So, after a summer break, it’s time again to brush up on your 2nd Grade classical history and moderately-sized furry mammal knowledge as it will be required to get the most out of this episode. Off topic we discuss the Fujinon 55mm f/2.2 and a potential clone, the new Voigtlander (is it a) Heliar 50mm f/1.5 (how can it be if it’s f/1.5 and six elements!), and how to manage a house move with a large camera collection.

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The Final Chapter of the Cocaine & Waffles Podcast Experiment

Starring:

Mike Eckman
Johnny Sisson
Theo Panagopoulos
Anthony Rue
Mark Faulkner
Rick Oleson
Daniel Hausman
Vadislav Kern
Rob Jamieson

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A slew of Vivitar purchases by Simon is the inspiration for a Vivitar special show where we give something of a potted history of the once great American lens brand. Whilst Vivitar has always been at the value end of the lens market, many of their lenses punched well beyond their weight. We discuss our collective experiences (well Johnny and Simon do...) of Vivitar lenses and pick our favourites and bargain buys.

LINKS

Vivitar T2 lenses

Vivitar T4 Lenses

Vivitar Lenses on Apotelyt

Vivitar Wiki

Vivitar Lenses on Cameraquest

The Great Vivitar 28mm 28mm Bestiary

The Vivitar PN2011 35mm Camera

Vivitar Maniacs on Flickr

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The Cocaine & Waffles Podcast Experiment

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Mike Eckman
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Cheyenne Morrison
Perry Ge
Mike Novak
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In July, 2019 (Episode #77), we thoroughly enjoyed having the rare talent that is Isabel Curdes on the show, so we are delighted to able to maroon her on our desert island with 4 special lenses and two cameras (one is a big digital camera with a stupid shutter speed dial (if you're Simon and have weird issues with shutter speed dials.)) Isabel's picks are pretty stellar, which is not surprising seeing how many lenses she's gone through over the years. As well as getting to know Isabel's lenses better, we also have a quick chat about the automated mounted slide "scanning" device, the Cameradactyl BoopBoop Trigger and give definitive advice to Graeme Jago in his hunt for a new Cheap Shot Challenge camera...

ISABEL CURDES  Website | Twitter | Instagram

LINKS

Mamiya 80mm f/1.9

SMC Pentax 67 105mm f/2.4

Hermagis Eidoscope

Fuji GFX 50R

Graflex Speed Graphic

Sunny 16 Podcast

I dream Of Cameras Podcast

Cameradactyl BoopBoop Trigger

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There's something in the air, it's almost tangible... that's right it's pent up GAS, and we've just released it! Perry finally (and properly) breaks his No Nut November pledge from last October, Simon meets one of his hero lenses, and Johnny has extreme Leica satisfaction. Plenty of lens talk on adapting projection lenses, adapting the Contax G 35mm/2 Planar to Leica M, and some sharp practice by an auction house.

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CLP142 #LeicaMP #LeicaIIIa #LeicaIII #Voigtlander #35mmUltron #35mmPlanar #85mmPlanar #Contax #GAS

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It appears that taking a month off has not helped with the intelligence and lens knowledge of the three hosts. Perry struggles with cleaning marks, Simon struggles with the Minolta Rokkor VFC 24mm f/2.8 and Johnny struggles with the "focus bubble" of the Russar MR-2. If you have any knowledge of the three subject above, beware listening will be painful...

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Anil’s back and he’s brought his Unusual Eye with him. It’s just as well that we had Anil booked as Johnny had a Red Dot course to attend and could not be with us. As well as chatting about Anil’s excellent new photo book, which you can win a copy of it by entering our exciting new completion… This week’s podcast turned into a marathon session as we took the opportunity to (almost) finish off our latest backlog of emails.

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Anil Mistry Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | City By The Sea

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We're back and winter lockdown boredom is playing havoc with our minds. What else could explain our desire to talk about early digital point and shoots, DSLRs, and a particular Canon EF lens that causes Johnny to have an almost Indiana-level meltdown? We also catch up on the new Sony 7C, the now extinct Fuji 400H, and the Mamiya Press 100mm f2.8.

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Canon EF 50mm f1.4 Overly Kind Lukewarm Review Canon 5D 2005 Review Canon 20D 2004 Review Nikon D70 2004 Review Sony A7C Review Sony Cybershot DSC-P150 2004 Review Fujifilm FinePix S3 Pro 2005 Review Fujifilm PRO 400H Officially Discontinued Mamiya Press System

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CLP139 #Sony #Canon #Mamiya #Nikon #Fujifilm

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Vlad Kern returns this week for another deep dive into the photographic world of the Former Soviet Union. We cover an extensive list of topics, including rare Soviet camera, export models, and espionage cameras. Comrade Vlad has many great stories to share again this time, including a few that didn't make it past the censors!

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ussrphoto.com ussrphoto on Instagram Vinage Camera Collectors on Facebook

TAGS

CLP138 #Vlad #VCC #sovietcameras #Zenit #Fed #Kalimar #TSVVS

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Following a lengthy discussion on stray Australian marsupials, we dive into a host of more pressing questions this week. Will Perry succumb to Rodenstock GAS? What is Johnny's perfect TLR accessory? Is Simon hoarding Tessars? Plus chat about vintage cameras in Netflix shows, whether gear should be sold for "grail" purchases, and super telephoto lenses for birding.

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DeKalb Daily Chronicle - Wallaroo chase in Peru ABC7 News Chicago - Wallaroo on the loose in Peru, Illinois Phantom Kangaroos Washington Post - Canada Goose parkas are winter’s ‘it’ coat — particularly for robbers in Chicago Mamiya C330

Mamiya C330 Manual

Rollei Practical Accessories Reflex & Magnifying Finders for MF & LF Cameras

Konica Hexar AF

TAGS

CLP137 #wallaroo #rodenstock #mamiyac330 #rolleiflex

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Just when you thought that we could not keep it up for two weeks on the trot, another show turns up like a bad penny. The week sees us reach the finale of our listener emails trilogy and includes a special section where we hear from supporters of the much maligned Mike "it's all my fault" Gutterman. Having got the obligatory Leica talk out of the way, we cover some great topics including non-vanilla Pentax lenses, why a Nikon DSLR is rarely the answer to anything, and classic lens webcams.

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Takumar Lenses

Leica MP

Pentax FA Limited Lenses

Bokeh Trees

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CLP136 #Pentax #Takumar #LeicaMP #Bokeh

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A short catch up this week along with a superficial comparison between the Pentax 50mm f/1.2 and the Konica 57mm f/1.2. The main event being part two of our catch up of listener emails and an official complaint. We become uplifted by La Résistance, delve into the Borg psyche of the Classic Lenses Podcast hosts and then there's the Gutterman...

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Camera Geekery: MS Optics Aporia 24mm f2 M mount Pentax SMC 50mm 1.2 Konica Hexanon AR 57 mm / F1.2 Used Lenses The Freudian Trio in Film The Borg Negative Positives Podcast

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TAGS

CLP135 #Pentax #MSOptical #Konica #Borg #Freud #NegativePositivesPodcast #Gutterman

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Well we’ve had a three week break and it’s done us the world of good. We’re more relaxed and less opinionated than ever. A mountain of quality emails helps us to gently ease ourselves back into the swing of things with topics including Speed Panchros, Summarits, fake sharpness, a zoom lens, Jeremy North on the Mamiya C330 and other things. On another note, if you’re a thin-skinned Missourian, Hoosier, Wisconsinite or French, you may want to skip this week’s show.

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Beauty Camera Company

Here's why you'll never find Chinese takeout boxes in China

Frito Pie

Rivals on all borders of Badger State

You Know You're From Michigan When...

Kladiana

Missouri: The Show Me State

Wisconsin: Racist by Default

French people

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CLP134 #Biokar #BeautyCameraCo #FritoPie #ChopSuey #Klandiana #Cheeseheads #Frogs

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The much anticipated Frozen Pizza Episode is now here. SPOILER ALERT! Chicago Deep Dish Pizza is garbage (according to Simon). Trans Am Mullet Man Sex In A Fiero Pro Pizza Guy Mike Gutterman brings his expertise to present a balanced pizza episode and weighs in on the debate. Pentax and Leica R lenses are also briefly discussed, along with classic American muscle cars, classic American Lenses, and classic American cassette tape decks.

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TAGS

CLP133 #Gutterman #ClassicPizzaPodcast #Pentax #LeicaR #Fiero #TransAm #NegativePositivesPodcast

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LINKS Chicago Town Pizza Reviews

DiGiorno Rising Crust Pizza

California Pizza Kitchen BBQ Recipe Chicken

Little Caesar’s Pizza

Little Caesar's - I taught my dog to say I love you

Beastie Boys - Sure Shot

Lou Malnati’s Pizza

Pequods’s Pizza

Jensen Audio

Pontiac Trans Am

Pontiac Fiero

Holga Cameras

Pentax Lenses

SMC Pentax KY Lube

Leica R8 R9

Kodak Medalist

History of lens coatings

Wollensak Lenses

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Simon strikes gold with a great haul of interesting lenses, Perry gives up buying cameras and lenses for the rest of 2020, (there are caveats…) and Johnny has been drinking the Rodinal again. Johnny’s questionable habits may explain why he has no idea who is sending him film or a 6x12 camera in the mail.

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SMC Pentax 50mm 1.2

Porst 135mm f1.8

Taylor-Hobson

Mamiya Universal Press

Mamiya Press System Overview

MAMIYA Sekor 100mm f2.8

Totarev FT-2 Industar 50mm f5

Zodiak-8B

KRAKEN 612

South Park

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CLP132 #TaylorHobsonAviar #Porst #Tokatev #Zodiak8B #NoNutNovember #Cooke #Mamiya #Biotar #FT2 #Porst #Pentax #helios33 #Kraken612

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Just when Simon thought that Johnny and Perry would be done talking about rangefinders after last week’s great show with Dan Tamarkin, he was proven to be wrong. Simon was also wrong about the Mongoose by Ethan “Cameradactyl” Moses, which already met its funding target after just one day. Talking of Ethan, he skydives into the show and regales us with Pro stories that are Pro.

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ETHAN MOSES CAMERADACTYL CAMERAS | CAMERADACTYL MONGOOSE Kickstarter | Homemade Camera Podcast | Instagram

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CLP131 #EthanMoses #Cameradactyl #Mongoose #VoigtlanderBessa

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Johnny and Perry's wildest dreams comes true! We are joined by none other than Dan Tamarkin of Tamarkin Camera in Chicago, America's Premiere Leica Specialist. We take a deep-dive into rangefinder photography and all things Leica. Dan is an amazing conversationalist and storyteller, and even Simon manages to enjoy this complete immersion into the fascinating world of the Red Dot!

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DAN TAMARKIN

Tamarkin Camera America’s Premiere Leica Specialist http://www.tamarkin.com | (800) BUY-LEICA | info@tamarkin.com Tamarkin Auctions | Tamarkin Camera on YouTube

Tamarkin on Instagram: dan_tamarkin | Tamarkinchicago | Leicashopchicago The International Leica Society http://leica-camera.com

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CLP130 #Leica #TamarkinCamera #TamarkinAuctions #LHSA #DanTamarkin

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Mike Eckman makes an overdue reappearance and we catch up on some of the things he’s been up to recently with his classic camera review website, www.mikeeckman.com. It turns out that Mike has been writing articles about cameras with bad names, and if taking about cameras such as the Trumpfreflex is not enough, Mike accepts the challenge to take part in the second Classic Lenses Podcast Pub Quiz. Will Mike follow is namesake, Mike Novak in annihilating Johnny and Simon?

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MIKE ECKMAN Mike Eckman Dot Com

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LINKS

Nikonos III  AGFA Karat 36 v1.5  Alpa Alnea Model 7   Foth Derby Type 2  Futura S  Konica AiBORG 

Petri 1.9 Color Corrected Super Zeiss-Ikon Contax II  Eleven Unfortunately Named Cameras Aires 35V  Custom Fitted Focusing Screens   Official Website of the Rams - Derby County UK   Volkswagen Derby  Wollensak Stereo 10 

Kodak Retina Lens & Shutter Combos 

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TAGS

CLP129 #CLPPubQuiz #MikeEckman

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Simon did not get the chance to do an update on his latest gear related activity last week, so he more than makes up for it this week. Pleanty of Mamiya C330, Yashica YF & Yashinon 5cm f/1.8, Pentacon Six & 120mm f/2.8 Biometar, Large Format projection lenses, an EXA to MD adapter that was made in heaven and an equally (not quite) wonderful Kodak Retina Reflex III & Xenon 50mm f/1.9. Oh, and an odd thing that sticks on top of a camera.

