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Tuesday May 26, 2020
Tuesday May 26, 2020
Back from the defeat by Mike Novak on last week’s Pub Quiz show, we’re handling it well, or at least two of us are. This week Simon opens his lens cupboard door and invites Johnny and Perry to direct his hands into its dark depths. What will he pull out?
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EPISODE 117 LINKS
Vivitar Lenses
The DKL Lens Thread
Yeenon DKL to M42 Lens Mount Adapter
Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 45mm f2.8 DKL
Schneider-Kreuznach Retina-Curtagon 35mm f2.8 DKL
Carl Zeiss Distagon 28mm f2.8 T* Contax/Yashica
Petri Penta M42
35mmc: Mamiya RZ67 Lenses & Accessories
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#CLP117 #Bokakkeh #CupboardLenses #Macro #PetriPenta #SchneiderKreuznach #Vivitar #MamiyaRZ67 #Distagon #ContaxYashica #CarlZeiss
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Tuesday May 19, 2020
Tuesday May 19, 2020
So you think you know about lenses? Come and have a go at the Classic Lenses Podcast Pub Quiz! Quizmaster Perry Ge puts hosts Johnny & Simon against each other and the might of uber photo gnome, Mike Novak. Who will take the gold? More importantly, who's going home with a sad silver medal face?
MIKE NOVAK
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CLASSIC LENSES PODCAST PUB QUIZ #1
ROUND 1:
GENERAL LENS KNOWLEDGE
1. Which camera company made Sekor lenses?
2. What is the significance of the following 3 places: Midland, Solms, Wetzlar?
3. How many elements are there in the original Petzval lens?
4. What do the following lenses all have in common? Zeiss 50mm f1.4 Planar, Super Takumar 55mm f1.8, Canon 35mm f2 LTM, Olympus Pen 38mm f1.8, Leica 50mm Summicron
5. The Canonet QL17 is one of world’s most beloved fixed lens rangefinders. What do the QL and 17 stand for? (Need both)
6. Who was Ludwig Bertele?
7. Taylor Hobson & Cooke, in all their brand iterations, are as we know legendary British lens manufacturers. Name two other relatively prominent British lens manufacturers (not camera) that were not part of the Taylor Hobson/Cooke companies.
8. Which lens design was reportedly so admired by Japanese Emperor Hirohito that he would only allow his picture to be taken with lenses of that design?
9. Which lens brand/rebrand was sold by the American camera company Ritz Camera?
10. What is the lens on the Yashica MAT-124G?
11. Ernst Ludwig made a 50mm Meritar lens for Exakta and M42 mount. What is the maximum aperture of that lens?
12. How many different max apertures were there of 50mm Minolta MD lenses?
13. What was the only LTM lens made by Olympus.
14: Which French company is widely credited with making the first wide angle retrofocus lens?
15. This lens is an extremely fast medium format normal lens made for a Japanese medium format SLR. In the USA, the camera was sold co-branded with a legendary maker of large format cameras. Name the camera and lens.
16. This ultra-rare monstrously huge lens is one of the rarest and most expensive lenses ever made. Introduced in 1972, it has a 220 degree angle of view, weighs 5.2 kilos, and produces a circular image on a standard 135 film negative.
17. This lens manufacturer was one of many that produced lenses for the Vivitar brand. Vivitar lenses made by this company had 37 as the first two digits of their serial number. It still exists today.
18. (4 points) Soviet lens factories - in which city is their factory located?
a) LOMO b) Arsenal c) KMZ d) FED
ROUND 2:
CATEGORIES
1. German lens manufacturers.
2. Which Nikkor lenses were made natively in Nikonos Mount?
ROUND 3:
LINKS
1. Which Japanese beer shares a name with a lens and camera company?
2. Which camera company shares a name with a type of Apple?
3. Which famous astrophysicist shares a first name with a famous German lens manufacturer?
4. Which UN weapons inspector shares a name with a film development chemical?
5. Laika was a famous dog that shared a name, phonetically at least, with the camera company. Why was Laika the dog famous?
BONUS ROUND
1. This Japanese lens manufacturer was purchased by Yashica in 1968 and became part of the Kyocera group in 1983 after the merger of Kyocera and Yashica.
