Lovely video! I really like the premise and your choice of photographer. I met James Ravilious in the 1990s. He was kind enough to share his time and experience and to invite to his home, for a lecture/discussion/tea and very pleasant afternoon, a group of photographers from the now long defunct Exeter Darkroom, one of whose members did his printing for the Beaford Archive as he had developed allergies to some of the chemicals used. He was really nice and talked about documenting life on the moors and also a little about the kit he used. He really did like his ancient Hektor 28mm F6.3 despite its vignetting, softness and propensity to flare! I thought of that immediately you mentioned how so many of his images have the sun just obscured a little. I spent a lot of hours in the darkroom struggling with my own printing while alongside was Bryony expertly producing these beautiful prints for James Ravilious and the Beaford Archive.
Everything element in this concept is great. Some biography, some technique, some gear, some DIY, some photography and all kinds of awesome. Looking forward to the next one.
The combination of the calm presentation, the background talk and the recreation of historical setups is just wonderful. I immediately clicked on your video when it appeared in my subscriptions. And great pictures, too!
Went to the exhibition in The National Theatre gallery around 2010. Absulutely amazing.😊 I really liked the 'voice overs' of the locals who pointed out that he was a pain in the neck sticking his lens where it shouldn't have been! A valuable collection of a life already gone.
This is exactly what photography is all about _____ the joy of it. Many of us, I believe, went back in time with the reproduction and use of the old legendary photo gear while keeping your fresh vision of how difficult it was to compose and take a shot. Magic, man, you did magic! Thanks for sharing.
I would watch 1000 of these. Learned a new photographer to research, and a bunch of fun, interesting lorries camera and lens things along the way. Truly my favorite thing on TH-cam. I'm already excited for the next one.
Your videos have really inspired me to buy more cameras. A few months back a roommate stole all my old gear so I kinda lost my spark to be a photographer. Then I saw your video on buying gear from a movie and I was like “ I wanna do that and also be my own photographer” so thanks man truly.
Thank you so much for the video. I originate from North Devon and worked on a farm as a youngster. I was not aware of this work and am absolutely blown over … I love the back to basics approach with the old lenses .. Keep up the great work .. 👍
Delighted that you have produced this, Ravilious is an old favourite and I happen to know his bit of Devon a little. Please do look at a part 2 as there was a lot of skill there, but be careful of the chemicals...
Great video - I’m a big fan of James Ravilious. Only discovered him after seeing an exhibition of his Dads work at Dulwich. I contacted his widow and got a lovely reply.
Good job young Mr Bayliss! You are a dedicated man of photographic obsessions.Was aware of Eric Ravilious’s aesthetic from my time in East Sussex wandering the South Downs. Last year during travels with my youngest daughter to Vienna. T’was fascinated with old black and white & sepia photographs for sale in the pop up street markets there. Mostly portraits some from studios, others outdoors or in photo booths. The photographic equipment used may still exist in private collections and museums. Thank you for illuminating James Ravilious.
Brilliant video! I loved learning about Ravilious' ingenuity with his DIY modifications and your subsequent recreation of it. Your channel is truly a hidden photographic gem-keep up the great work. :)
Would watch entire seasons of this kind of content-- but obviously I know not to expect that with how much time/effort and resources and pure intellectual curiosity which went into this as well as the Rear Window video -- excellent work!
Good job! Looking forward to part 2. The lens found plenty of detail for you. His shadows appeared to have a bit more snap than yours. I would have enjoyed your views on whether a better solution could be made with the hood.
Very cool! Love the V&A and the RPS collection. There is an amazing amount of unique processes and techniques developed by various RPS members that never made it past an experiment or two. Really enjoy the concept of recreating camera setups from the past. Keep it up!
That is awesome that you put that much effort into chasing something you enjoy. Great work. It is fun to dive deep and find methods and nuances that many will miss. Keep up the fun work.
Nicely done. Thanks for bringing James Ravilious to my attention. Your video is altogether interesting, inspiring and informative. Good luck from Victoria, BC.
Interesting exercise, I too have often become fascinated with the setups of great photographers, but from my research and experience the skill and vision usually plays a much more important role in their success.
