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A podcast about photography with manual focus lenses
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Monday Jul 29, 2019
Monday Jul 29, 2019
We finally get around to answering your emails this week! Seeing that Perry is gallivanting around North America, we asked frenemy of the show and the man behind the constructive feedback summaries of our show on Instagram's @bestvintagelens, Ricardo Bayon to sit in the third seat and help us out. Topics include cheap vs expensive adapters, focusing screens, why it's difficult to adapt some lenses to other systems, what does the aperture pin do, and what's wrong with a Spotmatic? Plus a couple of questions that take us into the depths/pit of why we like lenses that are far from perfect.
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Ricardo Bayon
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EPISODE 78 LINKS & REFERENCES
HELIOS 44m-4 to Nikon Adjustment
Camera Mounts Sorted by Register
Garry Winogrand at Rice University
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Simon Forster
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Perry Ge
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Johnny Sisson
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Karl Havens
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#CLP78 #bestvintagelenses #frenemies #lensadapters
Monday Jul 22, 2019
Monday Jul 22, 2019
Don’t let anyone tell you that gear does not matter! Also, don’t start thinking that if you have the same gear, you can replicate the work of Isabel Curdes, as even she cannot! Isabel takes us laughing into the dark places she feels most comfortable. Along the way we take a trip through some of the A-list equipment Isabel has made the most of, and then moved on. A Flex Body Hasselblad with a digital back, boring Leica Summiluxes, an amazing large format soft focus Cooke lens, adapting to her Fuji GFX, tilt shifting, adding elements to lenses and exploiting light leaks with large format.
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Isabel Curdes
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Connected 2018 exhibition in the UK, April 2018
OnLandscape Magazine, Issue 155, March 2018
Sunny 16 podcast, Episode 117: Women Of Film #1, January 2018
Sunny 16 podcast, Episode 75, November 2017
Jon Wilkening's podcast, Episode 26, June 2017
EPISODE 77 LINKS & REFERENCES
Cooke Portrait PS945 Lens review at HKDonut
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Perry Ge
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Johnny Sisson
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Karl Havens
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#CLP77 #isabelcurdes #bokeh #ooftah #epiclensdicking
Monday Jul 15, 2019
Monday Jul 15, 2019
We went on a bit this week, or rather Simon and Perry did. Johnny went a way for a while to do some household chores, but sneaked back later hoping he had not been missed. He hadn't, because Simon was salivating over his friend's Contax and Zeiss collection that had been laid before him. So, a camera heavy episode, but with plenty of lots of Planar, Sonnar, and yes, Tessar talk to to keep you happy.
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EPISODE 76 LINKS & REFERENCES
Contax RTS, RTS II and RTS III Series SLR cameras
Contax Aria Review by Cheyenne Morrison at casualphotophile.com
Designed by Porsche: The Samsung ECX1
Rube Goldberg
All About That Bass
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Karl Havens
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#CLP76 #ContaxYashica
Monday Jul 08, 2019
Monday Jul 08, 2019
Do aspherical elements improve or detract from ooftah (bokeh)? Has Johnny shot flowers with his Primoplan? Has Simon been comotosed by Tessars? These are a few things tackled this week, plus forthright opinions on C-41, street photography hesitancy and Johnny and Simon narrow down the listeners suggestions for Perry's cheap lens challenge.
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EPISODE 75 LINKS & REFERENCES
CineStill °Cs "Temperature Control System" TCS-1000
Meyer-Optik Görlitz Domiplan 50mm f2.8
Schneider Kreuznach Xenar 45mm f2.8
Meyer Optik Gorlitz Primoplan 58mm f1.9
Kodacolor lenticular color cinema process
1933 Chicago World’s Fair in Kodacolor
Gary Stochl at the Art Institute of Chicago
Gary Stochl: "all of my shoes are comfortable"
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#CLP75 #AsphericalOoftah #CheapLensForPerry #C41Sucks
Monday Jul 01, 2019
Monday Jul 01, 2019
Perry loves cheap lenses, Simon digs Tessars (instead of burying or sinking them) and Johnny says nice things about bokeh with a Primoplan. An alternate universe strikes the podcast this week as the hosts acknowledge their lens prejudices and promise to at least try to overcome them... Plus trash talk on (some) Leica equipment, a quick chat on Zunow lenses and cameras, and more than you might hope for on Johnny's ginger beer.
