Ten dollars allowed me to add five new lenses to my camera bag. This simple adapter, something I failed to find the last time I looked several years ago has put a few of the tools I first learned photography with back in my hands. It has been roughly 25 years since I actually used any of these to take an image.<\/p>\n
In my college days, I spent some time running around with one of my dad’s old cameras and a couple of lenses, getting my first real taste of photography. I still have some prints from those days, but I all but gave up the pursuit in 1995. That’s a story for another day. For now, I just want to breathe in the old memories and start thinking about the future.<\/p>\n
This simple adapter will allow me to use these 50+ year old lenses with my five-year old camera in a whole new way. While I shoot in manual mode almost exclusively, it will still be a bit of a learning curve. It has been a long time since I was manually focusing every shot.\u00a0 I’ll need to bone up a bit on some of the “ancient hieroglyphs” on this equipment and figure out what certain switches actually do as well. Oh, this is going to be fun!<\/p>\n
It is relatively small things like this that can stimulate my creative side. The lenses themselves are not new to me but a simple adapter suddenly makes them spring to life! I cannot wait to explore the possibilities of a fish-eye lens again. I’ve never owned a 50mm prime and now I have a solid, tried and trued copy in the arsenal. A 135mm capable of macro work? Did I mention this was going to be fun?<\/p>\n
What small tool have you found lately that has inspired you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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