This is great! I made a similarly Ravilious-inspired mask for a lens hood to tackle a flaring Summicron on my M11 a few months ago. It works really well. But it's nothing like as elaborate as your full Ravilious set-up. Very impressive.
I love the way old school photographers weren't afraid to modify their gear. Ive been masking off me Skylight filters with masking tape for years, I guess without thinking. The reason was simple, Collapsible rubber filters don't last long and often as not I just forgot them. Because it's the skylight filter I mask, I can still use all my regular B&W filters. Simple and cheap.
whats better than DIY camera projects? Historical DIY camera projects. that "floating" masked lens hood is quite ingenious lol. nice calming camera gear video.
I watched this when it came out, then have seen it posted many times in a few different photography discord servers, and really hope you have the opportunity to do more like this.
Wonderful video. I didn’t know of James Ravilious and very much appreciate the work and technique, which you explained and duplicated very well. A proper lens hood is under appreciated, and this goes the extra mile, especially with an uncoated lens. The large and deep rectangular ‘barn doors’ SOOPD hood for the Leitz 5cm Summitar was as good as it gets I thought. This has given me thought, and I’m going to now work on a modified 13352 polarizer hood with a mask and see how the results are. Thanks!
One area where SLR cameras have the advantage, as you can see precisely where the sun begins to flare the frame. In cinematography flags are used to eliminate the sun, and a similar item can be constructed from wire and a disc of card, and attached to the hot shoe.
A really good video and loved this approach and techniques you tried, a part 2 on the development aspects would I feel be complementary Thank you and don’t stop
So cool! I have made Lens Masks before for double exposures and your way fixes it wayyy better to the camera. I was thinking about 3d printing some that you can just stick into the filter thread though.
I recently watched the 1929 Movie "Man with a Movie Camera" by Dziga Vertov and immediately thought of you, since the Camera plays such an important role in the film. I know that it's probably not possible to recreate this camera (too old/too rare?), but I would love to see a video on it, even if it is just on a hypothetical level. The only part of the camera I did find was the lens (as it was prominently featured multiple times during the movie). It goes for around 2500€. Love your videos, please continue doing what you're doing!
i understand James had occasion to french flag some of the more extreme atl shots, if so, he had this down to a fine art, wonderful video, thank you for reminding us of this superb artist, so sad he left us so relatively young...
@@baylissprojects Paul O’Sullivan, at MS Hobbies, should be of assistance to you. If you use a fairly slow film, the resulting images can be exceptional.
This is a great, entertaining, piece of research following the Rear Window Exakta project. It's good to see videos which bring together the art and technology sides of photography. It's also good to see the magic of silver-based photography and its unique way of recording reality.
I'm very fascinated by Robert Capa, war photographer with an insane story. Would love to know about his techniques, cameras and lenses from you! Keep up the great videos. Love your work!
Nice work. Never heard of this guy before. Taking tens of thousands of pictures in a small village really puts some perspective into people complaining about nothing to photograph around them. I would have thought the 90mm shade even without the mask would vignette on a 50mm lens, but looks like the shades are made pretty conservatively.
Very nice video about a charming, eccentric and very talented photographer. I have seen reasonably large prints of Ravilious’s work (and even own one), and one of the things that struck me was how, although they were relatively low contrast, they were very sharp. I can’t see your originals, but on screen they seem far less sharp. I think Ravilious must have spent some time getting very good copies of these old lenses.
Such a nice video. Ive never heard of this gentleman before but i love those photos he too for sure and his camera and how he modified and used various older parts to make something truly different from what was used at his time. Although im brand new to photography i think i want to do a similar setup with one of those cheap soviet Fed 2 cameras to see how it might go. Also as others said id love a part two, maybe with various other types of film like color or some shifting films like what lomography makes would be fun.
beautiful! are your shots scans of the negative? It seems like james' photos were scans of the print which smoothes the grain a bit more - hp5 i find can look much more grainy when scanned directly
Thanks! Yes scans of the negatives - ah that's very interesting, I'll have to try making some prints in the darkroom and see what difference that makes.
Excellent and informative video. Rekindled my interest in the work of Ravilious, and I immediately ordered a copy of his biography. Hopefully you do get to recreate some of his darkroom techniques (as alluded to in the comments below). Great work.
