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A nice regular 8mm projector, taken on Ilford Delta 100 4x5 sheet film, with a Crown View 4x5 camera. Lens was a Kodak Ektar 127.
Lit with a single soft box above and to the left of subject. F5-6 1/50th sec
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Retired at the Griffith Park Planetarium. My 4 visits to this observatory span almost 70 years (1959, 1969, 2021 and last week) and the planterium only on the first and last visits. This instrument came into use after the one and disuse before the other. It looks quite different from what I recall of those used at the Morrison (San Francisco), College of San Mateo, and Hayden (NYC - although I don’t know if was called the Hayden in 1956), spheres studded with lenses for each major star. October, 2025. Cross-view stereophoto.
With a Hanimar 85mm projector lens. With a lot of light processing.
I included a few shots from this lens in my YouTube video below on projector lenses...but this shot was taken today, after the video posted.
My wife is setting up for the holidays and we always need help from a little cat. It wasn't long after this shot when Jane made her first climb up the tree. I didn't get a good photo of that because we were not in sync with her misbehaving and my wife scolded the cat before I could focus.
ISCO Göttingen 100mm projector lens, converted to M42. Unlisted f-stop rating, but it feels around three-something.
I've decided to consolidate my experiences of adapting and using projector lenses in a YouTube video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-tp40qyudY
The one I'm holding here is a Leitz Colorplan 90mm f2.5, the Made in Germany version.
This semi-adapted projector lens is f/1 so it has a tiny DoF resulting in lots of blur with its (currently limited) close focus. I have plans to machine off some of the tail of the lens to improve its focusing ability for more distant subjects.
Meopta Meostigmat 50mm f/1, fixed aperture, wide open
This Russian 78mm f/2.8 slide projector lens (named "Triplet") was custom mounted into an M39 extension tube (the narrower diameter at the back is a 26mm extension tube). The original focusing barrel of the projector lens (with a spiral groove in it) was cut off with a hacksaw. This now allows the projector lens to fit this early Russian SLR, which has a 39mm lens mount (unlike the later Zenits that are 42mm). It's focused at infinity as it is, and it can be focused closer by partially unscrewing the lens, and can be focused much closer by adding more extension tubes.
There is no diaphragm in projector lenses, but used wide open at f/2.8 this lens can make very nice pictures with out-of-focus backgrounds, like this shot taken by a Flickr friend of mine in Hungary:
www.flickr.com/photos/139732364@N05/44663406175/in/photos...
And the camera is lying on my silk embroidered Hungarian cushion cover.
With a Zeiss Ikon Talon 85mm f2.8 projector lens.
It amazes me how much fun and how good these simple, aperture-less projector lenses can be, when adapted to digital cameras. And this lens only cost me £5 at a car boot sale (with the projector thrown in). The images need some PP - I've added a slight vignette here to help the contrast - but the lens is nice and sharp "wide open".
This particular lens can focus all the way to infinity on the helicoid I'm using.
Something a little different. A friend at my camera club loaned me this vintage Aldis slide projector so that I could try a light-painted still life image.
Difficult, because of the reflective surfaces and lack of patina and rust that I usually go for!
Projector lenses are quite fun to use, but with no focusing part, they are a bit difficult to handle.
My lens (a Liesegang Sankar 85mm f/2.5) has a nice long flange distance, which gives me some room betweeen the lens body and the camera mount to place an M42-E adapter, the lens is niclely fitted in a M42-flat ring (then screwed on the adapter). That M42-E adapter includes a focusing helicoid wich makes focusing then possible ! I can still add extension tubes if the minimal flange distance is still too short (I actually have one here).
It goes without saying that using a mirrorless camera makes everything a lot simpler because you have a short flange distance to begin with, much shorter than most of the 35mm film projector lenses (except if their body extends far behind the actual rear element...).
Picture taken with my Sony A68 / Carl Zeiss Jena Pancolar 50mm f/1.8
We used the lens of a Ghostbusters toy projector from the 80's to take pictures of Ghostbusters toys! Click here to see how we did it: youtu.be/Niw-SoX-zak
Kalart-Victor 75-25 16mm projector. Kalart art, maybe?
One of the benefits of newer tools and techniques is taking a simple shot, layer-masked in Photoshop to non-destructively clear out the original background, and replace the background with something more consistent. Of course, by hiding the boring layers and adding wildly different ones, I can go nuts in true Sliders Sunday style, all in the same parent file.
Projector is a duplicate layer, with applied mask, given the Topaz Studio 2 treatment. All other elements were created and/or modified within Photoshop.
Explored August 21, 2023