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Hey guys, I was fairly busy over the past few weeks and couldn’t get as many photos as I would have liked. Obviously I’m biased, but this is hands down the most exciting and fun lens I’ve used up to now. IQ is pretty surprising with a pleasant soft focus effect which can be remedied…
Hello everyone! We’re on the last >build< part of the “Petzval-Adaption” journey. I’m not sure if it ever will be finished. 😉 In the last post we put together the adapter. In this post I’ll ramble about the finish I applied and in the next one we’ll see some photographic results! 😉 I knew from…
Hello everyone, As promised, here’s a step by step to how I built my Petzval’s adapter. This will be a very image heavy post and I apologize in advance if I don’t quite nail the formatting… In my last post I left you with the lens disassembled. I did this for two reasons. 1) to…
First off a bit of info concerning my background in photography: My family did not have a digital camera for quite a long time and in late 2013(!) finally got a Pentax K-50. The K-50 got company a year ago in the shape of a K-1.Back to 2014. In February a friend of mine suggested…