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Month: May 2020

May 20, 2020

A (lens) hacker and his tools

When adapting incompatible lenses, lens hackers often do it out of the sheer joy of experimentation (another classic hacker trait), but often also as a way to stick it to the man (With ‘the man’ in this case being the camera giants).

May 12, 2020

Classic, vintage or legacy?

You are welcome to read the entire article (in fact, I hope you do), but in short, this new classification defines all the lenses you might mount on your camera in four tiers: new, current, legacy and outré. Let me briefly describe these categories:

• New lenses are those which are in production.

• Current are all those lenses which (while not new) are natively mountable and supported on bodies which are in current production.
• Legacy are all those photographic lenses which cannot natively be mounted on any new body without the use of an adapter.
• Finally, outré are all those optical lenses which never were designed for use as interchangeable lenses for a camera
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May 11, 2020

How to identify a lens mount

Pekka Buttler, may 2020 Looking at many online discussions, this is a perennial question. You might have found a nice-looking lens at a garage…

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We (currently, I) are not trying to push you to buying new, expensive gear. Instead, our approach is the opposite (in all aspects). Instead we want to help you made informed decisions, and if we can be said to ‘push’ anything, that would be relatively cheap, old gear.

JAPB is non-profit, in fact this is a loss generator. Some day that might change, but we’ll make sure that does not happen at the expense of the audience.

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