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I enjoyed this episode.
It gave an insight into the podcasters as well as the lenses.
Quite a bit of discussion on the Sony as well.
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itsfozzy wrote:
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I enjoyed this episode.
It gave an insight into the podcasters as well as the lenses.
Quite a bit of discussion on the Sony as well.
Thanks fellas
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Glad you enjoyed it Tom, and thank you for the feedback!
We've moved away from the let's talk about specific lenses format and become more conversational, that's not to say that we won't do the deep dive stuff again, as there are many lenses we would like to discuss in some detail.
Listener figures keep growing so it's good to see that we are doing something vaguely interesting and that there's a very healthy interest in using manual focus lenses in this autofocus world.
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Episode 10 of the Classic Lenses Podcast
Minolta Revisited
In this episode, Karl Havens, Johnny Sisson and Simon Forster are again joined from Sweden by Per Edman. From the comments we received about last week's podcast, we felt there was some unfinished Minolta business, Per is back for more Rokkor action. Plus a bit of Voigtlander Zoomar and Helios-40.
No podcast next week as Simon is attending The Photography Show at the Birmingham (UK) National Exhibition Centre. Simon will be on the K&F Concept stand for all four days, so go and say hello to him! 17th - 20 March.
The podcast will return on 26 March.
iTunes may take may take a while to show this new episode
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/classic-lenses-podcast/id1333620068?mt=2
https://podcastplayer.io/podcast/simonforster/4x
https://www.facebook.com/groups/classiclenses/
http://forum.mflenses.com/the-classic-lenses-podcast-t78576.html
Links arising from the discussions;
Lensrentals
https://www.lensrentals.com/…/things-you-didnt-want-to-kno…/
Minolta MD 35-70mm f/3.5
https://phillipreeve.net/…/minolta-md-zoom-35-70mm-3-5-rev…/
Minolta MD 70-210mm f/4
http://vintagelensreviews.com/…/minolta-md-zoom-70-210-mm-…/
Petri Color Corrected Green-O-Matic
https://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php…
Helios-40
https://www.pentaxforums.com/userrevi…/helios-85mm-f1-5.html
Kilfitt lenses
https://www.cameraquest.com/kilzoom.htm
Comprehensive guide to Petri Green-O-Matic rangefinders
https://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php…
Eric Kaas Sluis
https://www.facebook.com/groups/492546657584325/
The Photography Show
https://www.photographyshow.com/
Credits:
Octoblues Royalty Free Music by Kevin Macleod
http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/
Karl Havens
https://www.flickr.com/photos/142719425@N05
Per Edman
https://www.flickr.com/photos/peredman
Karl Havens https://www.flickr.com/photos/142719425@N05
Johnny Sisson
https://www.instagram.com/sissonphotography/
Central Camera, Chicago https://centralcamera.com/
Simon Forster
http://stores.ebay.co.uk/itsfozzyphotography
https://www.flickr.com/photos/125323761@N07/
https://www.facebook.com/SimonForsterPhotographic/
https://www.instagram.com/simonpforster/
Logo by Johnny Sisson
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Great podcast! I have quite a collection of MF lenses myself, Takumars, SMC Pentax M and Canon FD. I still shoot film, but I may get a digital mirrorless camera for fun.
I used to work for the UK importer of Mamiya cameras as a service technician.
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itsfozzy wrote:
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Great podcast! I have quite a collection of MF lenses myself, Takumars, SMC Pentax M and Canon FD. I still shoot film, but I may get a digital mirrorless camera for fun.
I used to work for the UK importer of Mamiya cameras as a service technician. |
Thanks Ian!
I see this is your first post on MFLenses and you are from Stoke too!
Your surname would not be a part of the body would it...?
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Hi Simon, it would indeed!
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itsfozzy wrote:
I'm going to be on the K&F Concept Stand for all four days of The Photography Show at the NEC, are you going to make a visit?
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Afraid not sorry, as my main interests are vintage cameras and lenses. I do have a Pentax K7 though, but I enjoy film more.
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| Afraid not sorry, as my main interests are vintage cameras and lenses. I do have a Pentax K7 though, but I enjoy film more. |
Yes, it is largely very shiny and digital there. Still, I'll be trying to tempt people away from their autofocus lenses and hopefully selling loads of lens adapters...
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I enjoyed this podcast as well - thanks again for putting it together.
The conversational style is working well.
There was some discussion on the early f1.4 standard lenses and the reasons why they were long-ish ...... eg the many 55mm, the Hexanon 57mm, Minolta MC 58mm etc. instead of the later 50mm. I think it may have been the difficulty in creating a shorter lens design that was "fast" and still showed acceptable performance
I get the impression that a future episode may examine 135mm lenses.
If so, perhaps you might like to consider families of designs - eg the sonnars, Ernostars etc and the many lens manufacturers that used those designs.
Actually, sonnars alone would make a very interesting podcast
Anyhoo - keep up the good work, I look forward to the next episode
Tom Sheppard
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I've just listened to the Pentax Takumar podcast again.