Oh man, your video randomly popped up and now I finally remember the name of this photographer. I lost his book in a move, now I can try and find another copy :) (edit.. not after seeing the prices.. damn)
Interesting exercise, thanks. I too have been down the modified lens hood path, pretty much exactly as you did. However, I found that it caused vignetting at the larger apertures (I was using an f/2 Summicron). This was not apparent to the eye at the film gate. What Ravilious did clearly worked for him, as his photos are self-evidently beautiful. However, to me the logic seems a bit confused. He wanted to shoot into the sun, but he used un-coated lenses which are more flare-prone. So then he had to modify his lens hood to reduce the risk of flare. The uncoated lenses had lower contrast because of internal flare, which means the shadows would have less detail. He must have increased exposure to achieve the shadow detail his prints show; but then he also used a pale yellow filter, which would have increased contrast, making shadows darker and thus losing shadow detail, while also requiring a further small increase in exposure. The only thing that really makes sense to me is his use of a compensating developer, which would have made highlights of his contre-jour shots more manageable when printing.
Very nice video. I have my grandfather’s Contax and Zeiss 50mm. I have run a few rolls of film through the camera, but the shutter is limited to 1/250 due to mechanical issues. I looked for an adapter to my Canon cameras for the lens, but that looks to not be possible. So I purchased a 50mm Zeiss 1.4 and use my 5DM3s. I have enjoyed the experience of the manual focus and have captured some excellent photos in Prague and Lucerne.
Really nice video, and beautiful shots. One thing I'd note, it looks like the cheap (Chinese made) Screw mount to M mount adapter that you used has threads that are not in proper orientation to the M side of the mount, hence I your infinity stop is in the wrong place, and your focus movement ends up going up into the area of the viewfinder window. A genuine Leica or Voigtlander adapter will not have that problem.
I had a few cameras and lenses repaired by Malcolm Taylor, the Leica repair specialist who used to live and work near Aymestrey in Herefordshire. He'd worked on some of James's cameras and lenses, and had sold him a Leitz 2.8cm f6.3 Hektor. He happened to have one he'd just serviced, so I bought it. It doesn't get used much, but it does have a unique quality. Whilst I do have an M3 and an M6, I tended to use it on an Epson R-D1, and more recently on some Fujifilm X-Pros. Flare is very bad and at least this can be seen when using the Fuji cameras.
Great video, I really appreciate the investigation and bit of arts and crafts. I would warn to avoid using superglue near optical surfaces - the outgassing of curing superglue can deposit a coating on the glass.
Lovely video, and what a wonderful photographer Ravilious was. I must admit to having a soft spot for this sort of pastoral photography. Speaking of, what would the name be of the piece of music you played? It sounds vaguely Holst to my ears.
Inspiring video! I'm into legacy cameras and own and use a 1909 (patent date) brownie box camera the Disney family originally purchased back in 1911. I use it to photograph historical Disney locations across the USA. However, my latest project is adapting a Vest Pocket Kodak lens on to an M42 screw mount 35mm camera. It's a Sears branded Ricoh TLS along with closeup billows.The Vest Pocket Kodak or VPK was the camera that recorded World War I, was the first camera on Mt. Everest, the first camera to the South Pole, and was carried on the Spirit of St Louis across the Atlantic with Charles Lindbergh. It was also carried on the Titanic by Father Francis Browne! The VPK or “the soldier’s camera” as Kodak called it (in advertising), was manufactured between 1912 to 1926 with many variations through the years. The orphaned lens I used and adapted dates circa 1915. I used an m42 plastic body cap that I drilled to mount the little lens. The closeup billows allows focusing from infinity down to about 6 inches with f stops between f7.7 and f32. I leave the lens on “T” so it stays open and let the shutter and meter on my Sears camera do the work. I have tiny Kodak filters and a lens hood /filter retainer that fits the lens with minimal modification (series IV). The original VPK camera used 127 size film so I get full coverage of the full frame 35mm with no vignetting. The results have been stunning so far with the little uncoated lens while using various filters and film stocks. The photos have that uncoated "glow" you talked about. Look up photobug1971 to find me if you would like to see some of my wacky projects.