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LINKS

Yashica YF

Yashica Super Yashinon 5cm f1.8

Pentacon 6

Pentacon 6 Lenses

Pentacon 6 Lens Tests

Minolta x500

Carl Zeiss Jena Biotar 75mm f/1.5 by Cheyenne Morrison

Mamiya C330 Lens Adapting

Voigtlander Kontur Finder

Micro-Press

Introduction to Medium Format Photography by Ken Rockwell (Rollei vs. Mamiya TLR)

My 3 Favorite Vintage Cameras by Jason Schneider (Rollei vs. Mamiya TLR)

Mamiya C330 vs. Rolleiflex 2.8E

Exploring the Modulor, Le Corbusier

Die Hard: Nakatomi Tower Explosion Money Shot

Towering Inferno: Elevator Money Shot

Towering Inferno: Body Count Cut

HSBC Building, Hong Kong Lloyd's Building, London

Archigram

Exoskeleton Skyscrapers

Simon’s pixl-latr Slide Insert

Simon’s Mounted Slide Insert For Pixl-latr

Princess Bride: Battle of the Wits

The Fall: Paranoia Man in Cheap Sh*t Room

The Fall: Service Kodak Bantam Special Looks Like a Pimp

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Version 1: After two weeks of having guests on the show, Perry is bursting at the seams to tell us what he’s acquired. Although we finally get a show devoid of mathematics (that’s why it’s called maths and not math), however we can’t leave TLRs completely alone as we discuss the intricacies of square format photography. All this and quite a but of love for Schneider and a few DKL lenses, but no love for Kodak Retina camera bodies. Finally, don’t do an internet search for that phrase you will hear, you have been warned…

Version 2: Perry brings his Goatsecx wrecking ball to episode 127 (yes, it’s so bad we can’t use the word or our podcast RSS will get flagged as p*rn. You have been double warned!) A scattershot of topics, everything from Retina DKL to Takumars, the merits and challenges of square format composition, and we even squeeze in a couple of listener emails (we didn’t think it would all fit.) A math-free (why add an extra 'S' if you're abbreviating?) episode with just a hint of Euclidean geometry. All this and more from the photography podcast that is “much bigger than other podcasts”...

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Kodak Reflex Retinas

My Favourite Lenses Series – Schneider-Kreuznach Xenon 50mm f1.9 DKL

Asahi SMC Takumar 28mm f3.5

Bellows-Takumar 100mm f4

Square Format Compsition

Golden Ratio of the Square

Golden Ratio of the Square with extra math(s)

Time Magazine’s Tribute to Goatse.cx Cover

A New Guide to Rollei Photography By Fritz Henle

Fritz Henle: Photographs

Don Henley: All She Wants To Do Is Dance

Don Henley: Dirty Laundry (Global TV Toronto version)

Links from Nick Marshall

Super-Multi-Coated Macro-Takumar 100mm F4 Macro

Bellows-Takumar/Super-Multi-Coated Bellows Takumar 100mm F4

SMC Pentax 100mm F4 Macro

SMC Pentax 100mm F4 Bellows

SMC Pentax-M 100mm F4 Macro

SMC Pentax-A 100mm F4 Macro

Mamiya RB67 180mm f4.5

Mamiya RB67 C 180mm f4.5

Mamiya TLR C330/C220 System

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UK camera and lens repair guy, Lyndon Booth of Londinium Cameras dropped in for a chat and to answer listener emails. We had a great time with Lyndon on his first appearance back in February 2019 and his latest visit does not disappoint either. As you may expect, there’s talk of early Britons, (possibly relatives of Lyndon), Einstein, and camera bugs (the living kind that go out on family trips).

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Learn Camera Repair Who was Cheddar Man? Wallace And Gromit - A Grand Day Out Hanker for a Hunka Cheese I Never Work Out - Chedda Cheese Chedda Cheese feat. Chills - Yoshi Americans try ~REAL~ Cheddar Cheese and British Food Cheddar Cheeses from Wisconsin | State of Cheese What Is American Cheese Really Made Of?

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Regular listeners will recognis(z)e the name Mike Epstein as he's a friend of Perry's and also starred in a video we have on our YouTube channel. Mike and Perry give each other a lot of GAS and this partially explains Mike's vast camera and lens collection. We also hear about Mike's home made kaleidoscope filter that has a hole where one might expect to see beads.

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MIKE EPSTEIN Frame Focus Foto

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SMC Pentax-M 50mm f1.7

NIKKOR-S 5cm f1.4

Voigtlander Bessa R3M And 50mm f2 Heliar Classic

Pentax 645

Yashica 6x6 TLRs Voigtlander Bessa R2S & R2C Rangefinders

Voigtlander Bessa R3M And 50mm f2 Heliar Classic

Amazon Best Sellers

Make a Kaleidoscope

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On last week’s show, Perry got big Rolleiflex GAS, so big that he was forced to buy one. SPOILER ALERT! However, Perry’s path to Xenotar enlightenment was not as flat and true as it should have been, and his Rolleiflex dream was crushed. Fear not, for Simon now has Rolleiflex GAS and Perry’s not done with the iconic TLR just yet. Step in Johnny to fan the flames of their new desire… ________

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Rolleiflex Buying Guide

Rolleiflex 2.8 Series

Six Months with the Rolleiflex 2.8 D

The Digital Analog Collective

Ultra Low ISO Club Podcast

Harry Fleenor’s Rolleiflex TLR Serial Number Guide

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Having tried and failed at math(s) last week, this week you can listen us decipher cryptic numbers and pictograms from the mid-20th Century. If that sounds odd, then things get worse, but at least there are some sane listener emails and along with some Dame Judy Dench lust.

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Contax AX

Ten Classic East German Cameras

Rollei VB

Ancient Exposure Guides

flilterfind.net

Roger Waters - Amused to Death

Ricky Gervais - AfterLife

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We’ve been doing it wrong all the time: Perry explains why we should be relying on math(s) to help use choose which lenses to take with us on a photography trip. Put your faith in percentage differences he says. Hmm. We plough/plow through listener email(s) and explain why we missed a show last week.

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Kobalux/Avenon 28mm f3.5

Voigtlander 28mm f/3.5 Color-Skopar

Yashica YE

Fujifilm Instax Wide Field of View Calculator

https://usedlens.co.uk/

Take a Scroll Through Malört's History

Laphroig

Medicinal Alcohol

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CLP122 #Malort #Laphroig #Instax #YashicaYE #Kobalux28mm

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Nick Lyle, our guest from Show #61 (and the Homemade Camera Podcast), makes a triumphant return this week. Nick helps us out with a range of topics including how lens blooming led to modern lens coatings and selecting lenses to suit certain film types. Whilst most of us adapt lenses to a camera, Nick makes prefers to make a camera to suit a lens...

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CLP121 #NickLyle #BronicaS2 #Petri

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Simon's newly acquired Minolta X-500 appears to melting his stone cold heart when it comes to all things Rokkor, but don't get too excited, it's more of a light thaw than a flash flood of Himalayan melt water. Perry bashes Zeiss optics in the topsy turvy new world, but fortunately Johnny's keeping us grounded with his unvarnished opinions.

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Series 6 Filters Filterfind.net

Vivitar 28mm f2.8

Leitz Summar 50mm f2

Icarex 35CS

58mm Biotar f2 Jena

Minolta X500

Minolta ‘Glow’

15mm Voigtlander Finder

Classic Lenses Podcast T-Shirts

Exakta to Minolta Adapters Fundraiser to rebuild Central Camera

Central Camera Company T-shirts ________

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After throwing knobs in #89, Perry returns to the subject this week with an in depth discussion of his favorite appendage as well as his lockdown GAS buying spree. Johnny talks about some bargain yet suspiciously familiar camera equipment that is showing up for sale in Chicago as well as delivering buying advice to Simon's about his dream Exakta RTL 1000.

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Voigtlander Viewfinders

Voigtlander Lenses with Focusing Stick

Kobalux / Avenon 28mm f3.5

Topcon R

Topcon RE

Exakta RTL 1000

Kodak Medalist

Zeiss Ikon Contaflex I (861/24)

Large Format Photography Podcast:

30 Great Reciprocity With Clyde Butcher

Bronica S2A Type II Tilt/Shift Bellows

LEICA M10 Monochrom

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CLP119 #Voigtlander #FocusTabs #Topcon #Exakta #KodakMedalist #BronicaS2 #LFPP #LeicaM10Monochrom

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A short episode about current events that strike close to home. Johnny provides local insights the destruction of Central Camera Company in Chicago as a result of the unrest sweeping the US following the murder of George Floyd. Warning: politics are discussed.

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Central Camera Company blog regarding the destruction CBS2 Chicago Live interview with Don Flesch, owner of Central Camera

Radio interview with Don Flesch about Central Camera

Chicago Tribune story about Central Camera Fundraiser to rebuild Central Camera

Central Camera Company T-shirts

Organizations working for justice and accountability:

George Floyd Memorial Fund

Chicago Community Bond Fund

360 Nation Chicago

Know Your Rights Camp

The Bail Project

The National Bail Fund Network

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Communities United Against Police Brutality

Minnesota Freedom Fund

Black Visions Collective

Reclaim The Block ________

EPISODE 118 TAGS

CLP118 #GeorgeFloyd #BLM #CentralCamera #since1899 #wedofilm

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Back from the defeat by Mike Novak on last week’s Pub Quiz show, we’re handling it well, or at least two of us are. This week Simon opens his lens cupboard door and invites Johnny and Perry to direct his hands into its dark depths. What will he pull out?

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Vivitar Lenses The DKL Lens Thread Yeenon DKL to M42 Lens Mount Adapter Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 45mm f2.8 DKL Schneider-Kreuznach Retina-Curtagon 35mm f2.8 DKL Carl Zeiss Distagon 28mm f2.8 T* Contax/Yashica Petri Penta M42 35mmc: Mamiya RZ67 Lenses & Accessories

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CLP117 #Bokakkeh #CupboardLenses #Macro #PetriPenta #SchneiderKreuznach #Vivitar #MamiyaRZ67 #Distagon #ContaxYashica #CarlZeiss

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So you think you know about lenses? Come and have a go at the Classic Lenses Podcast Pub Quiz! Quizmaster Perry Ge puts hosts Johnny & Simon against each other and the might of uber photo gnome, Mike Novak. Who will take the gold? More importantly, who's going home with a sad silver medal face?

MIKE NOVAK flickr | Instagram | Beautiful Grainy Mush

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CLASSIC LENSES PODCAST PUB QUIZ #1

ROUND 1: GENERAL LENS KNOWLEDGE

Which camera company made Sekor lenses?
What is the significance of the following 3 places: Midland, Solms, Wetzlar?
How many elements are there in the original Petzval lens?
What do the following lenses all have in common? Zeiss 50mm f1.4 Planar, Super Takumar 55mm f1.8, Canon 35mm f2 LTM, Olympus Pen 38mm f1.8, Leica 50mm Summicron
The Canonet QL17 is one of world’s most beloved fixed lens rangefinders. What do the QL and 17 stand for? (Need both)
Who was Ludwig Bertele?
Taylor Hobson & Cooke, in all their brand iterations, are as we know legendary British lens manufacturers. Name two other relatively prominent British lens manufacturers (not camera) that were not part of the Taylor Hobson/Cooke companies.
Which lens design was reportedly so admired by Japanese Emperor Hirohito that he would only allow his picture to be taken with lenses of that design?
Which lens brand/rebrand was sold by the American camera company Ritz Camera?
What is the lens on the Yashica MAT-124G?
Ernst Ludwig made a 50mm Meritar lens for Exakta and M42 mount. What is the maximum aperture of that lens?
How many different max apertures were there of 50mm Minolta MD lenses?
What was the only LTM lens made by Olympus.

14: Which French company is widely credited with making the first wide angle retrofocus lens?

This lens is an extremely fast medium format normal lens made for a Japanese medium format SLR. In the USA, the camera was sold co-branded with a legendary maker of large format cameras. Name the camera and lens.
This ultra-rare monstrously huge lens is one of the rarest and most expensive lenses ever made. Introduced in 1972, it has a 220 degree angle of view, weighs 5.2 kilos, and produces a circular image on a standard 135 film negative.
This lens manufacturer was one of many that produced lenses for the Vivitar brand. Vivitar lenses made by this company had 37 as the first two digits of their serial number. It still exists today.
(4 points) Soviet lens factories - in which city is their factory located? a) LOMO b) Arsenal c) KMZ d) FED

ROUND 2: CATEGORIES

German lens manufacturers.
Which Nikkor lenses were made natively in Nikonos Mount?

ROUND 3: LINKS

Which Japanese beer shares a name with a lens and camera company?
Which camera company shares a name with a type of Apple?
Which famous astrophysicist shares a first name with a famous German lens manufacturer?
Which UN weapons inspector shares a name with a film development chemical?
Laika was a famous dog that shared a name, phonetically at least, with the camera company. Why was Laika the dog famous?

BONUS ROUND

This Japanese lens manufacturer was purchased by Yashica in 1968 and became part of the Kyocera group in 1983 after the merger of Kyocera and Yashica.
Sears sold a rebranded TLR called the Trumpfreflex. What camera was this a copy of?
Who was the designer of the Bolex Camera and Alpa-Reflex Camera?
What is the focal length and aperture of the Helios 65 lens?
What was the lens on the original Zeiss Ikon Nettar 510 folder?

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Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down

Raspberry Pi

Asian Pears

A Pencil of Rays

Laika the Cosmonaut Dog

Carl Sagan

Snoop Dogg Nails Plinko

Wheel of Fortune Best Spin Ever

Miss Teen USA South Carolina OMFG

Silver Medal Face: The saddest-looking second-place finishers in Olympic history

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CLP116 #ClassicLensesPubQuiz #AsianPears #Laika #Novakian #SadSilverMedalFace

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Johnny has been allowed back into our own Facebook group and his ban seems to have done him and everybody else a world of good. The sun has been shining, and even Simon has taken a photo (plural, in fact!) Perry is deep in the Cooke Panchro zone. Added to this unnaturally good mood, Someone's knockin' at the door Somebody's ringin' the bell... ________

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Arsenal Mir 24-H

Vivitar Series 1 90mm f2.5 VMC 1:2 Macro "Bokakkehkina”

Kuribayashi C.C. Petri Orikkor 50mm f2

Rolleiflex 2.8c Xenotar

KMZ FT-2

Rollei 35 RF

M-Rokkor 40mm f2 CLE

FOMAPAN 200 Creative

Filmed with Cooke Lenses

Cooke Speed Panchro Cinematography

‘The Spy’ Cinematography

Moraine Hills State Park, McHenry, Illinois

Great Egret

Sandhill Crane

Beer Direct, Stoke-On-Trent

It’s not a Takoomah!

