Received an old vivitar camera with a screw mount 50mm f/1.8 lens on it. Cheap lens adapter on it’s way from ebay, then I can get any M42 cheap-ass screw mount lens one can think of and mount it on my camera.

Funny note: it’s insanely more expensive to mount an old Canon FD lens to my camera than any prehistoric non-canon lens. You have to have special adapters made with corrective lenses mounted in them for it to focus. Which means that each type of lens needs it’s own special adapter. They made a few, then immediately quit, and the only model they made them for was a telephoto. So, to get one nowdays, you have to spend around 1000 for the adapter, which only really works with one lens.

I spent less than 3% of that, and now I can dig up old throw-away lenses to play around with maniacally.

This entry was posted on Saturday, December 6th, 2008 at 10:06.