Thanks for sharing! I’m not as good as you at building stuff but I can get a similar result with a Leitz 135mm lens hood. I was testing lenses for YT so show lenses with and without hoods and gave you a shout out. Cheers
These are magnificant photographs and I truly enjoyed the whole video. Yet how do you manage to change the aperture of the lens for it's so deeply into the hood?
Lovely video! I really like the premise and your choice of photographer. I met James Ravilious in the 1990s. He was kind enough to share his time and experience and to invite to his home, for a lecture/discussion/tea and very pleasant afternoon, a group of photographers from the now long defunct Exeter Darkroom, one of whose members did his printing for the Beaford Archive as he had developed allergies to some of the chemicals used. He was really nice and talked about documenting life on the moors and also a little about the kit he used. He really did like his ancient Hektor 28mm F6.3 despite its vignetting, softness and propensity to flare! I thought of that immediately you mentioned how so many of his images have the sun just obscured a little. I spent a lot of hours in the darkroom struggling with my own printing while alongside was Bryony expertly producing these beautiful prints for James Ravilious and the Beaford Archive.
Thank you! And thanks for sharing, very interesting. Hopefully I can make a video on some of Ravilious' darkroom techniques sometime
Everything element in this concept is great. Some biography, some technique, some gear, some DIY, some photography and all kinds of awesome. Looking forward to the next one.
The combination of the calm presentation, the background talk and the recreation of historical setups is just wonderful. I immediately clicked on your video when it appeared in my subscriptions. And great pictures, too!
The pics turned out so well!! 🙌☀️ Very similar vibes! ✨ Was fun to see you make the homemade bits too 📷🔧 Part 2 pls
Thank you! 😮 Thanks for watching!
The colour footage of shooting the landscapes is beautiful, as well as the stills you shot. Great video, thanks.
Thank you. I truly enjoyed this one. And, I had not previously known Ravilious's work, so this vid was a double treat for me.
probably my favorite photography channel
great video dude
Thank you! Thanks for watching!
Wow, impressive work. This is the most original camera/photography TH-cam video I have seen thus far this year.
Went to the exhibition in The National Theatre gallery around 2010. Absulutely amazing.😊 I really liked the 'voice overs' of the locals who pointed out that he was a pain in the neck sticking his lens where it shouldn't have been! A valuable collection of a life already gone.
This is exactly what photography is all about _____ the joy of it. Many of us, I believe, went back in time with the reproduction and use of the old legendary photo gear while keeping your fresh vision of how difficult it was to compose and take a shot. Magic, man, you did magic! Thanks for sharing.
That was a glorious video-what a pleasing project and your photos were stunning. Thank you!
One of your best videos yet 📷 Keep up the good work
Thank you! Will do!
I would watch 1000 of these. Learned a new photographer to research, and a bunch of fun, interesting lorries camera and lens things along the way. Truly my favorite thing on TH-cam. I'm already excited for the next one.
Your videos have really inspired me to buy more cameras. A few months back a roommate stole all my old gear so I kinda lost my spark to be a photographer. Then I saw your video on buying gear from a movie and I was like “ I wanna do that and also be my own photographer” so thanks man truly.
Thank you so much for the video. I originate from North Devon and worked on a farm as a youngster. I was not aware of this work and am absolutely blown over … I love the back to basics approach with the old lenses ..
Keep up the great work .. 👍
Interesting project and video!
Really love this Channel, I hope you keep going!
Well done, Mr. Bayliss. You followed your passion and created a wonderful video that many people are enjoying.
Just like a time machine. . . Thank you.
Incredible video! Great work, truly. So glad the algorithms showed me the way to your channel 🙏
Delighted that you have produced this, Ravilious is an old favourite and I happen to know his bit of Devon a little. Please do look at a part 2 as there was a lot of skill there, but be careful of the chemicals...
Great video - I’m a big fan of James Ravilious. Only discovered him after seeing an exhibition of his Dads work at Dulwich. I contacted his widow and got a lovely reply.
Good job young Mr Bayliss! You are a dedicated man of photographic obsessions.Was aware of Eric Ravilious’s aesthetic from my time in East Sussex wandering the South Downs. Last year during travels with my youngest daughter to Vienna. T’was fascinated with old black and white & sepia photographs for sale in the pop up street markets there. Mostly portraits some from studios, others outdoors or in photo booths. The photographic equipment used may still exist in private collections and museums. Thank you for illuminating James Ravilious.
