This is my favorite odd lens. It's a a hundred year old Bausch & Lomb Animar C-mount lens that came on some throwaway 16mm magazine camera a seller threw in my box to get rid of. This this has a poor ape range, f2.7 to 16 only, no other controls, no focus, nothing. It is absoluly TINY, this thing is like an inch long, made entirely out of stainless steel and glass, and rotates with the smoothest feel with the finest firm little indexing clicks of any Lens I've ever felt. I keep it on a body just so I can rotate it because it feels so good, like the barrel is just floating along on teflon roller bearings and somehow the very peak of each click is a microscopic metal spring that just clicks over like a timepiece clockwork. I've got a dozen other fancy-ass collectable C lenses for my Bolex 16mm, and yet I put this on and everything looks sharp as shit and the colors are just fucking dandy. So I got a Z-mount adapter, popped it on my Z7, and now I'm shooting with this fucking goofy antique lens but I swear it outperforms all the other third party Z lenses I've got for snapshitz. Of course you're gonna crop, downsize & recalc it anyway when you develop snapshots so idgaf about the coverage, but I suppose it'd be appealing to you MFT nerrrds bc you'd get full coverage of your sensore.and no of course you can't see the same colors it produces on Ektachrome movie film on a digital sensor so i'm not even going to pretend, but
but here's a peek
>>4479034the treeline in the distance is a mile away. How tf can this little old buttplug of a lens see individual branches on them? Crazy.
adapted c mount lenses are almost enough to make me want a cheap m43 camera off eBay. I've got a B&H Angenieux fixed focus lens and I feel the same way about the construction on that; a rock solid piece of brass that feels better, smoother, and more precise than almost anything else I have. The aperture clicks, screw on lens cap and satin chrome finish. Beautiful. Also cool shot, the colors and contrast out of that are rad
>>4479035>How tf can this little old buttplug of a lens see individual branches on them?Because you know nothing about optics
>>4479183First gen E-M10 is like $200-$300 and is probably the best mirrorless for adapting vintage lenses alongside the Sony NEX stuff
>>4479183Thx Broski, yeh i dig it, I had an angenioux 10mm for a minute but it had a really small image circle. Most of the ultrawides I tried out were too small to work on my 16 Ultra modded Bell & Howell 70, except the Japanese Cosmicar 12.5mm. If you're bored with life, it's an interesting challenge to compose your images in a circular mask plus with added distortion of the UW. It'll yank you out of any ruts you happen to be in & rethink how you arrange color & geometry and in relation to the borders of the final image.I found myself immediately putting every vanishing point & subject in the center of the image and positioning leading lines, objects & colors like pizza slices, before realizing that as bold as it is when you see one like that, all the images become monotonous quickly, & i had to arrange geometry in the bubble like faberge egg dioramas. I suck! But when I went back to my usual rectangular full frame, I had all kinds of new things to try.