BokakkehCouto Camera Company on eBay

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Let 'Em In - Paul McCartney & Wings

Wings - The Fall

Broken Wings - Mr. Mister

Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix

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CLP115 #Bokakkeh #Rolleiflex #Rollei35RF #ArsenalMir24H #Vivitar90mmVMC #Bokina #PetriOrikkor50mmf2 #KMZFT2 #M-Rokkor40mmf2 #Fomapan200 #CookePanchro #TheSpy #MoraineHillsStatePark #GreatEgret #SandhillCrane #Takoomah #BluebellWoods #RobbieJ #Wings

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Something of a quickie this week, but we managed to unload plenty of lens talk as well as discuss Chris Holland’s lens buying guide and introduce a luscious new word.

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Kiev 88

Tair-33 300mm f4.5

Zeiss-Opton Biogon 35mm f2.8

Polaroid 195

Classic Lens Buying Guide and 10-Point Checklist Rolleiflex 2.8c

Bokakkeh

Couto Camera Company on eBay

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CLP114 #Bokakkeh #Bukakke #Buttcrack #WetOnWet #Polaroid195 #Tair33 #Kiev88 #ZeissOptonBiogon35mm #Rolleiflex #RolleiRF35

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Dr Karl Havens left us a year ago this week and we still miss him dearly. To mark his passing, we take Karl’s memory to our desert island and do our best to work out what cameras and lenses he might have taken with him. So please come and take a trip that Karl would have loved and hated in equal measure as we agonize over what he may have picked.

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Karl’s Desert Island Selections: Sony A7II Voigtländer Bessa R3A Fuji X-E2 Voigtländer Nokton SC 40mm f1.4 Canon 50mm 1.4 LTM (Top Mint+++++ No Worms) Voigtländer 15mm f4.5 Super Wide Heliar LTM

Honorable Mentions: Leica IIIa Olympus Pen EEs Olympus Pen F G.Zuiko Auto-S 40mm f1.4 Olympus OM 180 f2.8 Voigtländer 21mm Color-Skopar Voigtländer Color Heliar 75mm f2.5 Asahi Takumar 58mm 2.4 Heliar Nippon Kogaku Nikkor-P 10.5cm f2.5 Nippon Kogaku Nikkor-P 85mm f2 Nikon Nikkor-S 55mm f1.2 NON-AI Nikon 24mm f2.8 AI-s Lester A. Dine 105mm f2.8 Helios 44 50mm f2 M39 (‘Triple Zed’ Politburo Special Edition) KMZ Mir 1-B 37mm f2.8 Helios-103 53mm f1.8

Ultimate 3d Pop Dream Lenses: Voigtlander 50mm f3.5 VM Heliar ZEISS C Sonnar T 50mm f1.5 ZM ZEISS Distagon T 35 f1.4 ZM ZEISS Biogon T* 35mm f2 ZM

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Johnny could not be with us this week, he’s felling a little better but he has other pressing concerns, so Perry and Simon man up and take on the mammoth task of responding to your emails. In the last podcast, Simon asked listeners for feedback on what they wished to hear in future shows and boy did you tell us! So sit back in safe isolation and hopefully enjoy the show.

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Sebastião Salgado: Genesis

Abstract: The Art of Design — Platon

Classic Lens Buying Guide and 10-Point Checklist

Adapt projector lenses to Pantax 67

A Guide to Cinelux Lenses

Carl ZEISS 28mm f/2.8 Biogon T*

Enna München Lithagon 35mm f3.5

Enna München Tele-Ennalyt 90mm f2.8

Contax G to Leica M Lens Conversions

LEICA 90mm f2.8 ELMARIT

'Unknown Spain', forward by Simon Forster

Serengeti & Kenny Segal’s New Album 'Ajai'

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We're back after another two week lockdown lay-off and it seems that few things have changed. None of us has gone outside to shoot, Perry is digging LTM lenses, Simon's making lens caps and Johnny.... let's say that he's still under doctor's care and that's the best explanation for his flat field focus lecture.

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Spiratone 75mm Flat Field Macro Lens

Flektogon 35mm 2.8

Mir 37mm f2.8

Chiyoko Super Rokkor 5cm f2

Petri Color Corrected Super 4.5cm f1.9

Malort Hand Sanitizer

Jeppson’s… Bourbon?

Curved Field And Flat Field Lenses

Process Camera Peter Defty Process Camera Portraits

Circumscribe a Square Around a Circle

Circle of Confusion

Olympus Microscopy Resource Center

General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark

Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11

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CLP111 #FlatField #Covid19 #Malort #ChiyokoSuperRokkor5cm #Mir37mm #Flektogon35mm #SquareCircle #CircleOfConfusion #SigueSigueSputnik

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Oh boy... The world has changed a little in the two weeks since our last recording, but thankfully Perry wants to talk about Exakta and Topcon lenses. The elephant that calls itself Covid-19 makes it's presence known and we talk through the different experiences that the we have encountered and how it is affecting our photographic worlds. Not all the bleeping is Johnny swearing. On a more positive note, Simon launches his new range of lens caps so that your more obscure lenses can be protected from scratches and contagion.

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AkArette Camera Topcon RE Super

There's a stink bug on my microphone

Nut Milking

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It’s finally here: we’ve made the long-awaited Digitization Special! In this episode we are joined by two titans of the digitization world, Hamish Gill of Pixl-latr (and other stuff) and Nate Johnson, the man behind the brilliant Negative Lab Pro plugin for Lightroom. We cover as many bases as possible, going through the pros and cons of different digitization methods, and Hamish throws in a couple of rants for good measure.

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EPISODE 109 GUESTS

Hamish Gill pixl-latr (new website coming soon)

Nathan Johnson Negative Lab Pro | X-Chrome

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Adobe Creative Cloud Scanner Types Comparison

Understanding Dynamic Range

Photo Scanner Technology Explained

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CLP109 #HamishGill #NathanJohnson #pixllatr #NegativeLabPro #XChrome #Digitizing #Scanning

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It's Pulaski Day in Chicago, and we're celebrating by talking about adapting lenses. We lose Simon part way through the episode, but Perry and Johnny continue on. The guys talk about a number of unique classic lenses ideal for adapting, and take a deep dive into the techniques for fitting them to film and digital cameras.

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Yeenon eBay Shop

Extreme Macro – Focusing Helicoids

Fujitar P.C 35mm F2.5 Asahiflex Lens Test

Canon 25mm f/3.5 LTM

Little Garden in Hong Kong

35mmc – That Time I Shot an 18-55mm APS-C Digital Lens on a 35mm Pentax Film Camera

Cameraquest – Voigtlander Vitessa L: Most Elegant 35 Folder

Wollensak Fastax 16mm High Speed Camera

"McCloud" TV Intro

Polish Museum of America – Pulaski Day

Chicago Sun-Times – What Casimir Pulaski Day means to Chicago

WBEZ Curious City – The Rise of Casimir Pulaski Day VPK-X Photography on Facebook

Pulaski Day Playlist

Kidd Russell – Pulaski Day

Sufjan Stevens – Casimir Pulaski Day

Big Black – Kasimir S. Pulaski Day

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The dust has only just settled from the fallout from last week’s show, as we had a record number of comments made about it in our small but perfectly formed Facebook group. Calm has now been restored with some serial number serendipity and Perry’s new acquisitions, one of which uses similar letters to a lens that Simon loves. Also, how to photograph a pimp whilst maintaining his annonyminity. All in all, plenty of Rodenstock and Schneider-Kreuznach lens action along with the classic lens powerhouse camera, the Agfa ePhoto 780.

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A History of the Xenon Lens by Cheyenne Morrison

Schneider-Kreuznach Xenon 50mm f2 by M42 Mount Spiral

Schneider-Kreuznach Xenon 50 mm f2 at Allphotolenses

Agfa ePhoto 780

Wolverhampton Camera Fair Simon’s awesome New Exakta Rear Lens Caps!

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CLP107 #Exakta #Xenon #Rodenstock #SchneiderKreuznach #AgfaePhoto780 #AnilMistry

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Anil Mistry makes a very welcome return to CLP Towers this week and there’s not a Leica or RF lens in sight, much to the relief to those aspiring street photographers that don’t dig rangefinders. Anil presides over a Fuji vs. Sony fight in which three of the four people on the podcast think that Fuji being a camera company automatically means he should buy a Fuji over a Sony. All this nonsense and loads of lens talk, Japanese Helios, the joy of (digital) printing, and an inexplicable decent into hip-hop.

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Pentax ME Super

Cosina CT1 Super

Voigtlander Bessaflex TM

Ricoh KR-10

MIR-1 37mm f2.8

Minolta MC Rokkor PG 50mm f1.4

Meyer-Optik Görlitz Lydith 30mm f3.5

Industar-50 50mm f3.5

Helios Auto Wide Angle 35mm f2.8

Rubinar 500mm f5.6 mirror

Carl Zeiss Sonnar T* 135mm f2.8 (C/Y)

Lomography Neptune Convertible Art Lens System

Contaflex SLR

SMC Pentax-M 40mm f2.8

Voigtlander 40mm f2 Ultron SLII

Fujifilm X-T2 vs Sony A7R II

Signs and Wonders: The Photographs of John Beasley Greene - the Art Institute of Chicago

Early and Unknown: Photographs from the Archive of Joseph Sterling - Stephen Daiter Gallery

Great Sea restaurant in Chicago - Eater Chicago

Korea’s Black Day: When Sad, Single People Get Together And Eat Black Food - Smithsonian Magazine

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CLP106 #anilmistry #FujivsSony

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EPISODE 106 SHOUTOUTS Hong Joon Lee | Ron Wightman | Patrick Vennari

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This week, Perry discusses life and photography in Hong Kong on Coronavirus lockdown, Simon attempts to survive the Great Stone-on-Trent Snowpocalypse of 2020, and Johnny risk life and limb in Chicago for hotdogs. The guys also discuss different flavours of Canon 35mm LTM lenses, photo-free photo walks, and life as a Leicaman. Emails and shoutouts as well.

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Mike Walker on Instagram

Ken Rockwell - The LEICAMAN (aka Ricardo Bayon)

Canon Camera Museum - S Lenses

Fup Duck Photography - Angle of view

Hasselblad - ‘Equivalent' 35 mm format (24x36 mm) focal lengths

DSLR Bodies - Making Sense of Nikon Lens Abbreviations

Viewfinder Vikings, Episode 22 - Free Film!

Homemade Camera Podcast

FuckYoSwag.com - Promotion, Music and Video Production

No bond for man who shot himself in penis whilst robbing hot dog stand on Halloween

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The Fall - Hit The North

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow

The Corona Virus Song 2020 - Joshua vlogs

Coronavirus Song - Bob Fred III

Coronavirus Song - Stephen Paul Taylor

Coronavirus Song - Jake Sing

Coronavirus Song - Sound of Silence Parody by Alvin Oon

Grinderman - No Pussy Blues (Live on Later)

Serengeti - Dennehy

Jack McBrayer & Triumph Visit Chicago's Weiner's Circle - CONAN on TBS

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CLP105 #coronavirus #snowpocalypse #ContaxG2 #LeicaM3 #CanonTLMlenses #fuckyoswag #hotdogstand

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Johnny’s back and he’s got a new toy, Perry has moved on from shooting riots to shooting the Zombie Apocalypse that is Coronavirus Hong Kong, and Simon is utterly confused as to whether familiarity with equipment is the road to photography enlightenment or whether it’s just great gear or both and neither. Also this show we get through a backlog of great emails from listeners.

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Sunny 16 Podcast episode 187 with Perry Ge Sunny 16 branch Photo Meetup and Stroll

Japan Exposures: Converted Contax G Lenses for Leica M Photoethnography.com's Classic Camera DB: Leica M3 johanniels.com: Leica M3

35mmc: Double Stroke vs. Single Stroke (Leica M3)

35mmc: Palubel Makina 67 Ken Rockwell: Nikon 13mm f5.6 Ken Rockwell: Voigtländer 40mm f/2 Cameraquest.com: Voigtlander SL 12/5.6 and SL 15/4.5 for Nikon F DAG Camera: Static electricity on M3 glass pressure plate ________

EPISODE 104 TAGS

CLP104 #FringePinching #FunnyRainbows #ContaxG2 #LeicaM3 #Coronavirus

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Ethan Moses, esteemed podcast tart of Cameradactyl, Homemade Camera Podcast, and guest on every other podcast ever fame, joins us to talk about lenses, lots and lots of lenses. Mamiya Press lenses, his favourite Nikon and rangefinder glass, and medium format Russian lenses. For listeners of a nervous disposition, Ethan does not treat his lenses with tender loving care. Also Johnny was feeling under the weather this week, so Perry talks too much about RF lenses to Ethan instead.

