What do you get when you hack a circa-1919 camera to a Canon 5D? You get some remarkable images that look like they are from another era.
Does this mean these old cameras and their lenses have another life?
“I’ve had this Piccolette Contessa-Nettel (1919) folding camera for ages. Its been a great piece of photo history sitting on my shelf. Was curious if it could make pictures again, so I hacked it onto my 5D. Here are the results,” writes photographer and filmmaker Jason Bognacki before his posting of images.
“I am a self confessed glass-a-holic,” says Bognacki. “I have been collecting and seeking out vintage, obscure, and trash lenses for a while now. I guess I’ve treated it as an optical education of sorts.”
Bognacki is expected to offer more details on his blog regarding how he connected the cameras, but offered Digital Trends a preview: ““M42-EOS mount + M42 Extension Tube + Hot Glue = The 5D View Camera. No lenses or cameras were injured in the process. The process is reversible.”
Update: No how-to details yet, but Bognacki’s blog now features some video shot using the older lens.
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Bognacki’s blog has been updated with step-by-step instructions for combining the two cameras:
http://todaystomorrow.tumblr.com/
Bognacki’s blog has been updated with step-by-step instructions for combining the two cameras:
http://todaystomorrow.tumblr.com/
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