Camera Talk

On Friday, I decided to take the Trioplan from an old Pentacon Pentona that I planned to bin and see if I could use it for digital.

Briefly, I fit it to an M-mount lens adapter and made a few modifications with a Dremel.

I was very happy with the results.

» Here is my writeup, a video and some sample photos.

Nice job! And, yes, that out-of-focus stuff is lovely on this lens.

Nice project. It is refreshing to find that digital cameras may have a purpose in life.

At the rate companies keep dropping film types, we may all have to resort to this sooner than later.

PF

I have two Meyer-Optik lenses, a 100mm and a 250mm with Exakta mounts. I bought an adapter to fit them on a Canon EF mount. I haven't taken them out for any real shooting yet. But, just from my front door they do well.

Nice job, Mike. How about showing us something a bit more colourful, if you can?

Last year, I took it up to New York City, attached to the Sony A7 II. It was a very dreary day and rained most of the time that I was out. I'm still pondering putting it back on the work bench and using the Dremel to remove the square corners. Wide open, it's sharp in the middle but shows a lot of Tessar-like roundness to the out-of-focus areas. Stopped down, it's reasonably sharp across the frame, once you get to f/8 or f/11. You can see how this lens tends to vignette wide open. It is not a perfect lens, which is what makes it so interesting.

Very interesting, thanks Mike. The bokeh seems to be very smooth. Colour rendition is also good.

Rounded, but not swirly. Good.

PF

A great project.