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Mamiya Press System

One Shot: Inchindown

Nikon EM

Canon Canonette 1965 TV Commercial

Kiev 60 / Pentacon Six Standard Lens Test

Kiev 60

Jupiter-8 50mm f2

Jupiter-3 50mm f1.5

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CLP103 #CAMERADACTYL #BRANCOPAN #HomemadeCameraPodcast

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Not content to bring one special lens to the party, Perry brings three absolute stunners with him, while Simon’s back shooting his Sony. We also catch up on Johnny in the darkroom (yes he did say he was done with that), and catch up on the emails we ran out of time to discuss last week. A show packed to the gills with lens talk in an attempt hold on to those listeners we alienated in show #100… So buckle up for some serious Zeiss, Pentax, Petzval, Industar, Taylor Hobson and Olympus action!

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Industar-22

New Petzval 58 Bokeh Control Art Lens

Leitz 9cm f4 Elmar

The Bokeh Factory - Palecwnosie

Taylor, Taylor & Hobson Cooke Ivotal Anastigmat 1 inch f/1.4 Made (C-Mount)

Converted Contax G Lenses

Early Takumar Lenses in M42

Basic Photographic Sensitometry Intro by Kodak

Characteristic Curve by NFSA

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CLP102 #Industar22 #NewPetzval58mm #9cmElmar #BokehFactory #CookeIvotalAnastigmat1inch #ContaxGConverted #Takumar83mm #ContactPrints #CharacteristicCurve #Sensitometry

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So, after our almost universally acclaimed and made for YouTube extravaganza better known as #100, we’re back on the radio/podcast. Normal service is resumed with Johnny & Perry going on about scale focusing issues that could easily be dealt with by adapting to digital or just shooting an SLR camera, and we still love our panorama cameras. We have some excellent emails this week leading to plenty of lens and camera talk, plus we launch our latest lens giveaway. Be warned attempting to win the lens will come at a heavy price…

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Rolleicord Vb

Rolleiflex 3.5f

Mamiya 6

Moe Mamiya 6

Agfa Record III

Zenza Bronice ETRsi

Zenza Bronica S2A

Topcor 50mm f3.5

Depth of Field

Moody Bible Institute

Compact Bible Magnifier Sheets

Some guy named Edward Weston makes a contact print

Scientists put 3D glasses on cuttlefish ________

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CLP101 #MediumFormat #6x6 #6x9 #6x4.5 #Rolleiflex

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Our second anniversary and our 100th show. To mark the occasion professional lens designer, Jason Lane has returned and this time you get to see the software that Karl, Johnny and Simon were raving about in Karl’s final show, Episode #64. So here’s something of a first for us, a podcast designed to be watched on Youtube, rather than just listened to as an audio file. Having moved away from highly technical shows, here’s one for those people that want to get down and dirty at the lens element scale as Jason gives an insight into the world of lens design.

Watch Episode 100 on YouTube

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100 LINKS

Photographic Lens Design

Photographic Dry Plates

Dioptrique Photographique

Zemax OpticStudio

College of Optical Sciences, The University of Arizona ________

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So having done a Christmas show, the CLP has now completely sold out and done an awards show. So sit back and listen to a list of the usual winning names such as the Nikon D90 etc...

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EPISODE 99: LENSES OF THE YEAR

PERRY MVP (Lens of the Year): Leica 35mm Summicron Version IV "King of Bokeh"

Duo of the Year (Best Camera-Lens Combo): Hasselblad XPan + 45mm f4

Rookie of the Year (Best Newcomer): Fujinon 5cm f2.8 LTM

Sports Personality of the Year (Best Character): Canon 50mm f1.5 LTM

Special Mention (Best Non-Rangefinder Lens): Olympus Pen F 38mm f1.8

SIMON Lens of My Year: Helios/Cyclop 100mm f2 Simon's Cyclop on eBay

Lens of My Year Runner-Up: Schneider Curtagon 35mm f4 PA

Camera of My Year: Horizon 202

Camera of My Year Runner-Up: Contax AX

Lifetime Achievement Award: Carl Zeiss 50mm f1.4 Planar C/Y mount

Brancopan Kickstarter

JOHNNY Lens, Camera, and Film of the Year: Voigtlander Color-Skopar 21mm f/4 LTM with Voigtlander Bessa L + Minolta Panorama Adapter on Ilford XP2 Super

Best Supporting Lens: Canon LTM 35mm f2 + Bessa R (special edition blue, aka the ’Batman Bessa’)

Best New (to me) Lens: Minolta M-Rokkor 40mm f2 + Rollei 35 RF

Medium Format Camera of the Year: Voigtlander Bessa I Skopar 6x9

Digital Camera of the Year: Fuji X100s with Fujinon Super EBC 23mm f2

Point and Shoot Panorama of the Year: Minolta Riva Panorama with 24mm 4.5 lens

Best Soviet Panorama Camera by a Weapons Designer: KMZ FT-2 with Industar-50 f3.5 lens by Fedor Vasilievich Tokarev

Rant-Inspiring Camera of the Year: Nikon D90, and the cheap bastards still using them (in a good way!)

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CLP99 #Lensesoftheyear #TheKarls #yearofthepano

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The CLP breaks with tradition and actually does a Christmas show this year! So what lenses and cameras do Perry, Johnny and Simon want for Christmas? To make it easier/harder the wish list of gear that they want Santa to acquire for them is broken down into price based categories. So that will be a Cameradactyl Brancopan, Voigtlander, Olympus, Canon, Leica, Dallmeyer, KMZ, Mamiya and many more...

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EPISODE 98 LINKS & REFERENCES

CAMERADACTYL Brancopan

Canon F1N

Zuiko Auto-Macro Lens 50mm f2

The Sony a7R IV

Mamiya-Sekor 50 mm f2

Dallmeyer Super-Six 50mm f1.9 Elcan 50mm f2

Rare Earth Glass Leica Lenses

Voigtlander Bessa R4M

Canon Rangefinder 25mm f3.5

Kodak Cine Ektar 25mm f1.9

Olympus OM-D E-M10

M a la Carte

Krasnogorsk FT-1. FT-2, FT3

Krasnogorsk FT-2

RHEINBLICKE Panorama FT-2

LEICA IIIa

Leitz Elmar 3,5cm f3.5

Optical scheme of elmar 3,5 cm

Voigtlander Bessa III 667W

Voigtlander Bessa III Wide 667 Rangefinder

Fuji GF670 / Voigtlander Bessa III

Minolta Panorama Adapter

Super Chonk

Johanniels.com: 7 favorite lenses for screw mount Leicas

What is the Panorama format and which cameras have it? The U.S. Minicam Boom, By Fortune Editors: October 1, 1936

EPISODE 98 XMAS PLAYLIST

Dirty Jingle Bells

Who put the Stump up my Rump?

Chipmunks Roasting On An Open Fire

Father Christmas

Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis

Hark The Herald Angels Sing

Santa Doesn't Cop Out On Dope

Space Christmas

Hooray for Santa Claus

Black Christmas

The Christmas Song

The Hanukkah Song

All I want for Christmas is Baby Yoda

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CLP98 #CLPXMAS2019

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Perry is taking a tough break in Bali, so this week we go back to Karl Haven's favourite coffee, tea & chocolate shop: Volta Coffee, Tea & Chocolate! We chatted with Anthony back in February 2019, and Anthony's collection has not diminished at all. He joins us for a relaxed chat covering some of his latest toys. We also read a few emails from around the world with extra care taken regarding name pronunciations...

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EPISODE 97 LINKS & REFERENCES

The Karl Havens Excellence Endowment More about the Fund

Online Auction of Karl’s Artwork Support the Karl Havens Excellence Endowment

Voigtländer Bessa Folders

Voigtländer Perko

Agfa Super Isolette

Certo Six 'The Sunnies' 4th Annual Sunny 16 Podcast Awards: Place your votes! Homemadecamera.com

Audubon Christmas Bird Count

The Guy Who Over-Pronounces Foreign Words SNL ‘Enchilada’ 11/10/90

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EPISODE 97 TAGS

CLP97 #AnthonyRue #VoltaCoffee #KarlHavens #VoigtlanderFolders #AudubonChristmasBirdCount #Enchilada #AudubonSociety #TheSunnies2019

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All is well again at The Gilded CLP Tower as Johnny's connection problems are resolved and Perry has not been gassed (recently). Simon hands back Jeremy North's wonderful Contax G2 and is immediately loaned something even more special for a forthcoming light painting workshop. Is looking at great work by other photographers, a bad thing? Is all art political? Does Big Mouth Billy Bass drink Malört?

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EPISODE 96 LINKS & REFERENCES

http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Rollei_35_RF Hasselblad SWC

Magnum Photos: Chaos by Koudelka, 1986-1997 Big Mouth Billy Bass

WGN News: Bar installs 70+ Big Mouth Billy Bass fish to sing popular songs

The $35 Bokeh Beast: Fotasy 35mm f1.7

One Shot: Inchindown, The World’s Largest Darkroom

Emulsive: Comparing Fujifilm NEOPAN 100 ACROS II to original ACROS

The Kiln: Tech and Creative Coworking space in Worcester UK

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EPISODE 90 TAGS

CLP96 #Rollei35RF #HasselbladSWC #JosefKoudelka #BigMouthBillyBass

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95 Desert Island Lenses with Cheyenne Morrison

This week Cheyenne Morrison joins us as a returning guest from Down Under. We send him from the lovely island of Australia to a much smaller desert island, washed ashore with three lenses from his collection and one dream lens. Johnny is missing this week, but in the meantime, Simon continues his November purchasing spree, while Perry shoots digital and gets tear gassed again.

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EPISODE 95 LINKS & REFERENCES

Carl Zeiss Jena Biotar 75mm f/1.5

Carl Zeiss Jena Prakticar 50mm f/1.4 - World's 1st modified to M42 mount

Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 50mm f2.8 - 5 element, 15 blade version

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EPISODE 90 TAGS

CLP95 #CheyenneMorrison #CarlZeissJenaBiotar #SchneiderKreuznachXenar #CarlZeissJenaPrakticar

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So, we tried to make a shorter show this week and ended up making our longest episode. In our defence/defense, we missed a week so we had so much to catch up upon. After a bit of bowel shaming by Simon, we start off by reflecting on on Perry's audio dairy from last week before going full on lens nerdery. Stay tuned for zoom love 'n' hate, Simon gets an Orikkor at last, don't freeze your Ilford film without opening it first, "No GAS November", Yashinon 5cm f2, Fujinon55mm f2.2, and NWA burgers.

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EPISODE 94 LINKS & REFERENCES

New Petzval 55 mm f1.7 MKII Petri 50mm f2 Kuribayashi C.C. What is the difference between an AI lens, an AI-S lens, and Non-AI lens? Through the F-Mount - Nikkor History: Manual Focus Zooms In Perspective - Fup Duck Photography

100 Years of Tear Gas - The Atlantic

Neda Agha-Soltan

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EPISODE 94 MIX TAPE: TEAR GAS BURGERTIME

Fuck tha Police - NWA

Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant

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EPISODE 90 TAGS

CLP94 #HongKong #ZoomLenses #NoGASNovember #IlfordSilverTicket

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A special audio diary documenting Perry’s experiences photographing Hong Kong's most harrowing week since the protests began almost six months ago. Perry has been out on the streets almost every day covering what could turn out to be an historic series of events.

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PLAYLIST

Glory To Hong Kong Ember Island: Umbrella Do You Hear the People Sing? Dixie Chicks: Not Ready to Make Nice

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We’ve not had the time to read out and discuss listener emails recently, so it’s about time we caught up with them. Well, that was the intention, but Johnny and Perry had other ideas and came over all artistic… Plenty of subjects under discussion, including the Canon LTM 50/1.4, 50mm f2 lenses, focus shift, Taylor Hobson 2” f2 Anastigmat, 75mm Biotar, Robot lenses, and mild disappointment with Perry’s star 35mm purchases mentioned last week.

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EPISODE 93 LINKS & REFERENCES

Barbara Crane: Grids

Barbara Crane: Whole Roll

IIT Institute of Design: Remembering Barbara Crane

Robert Clarke-Davis

Keith A. Smith: Structure of the Visual Book 3rd Edition

Chicago 1968: The Whole World Is Watching

What is Focus Shift?

Jasvy Photography - Canon 35mm f1.5 LTM

Canon Camera Museum - Canon 35mm f1.5 LTM

Mike Eckman - Topcon RE Super (1963)

RE Auto Topcor lenses

Jason Howe - The Japanese Summilux: Canon 50mm f1.4 LTM

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EPISODE 90 TAGS

CLP93 #BarbaraCrane #RobertClarkeDavis #CanonLTM #Nikkor #TopconRE #Topcor #FocusShift #HongKong #TaylorHobsonf2Anastigmat #75mmBiotar

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A diverse, engaging, funny and occasionally dark conversation this week with author and former photojournalist John R. Bruning. John talks about how using classic lenses helped him back to normality. Plus, Perry manages to justify buying two subtlety different 35mm lenses, advice on selling children, and how protest photography can become enthralling. No emails this week, we will cover them next week.