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EPISODE 74 LINKS & REFERENCES
Hacking the Ricoh R1 at 35mmc.com
Konica UC 35mm f2 by Ken Rockwell
Konica UC 35mm f/2 by Dante Stella
Zunow 50mm f1.1 at Tamarkin Camera
Meyer-Optik-Goerlitz Primoplan 58mm f1.9
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#CLP74 #TessarsForSimon #CheapLensForPerry #BokehForJohnny
Monday Jun 24, 2019
Monday Jun 24, 2019
This week, Simon watches the new promotional video for the Hasselblad CFV II digital back for Hasselblad V Series cameras and decides to make something of a chimera out of his Sony and 500 C/M... We finally catch up on a few emails from Robbie Jamieson, Chris Holland and a correctly pronounced Ian Barnaby Nutt and finally do their emails some justice. As usual we can't get through a show without talking about panorama cameras and Perry's Xpan, and Perry gives tips on what he describes as budget lenses.
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EPISODE 73 LINKS & REFERENCES
Perry’s Budget Picks: Voigtlander 35mm f2.5 LTM
Perry’s Budget Picks: 7artisans 35mm f2
Chris Holland: The Lord of the Red Rings
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#CLP73 #Sonblad #LeicaCL
Monday Jun 17, 2019
Monday Jun 17, 2019
This week Per Edman, a full time wiseguy of the Minolta Mafia, returns with a big little camera – a Fuji GFX 50R. Is it a large format camera as some Fuji marketing says, or is it not even medium format? Opinions are expressed and they may well be disagreed with... So is it worth mounting 35mm SLR lenses on the little behemoth? This question is answered and we also find out the sad truth why Per is so passionate about Minolta gear...
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EPISODE 72 LINKS & REFERENCES
Minolta RF Rokkor 250mm f5.6 Mirror Lens
Camera Mounts Sorted by Register
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#CLP72 #FujifilmGFX50 #MinoltaRokkor
Monday Jun 10, 2019
Monday Jun 10, 2019
This week, Perry finds himself in the middle of a 1 million person strong protest demonstration, so he naturally grabs his Konica Hexar + Zeiss ZM Biogon & Hasselblad Xpan. Following on from a chat about Perry's undoubtedly worthy photos, the conversation naturally turns to flower and bokeh photography. Plus, news from Fujifilm, and find out why Simon felt guilty about shooting poppies with a Cyclop 100mm f/2? Perry and Johnny are still scratching their heads on that one...
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EPISODE 70 LINKS & REFERENCES
Cyclop T3C-2 (Helios) 100mm f2
Olympus OM Zuiko Auto-S 50mm f1.4
Olympus Pen-F G.Zuiko Auto-S 40mm f1.4
Hong Kong-China Extradition Protest, 09 June 2019
Donald Trump Muslim Ban Protests, 27 January 2017
Persian Gulf War Protests, 1990-1991
Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes
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#CLP71 #ooftah #nokeh #fuckbokeh #protestphotos #flowerphotos
Monday Jun 03, 2019
Monday Jun 03, 2019
Perry Ge officially becomes a host of the Classic Lenses Podcast, and after an eternity, Johnny and Simon finally let him talk, and then there's no stopping him! Topics cover what professional sellers do with nice gear, focus aids, Alpa cameras & lenses as well as forgetting the difference between a Sonnar and a Planar... All this plus Johnny's long awaited field recording of Central Camera customers and co-workers.
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EPISODE 70 LINKS & REFERENCES
Alpa Kern Macro Switar 50mm f1.9
Voigtländer 35mm f1.4 M NOKTON Classic
Steinheil Quinon 50mm f2 and f1.9
Canon LTM 35mm f1.5
Canon LTM 35mm f2.8
Canon LTM 35mm f2
Canon LTM 50mm f1.8
Canon LTM 100mm f2 and f3.5
Topcor 5cm f2
Topcor 5cm f2.8
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Karl Havens
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Monday May 27, 2019
Monday May 27, 2019
We have a full on lensgasm this week! Perry Ge is our returning guest, and we welcome him by promptly sending him away on a sinking ship to be washed up with his simple choice of three lenses from his collection as well as one from his dreams. So, put on your sunglasses and listen to the most lens namedropped episode ever!
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In memory of Karl Havens, all donations made to the Classic Lenses Podcast during the month of May will go to the Down Syndrome Association of Central Florida (DSACF)
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