2. Sears sold a rebranded TLR called the Trumpfreflex. What camera was this a copy of?
3. Who was the designer of the Bolex Camera and Alpa-Reflex Camera?
4. What is the focal length and aperture of the Helios 65 lens?
5. What was the lens on the original Zeiss Ikon Nettar 510 folder?
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EPISODE 116 LINKS
Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down
Wheel of Fortune Best Spin Ever
Miss Teen USA South Carolina OMFG
Silver Medal Face: The saddest-looking second-place finishers in Olympic history
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EPISODE 116 TAGS
#CLP116 #ClassicLensesPubQuiz #AsianPears #Laika #Novakian #SadSilverMedalFace
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Monday May 11, 2020
Monday May 11, 2020
Johnny has been allowed back into our own Facebook group and his ban seems to have done him and everybody else a world of good. The sun has been shining, and even Simon has taken a photo (plural, in fact!) Perry is deep in the Cooke Panchro zone. Added to this unnaturally good mood, Someone's knockin' at the door Somebody's ringin' the bell...
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EPISODE 115 LINKS
Vivitar Series 1 90mm f2.5 VMC 1:2 Macro "Bokakkehkina”
Kuribayashi C.C. Petri Orikkor 50mm f2
Cooke Speed Panchro Cinematography
Moraine Hills State Park, McHenry, Illinois
Bokakkeh
Couto Camera Company on eBay
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EPISODE 115 PLAYLIST
Let 'Em In - Paul McCartney & Wings
Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix
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EPISODE 115 TAGS
#CLP115 #Bokakkeh #Rolleiflex #Rollei35RF #ArsenalMir24H #Vivitar90mmVMC #Bokina #PetriOrikkor50mmf2 #KMZFT2 #M-Rokkor40mmf2 #Fomapan200 #CookePanchro #TheSpy #MoraineHillsStatePark #GreatEgret #SandhillCrane #Takoomah #BluebellWoods #RobbieJ #Wings
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Monday May 04, 2020
Monday May 04, 2020
Something of a quickie this week, but we managed to unload plenty of lens talk as well as discuss Chris Holland’s lens buying guide and introduce a luscious new word.
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EPISODE 114 LINKS
Classic Lens Buying Guide and 10-Point Checklist
Rolleiflex 2.8c
Bokakkeh
Couto Camera Company on eBay
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EPISODE 114 TAGS
#CLP114 #Bokakkeh #Bukakke #Buttcrack #WetOnWet #Polaroid195 #Tair33 #Kiev88 #ZeissOptonBiogon35mm #Rolleiflex #RolleiRF35
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Monday Apr 27, 2020
Monday Apr 27, 2020
Dr Karl Havens left us a year ago this week and we still miss him dearly. To mark his passing, we take Karl’s memory to our desert island and do our best to work out what cameras and lenses he might have taken with him. So please come and take a trip that Karl would have loved and hated in equal measure as we agonize over what he may have picked.
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Karl’s Desert Island Selections:
Sony A7II
Voigtländer Bessa R3A
Fuji X-E2
Voigtländer Nokton SC 40mm f1.4
Canon 50mm 1.4 LTM (Top Mint+++++ No Worms)
Voigtländer 15mm f4.5 Super Wide Heliar LTM
Honorable Mentions:
Leica IIIa
Olympus Pen EEs
Olympus Pen F G.Zuiko Auto-S 40mm f1.4
Olympus OM 180 f2.8
Voigtländer 21mm Color-Skopar
Voigtländer Color Heliar 75mm f2.5
Asahi Takumar 58mm 2.4 Heliar
Nippon Kogaku Nikkor-P 10.5cm f2.5
Nippon Kogaku Nikkor-P 85mm f2
Nikon Nikkor-S 55mm f1.2 NON-AI
Nikon 24mm f2.8 AI-s
Lester A. Dine 105mm f2.8
Helios 44 50mm f2 M39 (‘Triple Zed’ Politburo Special Edition)
KMZ Mir 1-B 37mm f2.8
Helios-103 53mm f1.8
Ultimate 3d Pop Dream Lenses:
Voigtlander 50mm f3.5 VM Heliar
ZEISS C Sonnar T* 50mm f1.5 ZM
ZEISS Distagon T* 35 f1.4 ZM
ZEISS Biogon T* 35mm f2 ZM
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#CLP113 #DesertIslandLenses #KarlHavens
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Monday Apr 20, 2020
Monday Apr 20, 2020
Johnny could not be with us this week, he’s felling a little better but he has other pressing concerns, so Perry and Simon man up and take on the mammoth task of responding to your emails. In the last podcast, Simon asked listeners for feedback on what they wished to hear in future shows and boy did you tell us! So sit back in safe isolation and hopefully enjoy the show.
