Author Archives: Jouni Rinne
Developing the first black & white film
Last Monday I spent an interesting evening in the Tampere Camera Club‘s (Tampereen Kameraseura) film laboratory situated within the basement of the “Metso” library. In there I developed, for the first time without any outside help, a black and white … Continue reading
50mm Carl Zeiss Tessar
Couldn’t resist sharing a picture of this beauty: A Carl Zeiss Tessar 50mm f/2.8 lens with 8-blade aperture and Exakta mount, fitted to my Olympus PEN E-PL3 via an Exakta-m4/3 adapter.
Updates
I have been making some (long overdue) updates to the Museum and Gear-pages. More cameras, more accessories…
Testing Miranda lenses on a m4/3 Olympus (part 2)
Actually, the title is a bit misleading, because this time I’m testing Soligor lenses, although they all have either Miranda screw-mount or bayonet mounts. The weather today was overcast but quite warm for the season, so I did some walking-around … Continue reading
Miranda – Micro Four Thirds adapter review (part 1)
One of the interesting side-effects of the small register (flange distance to the film/sensor) of the mirrorless digital system cameras is the possibility to use almost any make and model of the older manual lenses with them, provided that the … Continue reading