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EPISODE 92 LINKS & REFERENCES

Canon 35mm f1.5 LTM

Canon 35mm f1.8 LTM

Canon 50mm f1.4 LTM Tamarkin Rare Camera Auction

Allison Morgan Rockin’ Blues Photography

chengwaihok on Instagram

4 Spirits Distillery

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SIMON'S LENSES FOR SALE

Nikon LTM 8.5cm f/2 Nikon LTM 10.5cm f/2.5 Helios-40 85mm f/1.5 Canon LTM 50mm f/1.4 EPISODE 90 TAGS

CLP92 #JohnRBruning #Sylvie #Indestructible #CanonLTM

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We have new acquisitions, and for once, it’s not Perry bringing all the gems to the party… So we have 75mm f/1.5 Biotar talk, an almost complete Contax G2 system in black, as well as the Grail Lens that Perry wanted to take to his desert island. In addition, we talk about the Auto-Takumar 35/3.5, M-Rokkor 40/2, and gifts from Karl's Brother, Todd Havens.

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EPISODE 91 LINKS & REFERENCES

Carl Zeiss Jena Biotar 75mm f/1.5

Taylor Hobson Anastigmat 2inch ｆ2.0

Reid & Sigrist Ltd. Cameras 1947-1964

Reid I and III Cameras

Auto-Takumar 35mm f3.5

M-Rokkor 40mm f2

Contax G2

Petri Kuribayashi/Kyoei 35mm f3.5

Exakta VX

Canon L2 Canon Camera Museum: Rangefinders

EPISODE 91 MIX TAPE: 'NO TINY SCRATCH'

Grandmaster Flash - Wildstyle

De La Soul - Me Myself And I Beastie Boys - Live in Amsterdam

Run DMC - Jam Master Jay Public Enemy - Rebel Without A Pause

EPISODE 91 TAGS

CLP91 #NoTinyScratch #TaylorHobsonAnastigmat2inch #CarlZeissJenaBiotar75mm #AutoTakumar35mm #MRokkor40mm #ContaxG2 #ExaktaVX #CanonL2

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This week we make a departure into the world of classic lenses for cinema. We are joined by W.S (Bill) Pivetta a cinematographer and sound engineer with a love/obsession with old lenses. Bill mainly shoots on digital film making equipment and loves to hunt down old lenses to adapt them for movie making. Once Bill has bought a lens, it stays with Bill, and his collection is quite astonishing. Loads of subject matter is covered so go and get some popcorn and have a listen.

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EPISODE 90 LINKS & REFERENCES

Visual Products

Duclos Lenses

Cooke Optics Parfocal Lenses The Mitchell BNC

Wollensak Fastax

Alexa 65mm CineStill

CineStill 800T

Kodak Cine Film

Kodak: Real Film Chicago Reader: W.D. Floyd - Ode to the Green Line

EPISODE 90 FILMOGRAPHY

‘Victoria’ review

'Victoria' director Sebastian Schipper

‘Victoria’ cinematographer Sturla Brandth Grovlen

‘Dunkirk’ in 70mm

‘Once Upon A Time in Hollywood’ in 70mm

Alfred Hitchcock - ‘Rope’

Orson Welles - ‘Touch of Evil’

EPISODE 90 TAGS

CLP90 #WSPivetta #CineLenses #DuclosLenses #SebastianSchipper #ChristopherNolan #QuintinTarantino #AlfredHitchcock #OrsonWelles #CookeOptics #EmulsiveSanta2019

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Perry's back from his punishment break to Okinawa with the biggest international news story from Hong Kong. If that's not enough, he's got GAS real bad and it's contagious... Plus the usual discussions about Petri lenses, clip on viewfinders, the death of Spectra film, Kodak Medalist, Olympus XA, Contax T, Developing Kodachrome, Fuji X-100, Ricoh GR, and lenses galore!

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EPISODE 89 LINKS & REFERENCES

Studio C-41: He Reverse Engineered Kodachrome! Contax T

Contax T

Ricox GR II

Minox 35 GT

Kodak Medalist

Petri SLRs

Polaroid Spectra Cameras

Emulsive Secret Santa 2019

UV Photography UV Photography

Dorset knob-throwing festival cancelled for 2020

EPISODE 89 PLAYLIST

Chipzel - Spectra

Three3 Six6 Mafia - Slob On My Knob (explicit)

Jeff Bridges - The Weary Kind

EPISODE 89 TAGS

CLP89 #Minox #Alcall35mmLTM #CanonT60 #ContaxT #PolaroidSpectra #RicohGRII #EmulsiveSecretSanta #JeffBridges

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Banished to Okinawa for treating Graeme Jago badly last week, Perry retaliates with a list of demands about how this week’s show is conducted. The tight editorial constraints see Johnny and Simon resort to a plethora of listeners emails as well as talk about rat photography, don’t put that Aero Ektar too close to me, changing the recording slot to allow for whiskey, and Ooftah is the word.

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EPISODE 88 LINKS & REFERENCES

Ultra Low ISO Club Podcast

Viewfinder Vikings Podcast

The Hypersensitive Photographers Podcast

Negative Positives Film Photography Podcast

Sunny 16 Podcast

The Large Format Photography Podcast 120NOT120MM

Mike Epstein

Friends of the Chicago River: Mammals and Birds

Chicago: America’s Rat Capital

USA Today: Is your city one of the rattiest in the U.S.? Rat BBQ

City of Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation: Rats in Chicago

23 adorable photos that will change the way you think about rats

Snowy Owls in Chicago

Merrill C. Meigs Field Airport

The Destruction of Meigs Field

Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary: “The Magic Hedge”

The Mississippi Flyway Chicago Bird Collision Monitors: Migratory Bird Rescue and Protection

Without Native Americans, Would We Have Chicago As We Know It?

Pentax K Mount

PentaxForums Lens Review Database: Film Era Pentax K-Mount Lenses

Emulsive: Shooting the Kodak Aero Ektar Emulsive: Building a naked Aero Ektar Speed Graphic

Scott Graham - 37 Different Camera Shutter Sounds

EPISODE 88 PLAYLIST

Public Enemy - Night of the Living Baseheads

Leon Redbone - My Walkin Stick

Pavement - Box Elder

Czesław Mozil - Pentax Song

Pentatonix - Bohemian Rhapsody

RATT - Round And Round

U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name

EPISODE 88 TAGS

PentaxK #AeroEktar #BabySpeedBraphic #ChicagoWildlife #analogmike #CLP88

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Graeme Jago of the Sunny16 Podcast joins the guys to read some Haiku and pick a winner for the Konica lens giveaway. True to form, Mr. Jago can’t resist causing a bit of chaos and picks a fight with Perry about street photography. Perry has a proper rant, then proceeds with counting Haiku syllables like a card shark in Vegas. Graeme also brings a bag of interesting lenses to discuss. Johnny does his best to avoid the Haiku fiasco altogether and Simon does his best to keep this hairy monster of a podcast on track. Spoiler alert: someone wins a lens!

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EPISODE 87 LINKS & REFERENCES

Tair-11a 135mm f2.8

Olympus OM Lenses Zuiko 21mm f2.0 & 21mm f3.5

Nikon F-301 / N2020 X-Fujinon 50 mm f1.6 DM EBC Lens

Haiku Generator

EPISODE 87 PLAYLIST

"Haiku D'Etat" by Mike Aaron & Eddie

"Title Fight" by Western Haikus

"Not About You" by Haiku Hands

EPISODE 86 TAGS

Haiku #GreameJago #Konica40mm #Zuiko #Sunny16 #StreetPhotography #aloha_bigmike

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Deep statements such about whether a camera makes a noise or the photographer as well as, what is "whilst"? Other topics include Contax/Kiev lens adapters, adapter stacking, loud and quite shutters, Pentax 105mm f/2.4 medium Format lens, Agfa Ambi Silette and a couple of Karl Havens anecdotes. Miss you Karl!

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EPISODE 86 LINKS & REFERENCES

Ambi Silette review by Mike Eckman

Pentax 6X7 review at Japancamerahunter.com

The Robot I Camera at Cameraquest.com

Zeiss Ikon review at 35mmc.com

Yeenon Ebay Shop

Agfa Ambi Silette to Leica M Adapter Amadeo Adapters Ebay Shop

Surströmming Official

Surströmming Official in English

Dog Tries Surströmming

Jeppson’s Malort Official

EPISODE 86 PLAYLIST

"Guns Don't Kill People" by Goldie Lookin Chain “Fresh” by Kool & The Gang

"A Shot of Malört" by Robbie Ellis

“The Malört Song (A Waltz for Old Jeppson”) by Archie Powell and The Exports

EPISODE 86 TAGS

TruckerTorpedo #AmbiSilette #Pentax6X7 #ZeissIkon #WLF #AmadeoAdapter #YeenonAdapter #RobotCamera #Malort #Surströmming

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Well the title says it all, except it does not get close! So much to talk about this week as Johnny breaks a camera, Perry is exposed as an eBay noob, and Simon attempts to load a simple load camera, live on the podcast -- what could go wrong? Also in the show, Simon is caught saying something nice about using a rangefinder, we have sympathy for for Lucas Frazee's tragic lens with a great body, and Graeme Jago from the Sunny 16 Podcast is a bad person.

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EPISODE 85 LINKS & REFERENCES

Rollei 35 RF

Minolta M-Rokkor-QF 40mm f2

Ken Rockwell: The Flashlight Test Jeff Bridges: Wide-Lux at 1/15th sec.

Jeff Bridges on the Wide-Lux

It’s only a model…

Kung Fu

Plain Wrap: Green Light, Red Light

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CLP85 #KungFuHaze #PanoJag #LuxAsphOoftah #cheaplenschallenge #MinoltaMRokkorQF #Rollei35AF #JeffBridges #WideLux #KungFu #RedLightGreenLight #FlashLightTest #KenRockwell

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This week we catch up with listeners letters and we announce how listeners will get the chance to win Perry’s #cheaplenschallenge Konica 40mm f/1.8. Plus, weird Topcons, perspective (yes again) and how this discussion affects Hamish Gill’s sanity, and oh, we’re briefly joined by a Super Special Guest.

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EPISODE 84 LINKS & REFERENCES

5cm f1.5 Tokyo Optical Co. Simlar

21mm f4 Cosina Voigtlander Color-Skopar

25mm f4 Cosina Voigtlander Snapshot Skopar

No more rhymes, i mean it! Anybody Want A Peanut?

Jeppson's Malort Unaired Commercial

Different Countries Try Malort

Bill Swerski's Super Fans: Thanksgiving

Serengeti "Dennehy"

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CLP84 #Haiku #21mmColorSkopar #25mmSnapshotSkopar #Sunny16Podacst #Malort #PGHG #SuperFans #CoachDitka #SerengetiDennehy #SoxBearsHawksBulls #cheaplenschallenge

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We mentioned that Mike Novak was in Chicago town last week, and this week we find out what he got up to on his visit with friends and our own Johnny Sisson. Yes, that means lots of talk about “real” pizza, some stuff they call pizza and sell to tourists, dipped sandwiches and why a McDonalds does a roaring trade in ketchup sachets. In between culinary exploits, we learn more about the miniature wonder of the Rollei 35 and why scale/zone focussing does not make a camera useless, as well as comfort zones and Wirgins.

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EPISODE 82 LINKS & REFERENCES

Al’s Beef

Al & Joe’s Deli

Dino’s Pizza & Pasta

Gene & Jude’s

Lou Malnati’s

Kodak Bantam Special

Rollei 2.8e

Rollei 35s

Rollei 35se

Heinz Waaske

Wirgin Cameras

Edixa Reflex

Chicago Portage National Historic Site

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CLP83 #ScaleFocus #FixedLensClassics #Novakian #Rollei35S #ChicagoStyle #beefsausagecombolightdip

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Is the effectiveness of a camera's winding lever enough to justify keeping it, even though Simon can't take a decent picture with the camera for toffee? Is there a Novak in town? Can a plastic Soviet camera be somebody's soul creature? Clearly the answer is yes, but why...?

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EPISODE 82 LINKS & REFERENCES

The Horizon 202

Micro Contrast and the ZEISS ‘Pop’ – by Lloyd Chambers

Leitz Leica Elmar 3,5cm f3.5 Leica 50mm Summilux f1.4 ASPH

LEICA 50mm f/2.8 ELMAR-M (1994-2007)

Canon Camera Museum: The Golden Age of Built-In Rangefinder Cameras

The Dutch Tilt

Why do we take photographs?

New Leica Manual by Morgan and Lester

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We’ve seen much of Edward Noble’s excellent work in the Photography With Classic Lenses Facebook Group, so we asked him to join us for a chat about bokeh panoramas, Infrared, mono and false colour, and his prototype Zeiss lens. Plus, for those that like the less technical side of things, Johnny asks if bokeh panoramas are actually photographs…

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EPISODE 81 LINKS & REFERENCES

Kolarivision Infrared Conversions

IR Hotspot Lens Ratings

David Hockney Photography

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Perry returns, but Simon disappears! Due to some technical difficulties at the Classic Lenses Podcast UK home office, we lose Simon part way through the episode, but Perry and Johnny continue on unsupervised. Perry shares tales of astrophotography and lobster rolls from his holiday in The Maritimes, and gets starry-eyed over his new Topcor 3.5cm lens. Johnny discusses finer points of the Canon IVSB, and pays tribute to his teacher and mentor, Barbara Crane. Bit of a rocky one here without Captain Forster at the helm, but the boys manage to make it through the shoals of episode 80.