Brilliant video! I loved learning about Ravilious' ingenuity with his DIY modifications and your subsequent recreation of it. Your channel is truly a hidden photographic gem-keep up the great work. :)
Would watch entire seasons of this kind of content-- but obviously I know not to expect that with how much time/effort and resources and pure intellectual curiosity which went into this as well as the Rear Window video -- excellent work!
Respect to James and his father Eric who was lost in Iceland during WW2 while a war artist
Fantastic work you've done here with both the setup and your photos.
This is a winner, love the photos you got too! Can't wait to see more
Really enjoyed this video a refreshing change from the usual TH-cam offerings.
Love this, such a complete and unique way to appreciate work you admire.
Can't wait to see what else you do, cheers
Good job! Looking forward to part 2. The lens found plenty of detail for you. His shadows appeared to have a bit more snap than yours. I would have enjoyed your views on whether a better solution could be made with the hood.
Very cool! Love the V&A and the RPS collection. There is an amazing amount of unique processes and techniques developed by various RPS members that never made it past an experiment or two. Really enjoy the concept of recreating camera setups from the past. Keep it up!
That is awesome that you put that much effort into chasing something you enjoy. Great work. It is fun to dive deep and find methods and nuances that many will miss. Keep up the fun work.
Interesting project. Great work replicating that camera setup quite faithfully to the original.
Photos turned out well.
Just stumbled across your video. I must say your ingenuity is astounding and inspiring.
Nicely done. Thanks for bringing James Ravilious to my attention. Your video is altogether interesting, inspiring and informative. Good luck from Victoria, BC.
Interesting exercise, I too have often become fascinated with the setups of great photographers, but from my research and experience the skill and vision usually plays a much more important role in their success.
I became interested in photography after watching the movie “Blow-Up” in 1966. I immediately bought an Olympus Trip 35, my first camera.
Yes! Great concept.
Wonderful kit recreation & photos.
Great stuff - well done!
You just naild it! Great! (James Ravilious is one of my personal heroes!)
This is great! I made a similarly Ravilious-inspired mask for a lens hood to tackle a flaring Summicron on my M11 a few months ago. It works really well. But it's nothing like as elaborate as your full Ravilious set-up. Very impressive.
I love the way old school photographers weren't afraid to modify their gear. Ive been masking off me Skylight filters with masking tape for years, I guess without thinking. The reason was simple, Collapsible rubber filters don't last long and often as not I just forgot them. Because it's the skylight filter I mask, I can still use all my regular B&W filters. Simple and cheap.
whats better than DIY camera projects? Historical DIY camera projects. that "floating" masked lens hood is quite ingenious lol. nice calming camera gear video.
I watched this when it came out, then have seen it posted many times in a few different photography discord servers, and really hope you have the opportunity to do more like this.
Thank you! Nice to know people are sharing it
Just lovely!
Brilliant and intriguing!
Great video and amazing photos!
Wonderful video. I didn’t know of James Ravilious and very much appreciate the work and technique, which you explained and duplicated very well. A proper lens hood is under appreciated, and this goes the extra mile, especially with an uncoated lens. The large and deep rectangular ‘barn doors’ SOOPD hood for the Leitz 5cm Summitar was as good as it gets I thought. This has given me thought, and I’m going to now work on a modified 13352 polarizer hood with a mask and see how the results are. Thanks!
One area where SLR cameras have the advantage, as you can see precisely where the sun begins to flare the frame. In cinematography flags are used to eliminate the sun, and a similar item can be constructed from wire and a disc of card, and attached to the hot shoe.
A really good video and loved this approach and techniques you tried, a part 2 on the development aspects would I feel be complementary
Thank you and don’t stop
Beautiful photos of a time gone by, first came across his photography in the Exmoor Magazine, it’s a beautiful area
So cool! I have made Lens Masks before for double exposures and your way fixes it wayyy better to the camera. I was thinking about 3d printing some that you can just stick into the filter thread though.
You can always say that the flair was an artistic decision.LOL.
Nice job!
Very interesting and well done video! Thank you.
