bcostin
Well-known
Very cool hack. I wonder if I could rig up an adapter for my C-44's lenses?
athos
Still like film
Hello...
Was the unsharpness on the bar code due to the lens or depth of field, please?
Was the unsharpness on the bar code due to the lens or depth of field, please?
landsknechte
Well-known
Very impressive! As someone who hacked a Holga lens to a Minolta 5D before you could buy them commerically, it's nice to see someone similarly demented.
Bryce
Well-known
Mated, you say.
Let's all hope they don't reproduce!
Canons and Argusi are both irritatingly difficult to get a picture out of, but for different reasons. One overcomplicated, the other oversimplified. The offspring could either be genius or torture.
An interesting hack, as said. Looks like it could have promise with the lens wide open for portraiture or 'lo fi' street photos.
Let's all hope they don't reproduce!
Canons and Argusi are both irritatingly difficult to get a picture out of, but for different reasons. One overcomplicated, the other oversimplified. The offspring could either be genius or torture.
An interesting hack, as said. Looks like it could have promise with the lens wide open for portraiture or 'lo fi' street photos.
murrayatuptown
Established
Very cool.
Wide open, not surprising...isn't that typical in the Brick also? Being a Triplet design, I thought it needed f/11-16 for full sharp frame.
That's a beautiful old Kodak lens/shutter too.
Here's an idea, if I don't have it conceptually backwards...
Whatever size accessories your vintage C3 used (Series V?), a Telek or equivalent negative diopter lens would lengthen the f.l. a bit, perhaps allowing it to sit further away from the sensor.
Murray
Wide open, not surprising...isn't that typical in the Brick also? Being a Triplet design, I thought it needed f/11-16 for full sharp frame.
That's a beautiful old Kodak lens/shutter too.
Here's an idea, if I don't have it conceptually backwards...
Whatever size accessories your vintage C3 used (Series V?), a Telek or equivalent negative diopter lens would lengthen the f.l. a bit, perhaps allowing it to sit further away from the sensor.
Murray
raid
Dad Photographer
This is cool stuff.
The Cintar is reportedly very sharp with extremely high resolution in the center. Did you see such sharpness?
Raid
The Cintar is reportedly very sharp with extremely high resolution in the center. Did you see such sharpness?
Raid
Terao
Kiloran
I love lens hacking, got a little project of my own going at the moment 
Avotius
Some guy
raid said:
absolutly, it was so sharp that I went and took a bunch of pictures with it wide open or close to it and blew them up to 40 inches and it still looked good!
jan normandale
Film is the other way
I'm wondering if there will now be a run on Cintar lenses at ebay ... j/k/h
hairy_paperclip
Member
jan normandale said:
funny. x_x
Honus
carpe diem
What a great experiment. I really like the b&w images you posted. The combo of old & new has an interesting quality. The veiling flare renders well.
I like this one:
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=42408&d=1173967395
I like this one:
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=42408&d=1173967395
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john_van_v
Well-known
... I just thought...dead camera, lens (with fungus), digital camera...why not...
Great attitude, great work.:angel:
Avotius
Some guy
A little update on this project, I have not used the argus lens in a while, my 20D is having problems and I have not got around to getting it fixed. I plan too get it fixed sooner or later, just preoccupied I guess.