (yet). Focusing is surprisingly not too bad even without focus ...

Beautiful. And so sharp!

I'm in the US and can pay with PayPal. Please PM if you have one you're not using. Thanks!

Nothing quite like the Foveon 3d pop… those little stamens (?) in the bottom left look like they're trying to escape the photo!!

Unfortunate, for a photography forum 😩

Beautiful… Looks so good especially for being ISO 400.