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BARBARA CRANE

Website

Museum of Contemporary Photography Stephen Daiter Gallery Chinadaily.com.cn WTTW Chicago

EPISODE 80 LINKS & REFERENCES

Series Filters

Laowa 15mm f2

Canon IVSB User Manual CLP #23: Nikkor 105/2.5 discussion

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CLP80 #WheresSimon #HeresPerry #Topcor35mm #Lowa15mm #CanonIVSB #TravelPhotography #BarbaraCrane

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Perry is still hitting the road to New Brunswick in Canada, so we've asked Eric Sluis to take time out from shooting all sorts of weird activities that go on outside his front door at Mons in Belgium, to take up the hot seat. Having postponed "The Nigel Cliff Question" from last week as it was simply too colossal for the time we had, Eric, Johnny, and Simon tackled the question, "Can a cheap lens compete with an expensive one?" Of course the answer is, "It depends" but extraordinarily, that phrase was not used. Find out our answers, assuming we understood the question...

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EPISODE 79 LINKS & REFERENCES

Vintage Film Shooters on Facebook

CLP 22: Eric Kaas Sluis's Desert Island Lenses CLP 44: Eric Kaas Sluis talks LTM Lenses

CLP 59: Budget Lenses

Topcon Club LTM Topcor Lens Grainy Dayz Podcast

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CLP79 #BestLenses #Topcor #FujiGL690 #ContaxRF #VintageFilmShooters

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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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EPISODE 78 LINKS & REFERENCES

HELIOS 44m-4 to Nikon Adjustment

Camera Mounts Sorted by Register

Garry Winogrand at Rice University

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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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dodho magazine, June 2018

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

Emulsive.org, August 2017

SheShootsFilm, July 2017

Jon Wilkening's podcast, Episode 26, June 2017

EPISODE 77 LINKS & REFERENCES

Hasselblad Flex Body

Cooke Portrait PS945 Lens

Cooke Portrait PS945 Lens review at HKDonut

ZEISS C Biogon T* 2,8/35 ZM

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CLP77 #isabelcurdes #bokeh #ooftah #epiclensdicking

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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 AX

Contax Aria Review by Cheyenne Morrison at casualphotophile.com

Baby Rolleiflex

Horizon 202

Designed by Porsche: The Samsung ECX1 Rube Goldberg All About That Bass

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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

Yashica Yashinon-DX 50mm f2

Konica AR 40mm f1.8

Meyer-Optik Görlitz Domiplan 50mm f2.8

Industar-61 52mm f2.8

Bronica RF645

Zenza Bronica S2

Schneider Kreuznach Xenar 45mm f2.8

Meyer Optik Gorlitz Primoplan 58mm f1.9

Sima Soft 100mm f2

Kodacolor lenticular color cinema process

1933 Chicago World’s Fair in Kodacolor

Vivian Maier

Gary Stochl at the Art Institute of Chicago

Gary Stochl: "all of my shoes are comfortable"

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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

Ginger Beer Recipe

Jeffo Wongs Flickr Albums

Hacking the Ricoh R1 at 35mmc.com

Leitz Elmar 3.5cm f3.5

Leica APO-Telyt-R 180 mm f3.4

Leica Thambar 90mm f2.2

More Leica Thambar 90mm f2.2

Konica UC 35mm f2 by Ken Rockwell Konica UC 35mm f/2 by Dante Stella

Zunow 50mm f1.1 at Tamarkin Camera

Tessar Lenses

Meyer-Optik-Goerlitz Primoplan 58mm f1.9

Zunow Lenses and Cameras

Zunow SLR

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CLP74 #TessarsForSimon #CheapLensForPerry #BokehForJohnny

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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

The Sonblad

Leica CL

Leica 40mm Summicron

Kodak Bantam Special

127 Film

Perry’s Budget Picks: Voigtlander 35mm f2.5 LTM

Perry’s Budget Picks: 7artisans 35mm f2

Canon 50mm f1.8 III LTM

Hasselblad CFV II

Chris Holland: The Lord of the Red Rings

Fishing With Classic Rods

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CLP73 #Sonblad #LeicaCL

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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

Fujifilm GFX 50R

Minolta Rokkor-X 45mm f2

Minolta 85mm f2 Varisoft

Minolta MC 58mm f1.4

Minolta RF Rokkor 250mm f5.6 Mirror Lens

RMC Tokina 17mm f3.5

G.Zuiko 35mm f2.8 M42

Hasselblad XPan

Camera Mounts Sorted by Register

Ring Of Fire

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CLP72 #FujifilmGFX50 #MinoltaRokkor

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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

Zeiss C Biogon T* 2,8/35 ZM

Hasselblad Xpan

Fujifilm Acros II

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

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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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Zeiss C Biogon T* 2,8/35 ZM

Alpa Kern Macro Switar 50mm f1.9

Leica Elmar 50mm f3.5

Voigtländer 35mm f1.4 M NOKTON Classic

Fuji GW690III

The Argus Brick

Little Garden

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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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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EPISODE 69 LINKS

Ricoh 28mm 2.8 LTM

Leica Summicron 35mm f2 V4

Canon 50mm 1.5 LTM

Leica M6

Leica M Typ 240

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A round-up on some the things that we've been up to lately. Simon had a table at the UK's largest camera fair, Photographica 2019 in London, and went mad for Tessars. Johnny traded his Nikon S2 for some magic blue beans in the shape of a Bessa R. Lots of lens talk as usual, listener questions, and we don't manage to answer why Johnny prefers a Kiev to a Nikon S2 and Simon prefers a FED S to a Leica II. Don't forget: Ko-fi donations to the podcast in May will go to the Down Syndrome Association of Central Florida. ________

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Photographica

Topcor-S 5cm f2 LTM

Voigtlander 25mm f4 SC-Skopar

Zenitar 50mm f1.7

Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 180mm f2.8Voigtlander Bessa RNikon S2

Kiev 4AM

Perry Gee

Hamish Gill

Meeting Gorbachev a film by Werner Herzog and André Singer

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Anil Mistry joins us this week to help say goodbye to our friend, Dr Karl Havens.

To honor Karl's memory, his family requests donations be made to the Down Syndrome Association of Central Florida (DSACF)

Ko-fi donations made to the Classic Lenses Podcast during the month of May will also go directly to DSACF

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Special thank you to Karl's family:

Claudia (Havens) Wade, John Havens, Todd Havens

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Thanks you to our friends for participating in this remembrance of Karl:

Graeme Jago and the Sunny 16 Podcast team

Neil Piper

Mike Gutterman

Nigel Cliff

Em of Emulsive

Mike Novak

Rakesh Nar

Ray Rico

Anthony Rue

Cheyenne Morrison

Ήμων Παπαδανιήλ (Imon)

Lawrence Dunn

Roger Lund

Ricardo Bayon

Perry Ge

Eric Sluis

Phil Imagesbyphil

Devlin Cook

Rob Jamieson Bob Matter Jared Tremper

Photography With Classic Lenses community on Facebook

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We don't have a podcast this week, but we've recorded a short update.

A Classic Lenses Podcast dedicated to Karl will be out next week with Anil Mistry as our guest.

Thank you for keeping Karl and his family in your thoughts.

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Karl's Obituary

To honor Karl's memory, the Havens family is grateful for your support of the Down Syndrome Association of Central Florida (DSACF)

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We'd like to hear your memories and thoughts of Karl. Make a recording or type an email and we'll share it on next week's podcast: How to record voice memos on your mobile phone Email your Karl dedication to Classic Lenses Podcast

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Host of the Classic Lenses Podcast, Creator of the Photography With Classic Lenses Facebook group, Professor and Program Director at the University of Florida, husband to Pam and father to Andy, has died.

Karl had suffered from a heart condition for which he took medication and unfortunately for us all, his heart gave up suddenly on Friday. It saddens us greatly to share this news here.

Karl was a guest recently on the Sunny 16 Podcast, and our friends Ade, Rachel, and Graeme have graciously allowed us to share that episode here with you in tribute to our friend Karl.

Beneath Karl's relaxed manner was a man of passion; a passion for his abstract art, a passion for ecology a passion for photography, a passion for his friends and a passion for his family.

To honor Karl's memory, the Havens family would be very grateful if people would support the Down Syndrome Association of Central Florida (DSACF).

Thank you for keeping Karl and his family in your thoughts.

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Just when Karl, Johnny, and Simon started to think they knew about lenses, Jason Lane comes along and makes them realize how little they actually know. Why does a Petzval swirl? Why do new high resolution lenses have a gazillion elements? Why is field of view is more important than focal length to a designer? These, and many more questions, are answered in this highly technical episode. Plus, the latest news on glass plate photography! ________

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LINKS

Photographic Lens Design

Photographic Dry Plates

Dioptrique Photographique

Zemax OpticStudio

College of Optical Sciences, The University of Arizona

Patents by Paul Rudolph

Prof. Jose Sasian: Tessar and Dagor Lenses

Oldlens.com

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This week on The Real CFNSLSP: the first confirmed kill in the War to Destroy All Podcasts. Simon's PC dies, Karl's router dies, Johnny goes full idiot (as usual), and EM's evil plan comes to fruition...

WARNING: This episode contains adult language & adult beverages. NSFW. ________

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The Hypersensitive Photographers Podcast

Emulsive

35mmc

The Manchurian Candidate

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This week, we present the final episode of the Classic Lenses Podcast. Our guest is The Man, The Myth, The Legend, from Fort Dodge, Iowa, USA: Mike Novak. We talk Twin Lens Reflex cameras, classic lenses, garden gnomes, Nickon/Naikon cameras, and how to photograph the perfect #NovakianLunch. An unexpected guest from a remote volcanic island stops by to join the chat as well. (Note: Karl is still MIA somewhere in the swamps of Florida...) ________

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MANIFESTO The Classic Film Negatives Sunny Lensless Studio Podcast

Dear listeners,

Film photography podcasts have exploded in number and we, the undisputed, established names in this niche have decided it is time to take action. The collective burden of generating fresh, creative content week-on-week in order to satiate the community lust for "all things analog" is not sustainable. We are putting our hands up to say yes, we have occasionally scraped the bottom of the barrel for content and should, no, must be better (getting EM and Hamish on should be red flags to you all by now).

In March 2019 we our leadership came together to debate how we could collaborate in the interests of our listenership and the wider film and analog photography community. After heated deliberation, we settled on a single and universally effective solution:

We should create a monopoly.

Starting April 2019, our individual podcasts will be merging into a single community mammoth: The Classic Film Negatives Sunny Lensless Studio Podcast (CFNSLSP). A single podcast with over a dozen hosts and a new episode nearly every single day of the week will be providing you with:

Camera reviews, classic lens reviews, industry insight, chatter, interviews and competitions ...to name a few. Understanding that photography is not everything, we will also have special focus events covering adult beverages, classic timepieces and lifestyle tips.

No longer will you need to create playlists for your analogue photography podcast needs. A single voice will be able to provide you with all you need to, or in fact, should know. In the words of Russell Nash, "there can be only one".

We would like to take this opportunity to thank our loyal listeners for their patronage and hope to see you join the CFNSLSP family.

Sincerely, The CFNSLSP Member Podcasts

• Classic Camera Revival  • Classic Lenses Podcast   • Lensless Podcast  • Large Format Photography Podcast  • Matt Loves Cameras  • Negative Positives Film Photo Podcast  • Soot and Whitewash  • Studio C-41 Podcast  • Sunny 16 Podcast  • Uncle Jonesy’s Cameras Podcast • The Hypersensitive Photographers Podcast ________

Mike Novak Flickr | Instagram

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KW Pilot Reflex TLR

Walzflex TLR

Voigtlander Superb TLR

Yashica TLRs

Zeiss Ikoflex TLRs

Koni Omegaflex N

Mamiya TLRs

Hasselblad 1600 ‘God of Thunder’

History of fast 35mm and small format film lenses (in German & English) Londinium Cameras

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This week, Johnny and Simon are joined by Nick Lyle, one half of the Homemade Camera Podcast. Nick, when he's not being a blacksmith and an artist, likes to make Frankencameras out of trashed camera parts so he knows a thing or two about adapting lenses where they don't normally belong.

Plus find out how to make a stitched super high resolution image using a medium format lens without moving the lens...

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Londinium Cameras Projection Lens Giveaway (See Blog Page)

Graham Young

Nikkormat SLRs

Mercury Works Cameras

Basic Optics and Optical Instruments: Revised Edition

Adventures With Pinhole and Home-Made Cameras by John Evans

Experimental Photography by Luca Bendandi & Marco Antonini

RAF Camera

Dan Goshen

Vizelex RhinoCam+

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Adventures With Pinhole and Home-Made Cameras: From Tin Cans to Precision Engineering

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After last week's disaster, we take some time out to catch up with the classic lens related things we've been getting up to recently, so as usual, many topics are covered. Johnny is forced to justify (again) why the Canon 50mm f/1.8 LTM is a "Budget" lens, a listeners email leads to a conversation about how different lenses work on different sensors, and Simon has his drink spiked shortly before being interviewed at The Photography Show by the Sunny 16 Podcast.

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Just like the song Tribute by Tenacious D, what you are about to hear is the greatest podcast ever. Tribute. Despite trying to blame Ethan Moses, Simon screwed up royally this week and the entire budget lens spectacular episode was even more incomprehensible than usual. Not to be put of by losing two hours of the best podcasting ever made, the dynamic trio set about recording it again in half the time and with more attitude...