SMC coatings, when they were first used, were the same as Zeiss coatings at that time. Zeiss asked Pentax to develop a new camera for them, but the electronics were unreliable so they went to another manufacturer and gave Pentax their coating technology as a form of compensation.
The SMC lenses were slightly different from the Super Takumar lenses, in that they had an aperture coupling lever for the ES and Spotmatic F. This allowed them to use open aperture metering.
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itsfozzy wrote:
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I enjoyed this podcast as well - thanks again for putting it together.
The conversational style is working well.
There was some discussion on the early f1.4 standard lenses and the reasons why they were long-ish ...... eg the many 55mm, the Hexanon 57mm, Minolta MC 58mm etc. instead of the later 50mm. I think it may have been the difficulty in creating a shorter lens design that was "fast" and still showed acceptable performance
I get the impression that a future episode may examine 135mm lenses.
If so, perhaps you might like to consider families of designs - eg the sonnars, Ernostars etc and the many lens manufacturers that used those designs.
Actually, sonnars alone would make a very interesting podcast
Anyhoo - keep up the good work, I look forward to the next episode
Tom Sheppard |
The Force is clearly strong in you Tom, as 135's will indeed be the next main topic. I'm not sure how it will work exactly, as it's the first time we've done a deep dive since moving to the conversational (make it up as we go along to be more accurate) format.
We sort of did a Sonnar episode with the "To Jupiter and no further", but I have no doubt that the S word will be mentioned seeing that the Jupiter-11 is my favourite 135...
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I've just listened to the Pentax Takumar podcast again.
SMC coatings, when they were first used, were the same as Zeiss coatings at that time. Zeiss asked Pentax to develop a new camera for them, but the electronics were unreliable so they went to another manufacturer and gave Pentax their coating technology as a form of compensation.
The SMC lenses were slightly different from the Super Takumar lenses, in that they had an aperture coupling lever for the ES and Spotmatic F. This allowed them to use open aperture metering. |
Well I have no idea with regard to your first point Ian, and and you've just taught me something about the ES and Spotmatic F!
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I enjoyed this podcast as well - thanks again for putting it together.
The conversational style is working well.
There was some discussion on the early f1.4 standard lenses and the reasons why they were long-ish ...... eg the many 55mm, the Hexanon 57mm, Minolta MC 58mm etc. instead of the later 50mm. I think it may have been the difficulty in creating a shorter lens design that was "fast" and still showed acceptable performance
I get the impression that a future episode may examine 135mm lenses.
If so, perhaps you might like to consider families of designs - eg the sonnars, Ernostars etc and the many lens manufacturers that used those designs.
Actually, sonnars alone would make a very interesting podcast
Anyhoo - keep up the good work, I look forward to the next episode
Tom Sheppard |
The Force is clearly strong in you Tom, as 135's will indeed be the next main topic. I'm not sure how it will work exactly, as it's the first time we've done a deep dive since moving to the conversational (make it up as we go along to be more accurate) format.
We sort of did a Sonnar episode with the "To Jupiter and no further", but I have no doubt that the S word will be mentioned seeing that the Jupiter-11 is my favourite 135... |
Yes, it was Karl's question about 135's on Classic Lenses FB that gave a clue.
I was aware of the sonnar/jupiter 11 discussion, but there were so many others that used the sonnar or similar design - Takumars, Nikkor, Canon FL etc
Anyway, it will be interesting to see where the conversation goes in the next episode.
Thanks again
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Thank you too Sjak, I was beginning to think that I was the only person still visiting this thread!
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PS - I also like the Pentacon 29 2.8 (I have the Meyer-version) |
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Oldhand wrote:
Another interesting podcast and thank you all once again for your contributions.
Several times during the discussion it was mentioned that 28mm lenses were cheaper to produce than 35mm lenses, and this was news to me.
I was wondering if anyone could elaborate on why this might be so, given that the challenges of successfully solving the optical problems of a wider versus not so wide lens seem to intuitively indicate that 35mm would pose fewer problems.
Thanks again for your input fellas.
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itsfozzy wrote:
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Another interesting podcast and thank you all once again for your contributions.
Several times during the discussion it was mentioned that 28mm lenses were cheaper to produce than 35mm lenses, and this was news to me.
I was wondering if anyone could elaborate on why this might be so, given that the challenges of successfully solving the optical problems of a wider versus not so wide lens seem to intuitively indicate that 35mm would pose fewer problems.
Thanks again for your input fellas.
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I have to admit, that came as a surprise to me too. I'll ask Johnny to back up his claim!
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Thank you too Sjak, I was beginning to think that I was the only person still visiting this thread! |
No, there are some of us lurking, too... I've found these podcasts fascinating, though I'm still a few behind, and have tweeted and posted about them elsewhere. Keep up the good work.
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Thank you too Sjak, I was beginning to think that I was the only person still visiting this thread! |
No, there are some of us lurking, too... I've found these podcasts fascinating, though I'm still a few behind, and have tweeted and posted about them elsewhere. Keep up the good work.
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