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EPISODE 112 LINKS
Abstract: The Art of Design — Platon
Classic Lens Buying Guide and 10-Point Checklist
Adapt projector lenses to Pantax 67
Carl ZEISS 28mm f/2.8 Biogon T*
Enna München Lithagon 35mm f3.5
Enna München Tele-Ennalyt 90mm f2.8
Contax G to Leica M Lens Conversions
'Unknown Spain', forward by Simon Forster
Serengeti & Kenny Segal’s New Album 'Ajai'
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EPISODE 112 TAGS
#CLP112 #Pentax67 #SebastiãoSalgado #Cinelux #ZeissBiogon28mm #EnnaLithagon35mm #EnnaTeleEnnalyt90mm #Elmarit90mm
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Monday Apr 06, 2020
Monday Apr 06, 2020
We're back after another two week lockdown lay-off and it seems that few things have changed. None of us has gone outside to shoot, Perry is digging LTM lenses, Simon's making lens caps and Johnny.... let's say that he's still under doctor's care and that's the best explanation for his flat field focus lecture.
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EPISODE 111 LINKS
Spiratone 75mm Flat Field Macro Lens
Petri Color Corrected Super 4.5cm f1.9
Curved Field And Flat Field Lenses
Process Camera
Peter Defty Process Camera Portraits
Circumscribe a Square Around a Circle
Olympus Microscopy Resource Center
General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark
Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11
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EPISODE 111 TAGS
#CLP111 #FlatField #Covid19 #Malort #ChiyokoSuperRokkor5cm #Mir37mm #Flektogon35mm #SquareCircle #CircleOfConfusion #SigueSigueSputnik
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Monday Mar 23, 2020
Monday Mar 23, 2020
Oh boy... The world has changed a little in the two weeks since our last recording, but thankfully Perry wants to talk about Exakta and Topcon lenses. The elephant that calls itself Covid-19 makes it's presence known and we talk through the different experiences that the we have encountered and how it is affecting our photographic worlds. Not all the bleeping is Johnny swearing. On a more positive note, Simon launches his new range of lens caps so that your more obscure lenses can be protected from scratches and contagion.
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EPISODE 110 LINKS
AkArette Camera
Topcon RE Super
There's a stink bug on my microphone
Nut Milking
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#CLP110 #Exakta #Topcon #Covid19 #Bleeping
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Tuesday Mar 10, 2020
Tuesday Mar 10, 2020
It’s finally here: we’ve made the long-awaited Digitization Special! In this episode we are joined by two titans of the digitization world, Hamish Gill of Pixl-latr (and other stuff) and Nate Johnson, the man behind the brilliant Negative Lab Pro plugin for Lightroom. We cover as many bases as possible, going through the pros and cons of different digitization methods, and Hamish throws in a couple of rants for good measure.
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EPISODE 109 GUESTS
Hamish Gill
pixl-latr (new website coming soon)
Nathan Johnson
Negative Lab Pro | X-Chrome
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EPISODE 109 LINKS
Adobe Creative Cloud
Scanner Types Comparison
Photo Scanner Technology Explained
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Monday Mar 02, 2020
Monday Mar 02, 2020
It's Pulaski Day in Chicago, and we're celebrating by talking about adapting lenses. We lose Simon part way through the episode, but Perry and Johnny continue on. The guys talk about a number of unique classic lenses ideal for adapting, and take a deep dive into the techniques for fitting them to film and digital cameras.
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EPISODE 108 LINKS
Extreme Macro – Focusing Helicoids
Fujitar P.C 35mm F2.5 Asahiflex Lens Test
35mmc – That Time I Shot an 18-55mm APS-C Digital Lens on a 35mm Pentax Film Camera
Cameraquest – Voigtlander Vitessa L: Most Elegant 35 Folder
Wollensak Fastax 16mm High Speed Camera
Polish Museum of America – Pulaski Day
Chicago Sun-Times – What Casimir Pulaski Day means to Chicago
WBEZ Curious City – The Rise of Casimir Pulaski Day
VPK-X Photography on Facebook
Pulaski Day Playlist
Sufjan Stevens – Casimir Pulaski Day
Big Black – Kasimir S. Pulaski Day
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#CLP108 #CasimirPulaskiDay #AdaptingLenses #Helicoids #Fastax
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