I’ve recently spent a chunk of time cleaning up and shooting with my growing collection of Helios 44 lenses. As a Canon shooter, one potentially nasty issue with these lenses […]
I’m one of those sad photographers who always uses a lens hood. I have one for every lens I own, and whenever I’m taking pictures the hood is always on […]
One of the goals in my earlier post about producing anamorphic style artefacts by modifying the aperture of a Pentacon 50mm lens was to create the horizontal flares that are characteristic for […]
The Background Back in the day, when films were being shot for projection on the wide screen, film makers couldn’t afford to waste any of the frame especially as they […]