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Bestiarum Vocabulum Lensuim Budgetum

17mm Tokina 17mm f3.5 RMC/SL Tamron SP 17mm f3.5 Adaptall-2

24-28mm Sigma Super Wide 24mm f2.8 II Olympus OM Zuiko Auto-W 24mm f2.8 Vivitar Close Focus 28mm f2.8 Sigma Mini Wide 28mm f2.8 II

35-37mm Pentax Super-Takumar 35mm f3.5 Jupiter-12 35mm f2.8 Chinon 35mm f2.8 KMZ MIR-1 37mm f2.8 Canon FL 35mm f3.5

40-45mm Konica AR 40mm f1.8 Minolta MD Rokkor-X 45mm f2

50-58mm Pentax Auto-Takumar 55mm f1.8 Jupiter 8 50mm f2 Zorki LTM Canon 50mm f1.8 LTM Nikkor-H.C 5cm f2 LTM / Nikon S Industar-26M 50mm f2.8 Zorki LTM Industar-61 50mm f2.8 Zorki LTM Helios-103 53mm f1.8 Kiev RF Canon FL 50mm f1.4 Industar 50-2 50mm f3.5 Pentacon 50mm f1.8

80-90mm Jupiter-9 85mm f2 LTM Leitz Elmar 9cm f4

100-105mm Spiratone TC 100mm f2.5 Preset T2 Soligor 105mm f2.8 Preset T2 Vivitar 105mm f2.8 T4 MC Kaleinar-5N 100mm f2.8 Super Takumar 105mm f2.8

135mm Raynox 135mm f2.8 Vivitar (Komine) 135mm f2.8 Jupiter-11 135mm f4 Zorki LTM Canon FL 135mm f3.5

180-200mm Soligor 180mm f3.5 Preset T2 Pentacon 200mm f4

300mm Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 300mm f4 Meyer-Optik Görlitz Orestegor / Pentacon 300mm f4

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Karl is "working" again this week, but fear not, Simon & Johnny are joined by Hong Kong classic lens photographer, Perry Ge. Get the lowdown on lens dealers that don't want to sell you anything and offer advice instead. A hugely varied podcast this week with discussions covering Dallmeyer, Frankenstax, Hasselblad Xpan, Fan Ho and snoring on a podcast...

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EPISODE LINKS Fan Ho’s Hong Kong Photography Yashica Y35 Hong Kong & Blade Runner Mathieu Stern’s Lomo T43 40mm f/4 lens Jizzfest David Chan Company Instant Options Instax Frankencameras Ilford XP2 in BW Chemistry is real! CineStill’s kick-ass C41 datasheet!! Homemade Camera Podcast Mythbusters PONF Camera Large Format Photography Podcast on Facebook Andrew Bartram, The Lensless Podcast Negative Positives Film Photo Podcast Sunny16 Podcast Dr. Emmet Brown, Podcast Tart Emulsive ________

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This week Lyndon of Londinium Cameras joins us to talk about classic lens repairs, none of that autofocus rubbish here! Lyndon gives out lots of advice which largely translates into don't try this at home, get an expert to do it instead. If that's not put you off, take a listen to Lyndon taking about stuck apertures, seized helicoids and the F word...

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Lyndon Booth Website | Twitter | Facebook

Basic Optical Construction Medium: Everything you need to know about camera lenses Lens Elements and Groups Testing for a Decentered Lens Lyndon Baines Johnson Barry Lyndon Barry White John Wilkes Booth

(Apologies to Lyndon for the links provided by Johnny Sisson)

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Never one to miss out on a free coffee, Karl makes a visit to see Volta Coffee, Tea, Chocolate and more owner, Anthony Rue. Steeped in photography history, Anthony takes us on a photographic journey including a look at a digital future from the past. Plus how Khloe Khardiasian uses his Instagram name...

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Anthony Rue Volta Coffee, Tea & Chocolate | Halcyon Dive Systems

Stephen Dowling Kosmo Foto | Kosmo Foto 120

Global Underwater Explorers

Minox Subminiture Cameras

Fred Ritchin, 'After Photography'

Joris Hermans, 'Photography Does Not Capture Reality... Ever!'

Erik van Straten, photograph with Olympus Pen FT 38mm f/1.8 lens

Cameraquest review of the Konica Auto-Reflex

Kardashian Kamera Kompany Reflex Camera

James Tocchio

Khloe Kardashian

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Dropping by this week is James Tocchio, founder of the excellent Casual Photophile blog and F Stop Cameras. James is a passionate user and reviewer of older cameras and classic lenses and it's certain that many listeners will have read many of his lens reviews. Plus lens rendering differences between film and digital and much more.

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James Tocchio Casual Photophile | F Stop Cameras | Instagram | Twitter

Casual Photophile Articles Carl Zeiss Jena Biotar 75mm | Carl Zeiss Planar 45mm |Tahbes | Rubinar 1000mmm | Film Tips

F Stop Cameras Film Of The Month Club

CineStillFilm Df96 Monobath Comparison

Raffaello Palandri

Homemade Camera Podcast

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Like to shoot film and digital? Tired to taking two cameras into a photo shoot? You need a PONF Camera, digital and film in one! This week we are joined by the founder of PONF Camera, Raffaello Palandri. PONF Camera is an open source camera project and one of its aims is to keep the technology of film cameras alive as it's only a matter of time before Karl Havens and Johnny Sisson destroy every old camera ever made... What’s more the PONF Camera will be perfect for using with classic lenses.

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Raffaello Palandri PONF Camera | Facebook | Instagram

Mamiya Magazine 35

Dora Goodman

Upcoming Photowalks MerseyMeetUp V4.0 | Sunny 16 & 35mmc Photography Show Mega Analogue Meetup

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Celebrating the awesomeness of the Raynox 135mm f/2.8! New acquisitions, how to price up rare lenses for eBay, Johnny's bubble problem, Vivitar buying tips, balsam separation again, and much more! BTW When Simon talks about an 85mm f/2.5 Vivitar, he means 90mm...

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Think that using flawed lenses to make interesting imaging is just a still photography thing? Think again! Matthew Duclos of Duclos Lenses explains how helped shape the trend towards using old lenses in Hollywood. Plus what makes for a good cine lens, find out about his "Heartbreaker" and oh, Mathew talks about his company's Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm f/0.7...

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Two for the price of one this week and Karl, Johnny and Simon almost get a week off as Mike Eckman and Bob Rotoloni chat Nikon history amongst themselves. As the President of the Nikon Historical Society, Bob knows a thing or two about Nikon, and he tells us about a better lens than the 105mm f/2.5... Plus we have a winner of our mystery lens competition!

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In a change to our scheduled podcast with Matthew Duclos who could not join us due to a last minute problem. So instead we used the opportunity to go through the email pile with lots of talk on Zuiko, lens coatings, lens adapters, Raynox, and fixing balsam separation. Plus WIN A LENS!

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This week we talk about 100/105mm (non macro) lenses with our guest, classic lens photographer, Bryan Nagar. The various Nikon 105/2.5 lenses get a good going over along with just about every other 100mm lens we can think of plus one that's best left forgotten...

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Karl manfully deals with Laryngitis and brings with him a modicum of Christmas cheer. Too many subjects to list covered this week, but they include best value classic lens systems, more wormy balls, black cameras and why old Minolta cameras are so often in great condition.

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This week we are joined by Ivo Michielsen, EdMika's man in Europe. We talk about the EDMIKA mount replacement system that allows for Canon FD lenses to work on Canon DSLR bodies without a corrective adapter. Plus lots of FD lens talk and an outtake I could not edit out...

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A bit of a "magazine show" this week, which is code for we thought we knew what we were going to talk about, then things changed and changed again, so we just rambled on about stuff. Possibly interesting stuff.

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Just what is a preset and aperture ring on a preset lens? Prepare to be confused. In this week's episode we catch up on listener emails covering what camera to buy, anamorphic lenses, redemption for the Flektogon, big bladders and no milk and cookies. Plus lens adapting news from Ken Rockwell and the Nikon Z6 & Z7.

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Eric Sluis is back for a second visit on the podcast, so we did the decent thing and sent him away on the crippled SS Tessar and marooned him on an island. Will the Zeiss obsessive take his Jena babies? Also in the show, hear about the Frisko Collectives use of classic lenses for commercial photography and testicle preservation....

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Simon discovers the harsh reality that there are times when a modern lens will do a better job than even a great classic lens. Also in the show, Karl justifies taking pictures of plant pots, and Johnny being Johnny...

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Another wide ranging chat on lenses and photography covering amongst other things, Carl Zeiss 35mm f/3.5 Planar, why Simon should now be able to take pictures just like Ansel Adams...

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Nothing goes from hot to not like a Karl Havens lens purchase, find out what's he's dropped like it's hot and hear some post purchase feedback from Johnny and Simon for his latest lens. Plus quick chats on the Sigma Super Wide, Micro Nikkor 55/2.8, Nikon 105mm f/2.5 (sonnar), LTM Nikon 50/2, Konica 40/1.8 Pancake and some large format action.

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Karl's back! To celebrate the return of Karl, we are joined by Ricardo Bayon, one of the founders of the successful Instagram Feed, #BestVintageLens. Lot's of talk about stuck aperture blades, Pentacon 50mm f/1.8, Fujinon 55mm f/2.2, bokeh and bubbles galore!

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No Karl this week (again), so Johnny and Simon (eventually) talk about lenses that we've bought because they look great! A Smörgåsbord of subjects ensue including; Jupiter-11, Lomography Petzval, Hasselblad Xpan, Konica Autoreflex, Rolleicord, Carl Zeiss 75mm f/1.5 Biotar, Concave Ultron, Vivitar (Tokina) 85mm f/1.8, Voigtlander Zoomar, Carl Zeiss Ultron, Asahi 58mm f/2.4 (again) and much more!

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Having had his first appearance wrecked through recording failure, Cheyenne is back to talk Bresson, Zeiss, Schneider, DKL Mount, Tomioka, Chinnon, Asahi and more!

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Part two of the Anil Mistry experience, last time Anil told us about his last photo book and street shooting, but we ran out of time before we could talk about lenses. This time, we've sent him off to a desert island and we finally get to hear about some of his favourite lenses.

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After last week's failed attempt to make Episode 36, Karl , Johnny and Simon are back to talk about our latest acquisitions and Simon schools Karl in decisive eBay purchasing...

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Em is back to talk about his Santa sack of happiness as his Emulsive Secret Santa event is now on. EM also passes on some of his wisdom to give Karl and Simon an idiots guide to shooting film, (Johnny already knows everything). This episode is "classic lenses light and film heavy".

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This week we're joined by the seemingly innocent Ade from the Sunny 16 Podcast. As a self admitted lens newbie, Ade grills Karl, Johnny and Simon about classic lenses and raises tensions at the same time!

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Karl, Johnny and Simon talk about the lenses they own, but rarely use (if ever). Listen in for handy justification tips on keeping little used lenses as well as a few procrastination strategies.

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We've cut our two week break short as we had to come back to talk about the new full frame Mirrorless cameras and Z mount just launched by Nikon. There's plenty of information out there on the internet about the new cameras, but in this week's episode we talk about what the new cameras mean to classic lenses users. Does Karl pre-order a Z7 live on the show?

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This week Karl Havens Johnny Sisson and Simon Forster talk to California based photographer, Dan Marinelli of The Half Frame Club. As well as half frame, Dan talks about his preference of Pentax Lenses over Nikkors as well as the effect open heart surgery has had on his GAS. Later in the show, Karl gets bitter about photographers that put too much effort into getting amazing photos...

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This week Karl Havens makes an heroic effort to be on the show despite not being in his adopted Florida. Johnny Sisson and Simon Forster reward Karl's dedication by asking him about all the things he's done wrong with week from wedding photography through to even more Canon LTM balsam separation.

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This week Karl Havens, Johnny Sisson and Simon Forster discuss whether there is such a thing as a lens to defeat Gear Acquisition Syndrome (GAS). The short answer is no but download the episode anyway, to hear what a bunch of weak willed people we really are...

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This week Karl Havens, Johnny Sisson and Simon Forster discuss the pros and cons of super fast 50=58mm standard lenses. Complete with the insights of listeners via a poll held last week as well as why Karl gets his dog to lick his lenses.

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Bond villain, former aristocrat and film camera obsessive, EM from Emulsive.org joins Karl, Johnny and Simon to tell us about adapting lenses we've never heard of to cameras we would never consider using for that purpose!

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This week Karl, Johnny and Simon talk about their experiences of buying lenses and cameras on eBay, good and bad, as well as give some advice on reading between the lines of eBay description. Plus the usual drivel and a conversation about film that may be too long for James Giordano...

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Episode 25 When Hamish Met Jimmy D For our 1/4 century special we have Hamish Gill and James Giordano with us, and unsurprisingly, the show turns into a Hamish & Jimmy love-in. It's a long and increasingly opinionated podcast with topics from bad photographers to "flâneuring" as well as the most seamless topic link you might ever hear.

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The inspirational Anil Mistry talks to Karl, Johnny and Simon about his street/street portraiture and experimental photography with classic lenses. This episode contains mild swearing.

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This week Karl Johnny and Simon discuss three interesting threads from the Facebook group, Photography with Classic Lenses; What sensor size do the members use? Do you use classic lenses for the experience rather than image quality? Does the podcast do too much analogue talk? Karl tells us about his latest Nikkors and Minolta 35-70mm f/3.5 Zoom.

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Episode 22 of the Classic Lenses Podcast Dutch, Belgium based documentary photographer, Eric Sluis talks to Karl Johnny and Simon about using classic lenses for paid work as well as sharing some of his extensive knowledge of wartime Carl Zeiss Jena lenses including LTM39 versions of Contax bayonet lenses. Also worth noting, Karl & Johnny are still being influenced by Hamish Gill's appearance on the show and are continuing to get bleeped out...

