One Among Several
Experimenting!
I had a faulty old film camera doing nothing except taking up space. So I 'broke it up' and rescued the lens. Mounting it on the camera hasn't been too difficult with a couple of spacers between it and the camera all held together with a couple of rubber bands!
There is no focussing ability of the lens. I've mounted the camera on an adjustable plate on a tripod so it is the distance of the camera to object that is varied rather than lens elements. By changing the number of spacer rings between lens and camera I can get focus from infinity, or thereabouts, down to ... for this photo about 6 inches. At this stage, I have a focussed field of view of 2 inches in width.
I'm pretty pleased, at present! I've used a lens that was really scrap and got at least an interesting result. I've also got the possibility of mounting the lens off centre, and tilting the lens. All quite exciting in their way.
And this resulting photo - I continued messing and changed the hue.
F.Zuiko f1.7 40mm from Olympus 35 DC camera.
One Among Several
Experimenting!
I had a faulty old film camera doing nothing except taking up space. So I 'broke it up' and rescued the lens. Mounting it on the camera hasn't been too difficult with a couple of spacers between it and the camera all held together with a couple of rubber bands!
There is no focussing ability of the lens. I've mounted the camera on an adjustable plate on a tripod so it is the distance of the camera to object that is varied rather than lens elements. By changing the number of spacer rings between lens and camera I can get focus from infinity, or thereabouts, down to ... for this photo about 6 inches. At this stage, I have a focussed field of view of 2 inches in width.
I'm pretty pleased, at present! I've used a lens that was really scrap and got at least an interesting result. I've also got the possibility of mounting the lens off centre, and tilting the lens. All quite exciting in their way.
And this resulting photo - I continued messing and changed the hue.
F.Zuiko f1.7 40mm from Olympus 35 DC camera.