Great video. Please make more for other photographers. Keep them coming 😊
I recently watched the 1929 Movie "Man with a Movie Camera" by Dziga Vertov and immediately thought of you, since the Camera plays such an important role in the film. I know that it's probably not possible to recreate this camera (too old/too rare?), but I would love to see a video on it, even if it is just on a hypothetical level. The only part of the camera I did find was the lens (as it was prominently featured multiple times during the movie). It goes for around 2500€. Love your videos, please continue doing what you're doing!
i understand James had occasion to french flag some of the more extreme atl shots, if so, he had this down to a fine art, wonderful video, thank you for reminding us of this superb artist, so sad he left us so relatively young...
Exceptional video, as always. The Minox A and B both feature in quite a number of movies.
Minox video coming eventually
@@baylissprojects Paul O’Sullivan, at MS Hobbies, should be of assistance to you. If you use a fairly slow film, the resulting images can be exceptional.
This is a great, entertaining, piece of research following the Rear Window Exakta project. It's good to see videos which bring together the art and technology sides of photography. It's also good to see the magic of silver-based photography and its unique way of recording reality.
Interesting video. It was a lot of work, thanks!
Very interesting video! Thank you for sharing.
I really enjoyed this video.
Amazing video, thanks
Great video, looks like your channel is really taking off✈
Nice work! Enjoy Gustav Holst too!
I just subed... I find great your idea of recreating setups of great photographers AMAZING IDEA! Keep going strong
I'm very fascinated by Robert Capa, war photographer with an insane story.
Would love to know about his techniques, cameras and lenses from you!
Keep up the great videos. Love your work!
Nice work. Never heard of this guy before. Taking tens of thousands of pictures in a small village really puts some perspective into people complaining about nothing to photograph around them.
I would have thought the 90mm shade even without the mask would vignette on a 50mm lens, but looks like the shades are made pretty conservatively.
Well done. Very interesting.
Very nice video about a charming, eccentric and very talented photographer. I have seen reasonably large prints of Ravilious’s work (and even own one), and one of the things that struck me was how, although they were relatively low contrast, they were very sharp. I can’t see your originals, but on screen they seem far less sharp. I think Ravilious must have spent some time getting very good copies of these old lenses.
Was very enjoyable watching and now i feel like taking that old Elmar 50 3.5 for a spin...
That model 1 makes me drool
Such a nice video. Ive never heard of this gentleman before but i love those photos he too for sure and his camera and how he modified and used various older parts to make something truly different from what was used at his time.
Although im brand new to photography i think i want to do a similar setup with one of those cheap soviet Fed 2 cameras to see how it might go. Also as others said id love a part two, maybe with various other types of film like color or some shifting films like what lomography makes would be fun.
beautiful! are your shots scans of the negative? It seems like james' photos were scans of the print which smoothes the grain a bit more - hp5 i find can look much more grainy when scanned directly
Thanks! Yes scans of the negatives - ah that's very interesting, I'll have to try making some prints in the darkroom and see what difference that makes.
Not gonna lie, if i ever got my hands on a Rangefinder, i prob did the same set up. looks cool!
that was superb
Nice, enjoyed your video very much! Thank you!
Excellent video thanks
Excellent and informative video. Rekindled my interest in the work of Ravilious, and I immediately ordered a copy of his biography. Hopefully you do get to recreate some of his darkroom techniques (as alluded to in the comments below). Great work.
It helps to come from a fine artistic family.
great crafted. brilliant
Oh man, your video randomly popped up and now I finally remember the name of this photographer. I lost his book in a move, now I can try and find another copy :) (edit.. not after seeing the prices.. damn)
Interesting exercise, thanks. I too have been down the modified lens hood path, pretty much exactly as you did. However, I found that it caused vignetting at the larger apertures (I was using an f/2 Summicron). This was not apparent to the eye at the film gate.
What Ravilious did clearly worked for him, as his photos are self-evidently beautiful. However, to me the logic seems a bit confused. He wanted to shoot into the sun, but he used un-coated lenses which are more flare-prone. So then he had to modify his lens hood to reduce the risk of flare. The uncoated lenses had lower contrast because of internal flare, which means the shadows would have less detail. He must have increased exposure to achieve the shadow detail his prints show; but then he also used a pale yellow filter, which would have increased contrast, making shadows darker and thus losing shadow detail, while also requiring a further small increase in exposure. The only thing that really makes sense to me is his use of a compensating developer, which would have made highlights of his contre-jour shots more manageable when printing.