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Pro glamour photographer, James Giordano returns with his clicking microphone to give us a masterclass in artificial light photography as well as telling us about flash equipment "for the ignorant..."

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This week we've been given questions galore by our listeners, so we plough our way through them as best we can before moving on to our travel lens picks.

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This week we are celebrating the 5th anniversary of 35mmc.com with Hamish Gill. Hamish manages to rant a little without swearing, although the same could not be said about Johnny and Karl... So many subjects covered, we hope you enjoy the show as much as we did making it.

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This week we are answering a few frequently asked questions and seeing that Karl Havens cannot be with us this week, we are joined by Ήμων Παπαδανιήλ, better known as Imon (an admin) from the Photography With Classic Lenses Facebook group. Main Questions; M39 lenses; what's the difference? Leica/Zenit/Paxette/enlarger etc Lenses with the same optics, but different brands Tomiolka/Prakticar/Minolta/Leica/Vivitar/Tokina/Ricoh/Cosina etc What's the best budget classic lens to start off with?

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A history of the Soviet optical industry and debunking Soviet lens myths with the renowned collector, Vladislav Kern. Among other topics, Vlad covers how and why the USSR started to produce optics, the Soviet "acquisition" of the Carl Zeiss factory at Jena, a potted history of the Helios 44 including the "illegal" Helios 44-3 and the importance of bacon fat...

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This week, Karl Havens, Johnny Sisson talk about the lenses they're currently using most frequently and Simon Forster talks about a quick and dirty comparison test with a Zeiss 50/1.5 Opton Sonnar, two Jupiter-3 lenses including an early version and a new 7Artisans 50mm f/1.1.

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This week, Karl Havens, Johnny Sisson and Simon Forster are joined by Indiana based reviewer of old camera equipment, and admin of the huge Facebook group, Vintage Camera Collectors, Mike Eckman.

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This week, Karl Havens, Johnny Sisson and Simon Forster are joined by Netherlands based photographer, Svetlana Belinsky

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This week, Karl Havens, Johnny Sisson and Simon Forster talk about lenses in the 24-28mm range.

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In this episode Geza Singer, a prolific Hungarian born photographer started to shoot with a Lubitel 2 TLR in the early 1960's whilst in exile in Transylvania, tells Karl Havens, Johnny Sisson and Simon Forster how he managed to complete his formal photography education in London. Moving on to covering the US Vietnam protests with an Exakta Varex through to his current day work.

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In this episode, Karl Havens, Johnny Sisson and Simon Forster talk about a focal length that has fallen out of favour, the 135mm lens. Plenty of chat about Sonnars, Jupiter-11's and the "Bokeh Monster". Simon talks about his latest acquisition and Karl buys another lens during the podcast, giving listeners a rare opportunity of seeing a master lens buyer at work...

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Per is back for round two of defending the honour of Minolta, and this time he's carrying zooms with him... Plus the Voigtlander Zoomer and Helios-40

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In this episode, Karl Havens, Johnny Sisson and Simon Forster are joined from Sweden by Per Edman. Not only is Per an admin of the Facebook group, Photography with Classic Lenses, he's also a fully paid up member of the Minolta Mafia...

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In this episode, Karl Havens, Johnny Sisson and Simon Forster cover a multitude of topics including LTM39 vs SLR lenses, a few f/1.2 lenses and as well the least informative review of the new Fuji X-H1 (a name which Simon forgets already), you'll ever hear.

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Adult Entertainment Industry photographer, James Giordano joins us to talk about portrait shooting from the days of film through to digital and his hobby photography with classic lenses.

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This week we talk about the Jupiter-8 and Jupiter-9 and Karl proves his sophistication with the Jupiter-3. Plus a detailed explanation of the lens cleaning technique known as sand socking.

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The most popular lens ever? The Helios-44 and it's variants including fake 44M-7's. We also talk about focussing helicoids. Joining us for the discussion is Ήμων Παπαδανιήλ (Imon).

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Karl Havens, Johnny Sisson and Simon Forster talk about the camera bodies we use to shoot with classic and manual focus lenses.

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How not to say "Takumar" plus radiation, yellowing and new arrivals. Plus Topcon RE, Canon LTM 35/2.8 & Hasselblad 500C/M snippets.

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In this episode, Karl Havens, Johnny Sisson and Simon Forster talk about three lenses we like and why? The three lenses are the Helios-103, Voigtlander Super Wide Heliar 15mm f/4.5 and the Contax Yashica mount Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm f/1.4.

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Episode 1 of the Classic Lenses Podcast. Sorry about the dodgy audio...

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Classic Lenses Podcast: Recent Episodes

Classic Lenses Podcast

CLP145 #VoigtlanderHeliar #Raccoonz #Rangefinderz #Fuji55mm #aphantasia

CLP144 #vivitar

CLP143 #IsabelCurdes #DesertIslandLenses

CLP142 #LeicaMP #LeicaIIIa #LeicaIII #Voigtlander #35mmUltron #35mmPlanar #85mmPlanar #Contax #GAS

CLP141 #fullretard #Russarmr2 #Minolta24mmVFC

CLP140 #AnilMistry #CityByTheSea #UnusualEye

CLP139 #Sony #Canon #Mamiya #Nikon #Fujifilm

CLP138 #Vlad #VCC #sovietcameras #Zenit #Fed #Kalimar #TSVVS

CLP137 #wallaroo #rodenstock #mamiyac330 #rolleiflex

CLP136 #Pentax #Takumar #LeicaMP #Bokeh

CLP135 #Pentax #MSOptical #Konica #Borg #Freud #NegativePositivesPodcast #Gutterman

CLP134 #Biokar #BeautyCameraCo #FritoPie #ChopSuey #Klandiana #Cheeseheads #Frogs

CLP133 #Gutterman #ClassicPizzaPodcast #Pentax #LeicaR #Fiero #TransAm #NegativePositivesPodcast

CLP132 #TaylorHobsonAviar #Porst #Tokatev #Zodiak8B #NoNutNovember #Cooke #Mamiya #Biotar #FT2 #Porst #Pentax #helios33 #Kraken612

CLP131 #EthanMoses #Cameradactyl #Mongoose #VoigtlanderBessa

CLP130 #Leica #TamarkinCamera #TamarkinAuctions #LHSA #DanTamarkin

CLP129 #CLPPubQuiz #MikeEckman

CLP128

CLP127 #goatsecx #BellowsTakumar #KodakRetina #Curtagon #TeleArton #SchneiderLens #Mastadonosaurus

CLP126 #LondiniumCameras #CameraBugs #Cheddarman #CameraRepair

CLP125 #Kaleidoscope #PentaxK #SMCPentaxM #NikonS #Pentax645 #Hasselblad #YashicaTLR #Analbeads

CLP124 #Rolleicord #Rolleiflex #TLR

CLP123 #ContaxAX #Rolleicord #RogerWaters #RickyGervais #MarkZuckerbergPedo #35mmElmar #Xenar

CLP122 #Malort #Laphroig #Instax #YashicaYE #Kobalux28mm

CLP121 #NickLyle #BronicaS2 #Petri

CLP129 #Minolta #Rokkor #Vivitar #Summar #Icarex35 #Biotar #Viewfinders #Adapters

30 Great Reciprocity With Clyde Butcher

CLP119 #Voigtlander #FocusTabs #Topcon #Exakta #KodakMedalist #BronicaS2 #LFPP #LeicaM10Monochrom

CLP118 #GeorgeFloyd #BLM #CentralCamera #since1899 #wedofilm

CLP117 #Bokakkeh #CupboardLenses #Macro #PetriPenta #SchneiderKreuznach #Vivitar #MamiyaRZ67 #Distagon #ContaxYashica #CarlZeiss

CLP116 #ClassicLensesPubQuiz #AsianPears #Laika #Novakian #SadSilverMedalFace

CLP115 #Bokakkeh #Rolleiflex #Rollei35RF #ArsenalMir24H #Vivitar90mmVMC #Bokina #PetriOrikkor50mmf2 #KMZFT2 #M-Rokkor40mmf2 #Fomapan200 #CookePanchro #TheSpy #MoraineHillsStatePark #GreatEgret #SandhillCrane #Takoomah #BluebellWoods #RobbieJ #Wings

CLP114 #Bokakkeh #Bukakke #Buttcrack #WetOnWet #Polaroid195 #Tair33 #Kiev88 #ZeissOptonBiogon35mm #Rolleiflex #RolleiRF35

CLP113 #DesertIslandLenses #KarlHavens

CLP112 #Pentax67 #SebastiãoSalgado #Cinelux #ZeissBiogon28mm #EnnaLithagon35mm #EnnaTeleEnnalyt90mm #Elmarit90mm

CLP111 #FlatField #Covid19 #Malort #ChiyokoSuperRokkor5cm #Mir37mm #Flektogon35mm #SquareCircle #CircleOfConfusion #SigueSigueSputnik

CLP110 #Exakta #Topcon #Covid19 #Bleeping

CLP109 #HamishGill #NathanJohnson #pixllatr #NegativeLabPro #XChrome #Digitizing #Scanning

CLP108 #CasimirPulaskiDay #AdaptingLenses #Helicoids #Fastax

CLP107 #Exakta #Xenon #Rodenstock #SchneiderKreuznach #AgfaePhoto780 #AnilMistry

CLP106 #anilmistry #FujivsSony

CLP105 #coronavirus #snowpocalypse #ContaxG2 #LeicaM3 #CanonTLMlenses #fuckyoswag #hotdogstand

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CLP104 #FringePinching #FunnyRainbows #ContaxG2 #LeicaM3 #Coronavirus

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CLP103 #CAMERADACTYL #BRANCOPAN #HomemadeCameraPodcast

102 LINKS

CLP102 #Industar22 #NewPetzval58mm #9cmElmar #BokehFactory #CookeIvotalAnastigmat1inch #ContaxGConverted #Takumar83mm #ContactPrints #CharacteristicCurve #Sensitometry

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CLP101 #MediumFormat #6x6 #6x9 #6x4.5 #Rolleiflex

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CLP100 #JasonLane #LensDesign #Zemax #Pictoriographica

CLP99 #Lensesoftheyear #TheKarls #yearofthepano

CLP98 #CLPXMAS2019

CLP97 #AnthonyRue #VoltaCoffee #KarlHavens #VoigtlanderFolders #AudubonChristmasBirdCount #Enchilada #AudubonSociety #TheSunnies2019

CLP96 #Rollei35RF #HasselbladSWC #JosefKoudelka #BigMouthBillyBass

95 Desert Island Lenses with Cheyenne Morrison

CLP95 #CheyenneMorrison #CarlZeissJenaBiotar #SchneiderKreuznachXenar #CarlZeissJenaPrakticar

CLP94 #HongKong #ZoomLenses #NoGASNovember #IlfordSilverTicket

CLP #audiodiary #HongKong

CLP93 #BarbaraCrane #RobertClarkeDavis #CanonLTM #Nikkor #TopconRE #Topcor #FocusShift #HongKong #TaylorHobsonf2Anastigmat #75mmBiotar

CLP92 #JohnRBruning #Sylvie #Indestructible #CanonLTM

CLP91 #NoTinyScratch #TaylorHobsonAnastigmat2inch #CarlZeissJenaBiotar75mm #AutoTakumar35mm #MRokkor40mm #ContaxG2 #ExaktaVX #CanonL2

CLP90 #WSPivetta #CineLenses #DuclosLenses #SebastianSchipper #ChristopherNolan #QuintinTarantino #AlfredHitchcock #OrsonWelles #CookeOptics #EmulsiveSanta2019

CLP89 #Minox #Alcall35mmLTM #CanonT60 #ContaxT #PolaroidSpectra #RicohGRII #EmulsiveSecretSanta #JeffBridges

PentaxK #AeroEktar #BabySpeedBraphic #ChicagoWildlife #analogmike #CLP88

Haiku #GreameJago #Konica40mm #Zuiko #Sunny16 #StreetPhotography #aloha_bigmike

TruckerTorpedo #AmbiSilette #Pentax6X7 #ZeissIkon #WLF #AmadeoAdapter #YeenonAdapter #RobotCamera #Malort #Surströmming

CLP85 #KungFuHaze #PanoJag #LuxAsphOoftah #cheaplenschallenge #MinoltaMRokkorQF #Rollei35AF #JeffBridges #WideLux #KungFu #RedLightGreenLight #FlashLightTest #KenRockwell

CLP84 #Haiku #21mmColorSkopar #25mmSnapshotSkopar #Sunny16Podacst #Malort #PGHG #SuperFans #CoachDitka #SerengetiDennehy #SoxBearsHawksBulls #cheaplenschallenge

CLP83 #ScaleFocus #FixedLensClassics #Novakian #Rollei35S #ChicagoStyle #beefsausagecombolightdip

CLP82 #Horizon #LeicaM2 #Novakian

CLP81 #EdNoble #BokehPanorama #Infrared

CLP80 #WheresSimon #HeresPerry #Topcor35mm #Lowa15mm #CanonIVSB #TravelPhotography #BarbaraCrane

CLP79 #BestLenses #Topcor #FujiGL690 #ContaxRF #VintageFilmShooters

CLP78 #bestvintagelenses #frenemies #lensadapters

CLP77 #isabelcurdes #bokeh #ooftah #epiclensdicking

CLP76 #ContaxYashica