Very nice video. I have my grandfather’s Contax and Zeiss 50mm. I have run a few rolls of film through the camera, but the shutter is limited to 1/250 due to mechanical issues. I looked for an adapter to my Canon cameras for the lens, but that looks to not be possible. So I purchased a 50mm Zeiss 1.4 and use my 5DM3s. I have enjoyed the experience of the manual focus and have captured some excellent photos in Prague and Lucerne.
Really nice video, and beautiful shots. One thing I'd note, it looks like the cheap (Chinese made) Screw mount to M mount adapter that you used has threads that are not in proper orientation to the M side of the mount, hence I your infinity stop is in the wrong place, and your focus movement ends up going up into the area of the viewfinder window. A genuine Leica or Voigtlander adapter will not have that problem.
I had a few cameras and lenses repaired by Malcolm Taylor, the Leica repair specialist who used to live and work near Aymestrey in Herefordshire. He'd worked on some of James's cameras and lenses, and had sold him a Leitz 2.8cm f6.3 Hektor. He happened to have one he'd just serviced, so I bought it. It doesn't get used much, but it does have a unique quality. Whilst I do have an M3 and an M6, I tended to use it on an Epson R-D1, and more recently on some Fujifilm X-Pros. Flare is very bad and at least this can be seen when using the Fuji cameras.
Great video, I really appreciate the investigation and bit of arts and crafts. I would warn to avoid using superglue near optical surfaces - the outgassing of curing superglue can deposit a coating on the glass.
Thanks for the calm
Lovely video, and what a wonderful photographer Ravilious was. I must admit to having a soft spot for this sort of pastoral photography. Speaking of, what would the name be of the piece of music you played? It sounds vaguely Holst to my ears.
You're quite right - The Planets: Venus, the Bringer of Peace
Inspiring video! I'm into legacy cameras and own and use a 1909 (patent date) brownie box camera the Disney family originally purchased back in 1911. I use it to photograph historical Disney locations across the USA. However, my latest project is adapting a Vest Pocket Kodak lens on to an M42 screw mount 35mm camera. It's a Sears branded Ricoh TLS along with closeup billows.The Vest Pocket Kodak or VPK was the camera that recorded World War I, was the first camera on Mt. Everest, the first camera to the South Pole, and was carried on the Spirit of St Louis across the Atlantic with Charles Lindbergh. It was also carried on the Titanic by Father Francis Browne! The VPK or “the soldier’s camera” as Kodak called it (in advertising), was manufactured between 1912 to 1926 with many variations through the years. The orphaned lens I used and adapted dates circa 1915. I used an m42 plastic body cap that I drilled to mount the little lens. The closeup billows allows focusing from infinity down to about 6 inches with f stops between f7.7 and f32. I leave the lens on “T” so it stays open and let the shutter and meter on my Sears camera do the work. I have tiny Kodak filters and a lens hood /filter retainer that fits the lens with minimal modification (series IV). The original VPK camera used 127 size film so I get full coverage of the full frame 35mm with no vignetting. The results have been stunning so far with the little uncoated lens while using various filters and film stocks. The photos have that uncoated "glow" you talked about. Look up photobug1971 to find me if you would like to see some of my wacky projects.
Ah sounds very interesting, will take a look, thanks
i loves how james looks like saul goodman
cool project
Thanks for sharing! I’m not as good as you at building stuff but I can get a similar result with a Leitz 135mm lens hood. I was testing lenses for YT so show lenses with and without hoods and gave you a shout out. Cheers
These are magnificant photographs and I truly enjoyed the whole video. Yet how do you manage to change the aperture of the lens for it's so deeply into the hood?
Good stuff mate. Keep at it.
Thank you.
Loved this video, well done! I’m curious, why does the top of your camera have tape on it?
Well, I guess digging for vintage lenses isn't really a modern trend of the digital era.
Great video! Peter Lindbergh or Sergio Larrain are my suggestions.