M42 Lenses

Leykers was established in 1999. They do coffee; food; passion. It says so on their website so it must be true. I have sampled the coffee and the food; they were OK. So far I have not had the passion. Canon EOS 30D + Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm f/2.8 lens.

Canon EOS 30D + Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm f/2.8 lens.

Canon EOS 30D + Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm f/2.8 lens.

'Developers have coordinated and submitted a planning application proposing a scheme of part conversion, demolition and new build for 30 No. apartments, which overlook the Town Park. The proposals also include storage and landscaping works.' Canon EOS 30D + Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm f/2.8 lens.

Canon EOS 30D + Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm f/2.8 lens.

In the original there were bricks in view, and on reflection I concluded that they were extraneous to the impact of the composition. Canon EOS 30D + Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm f/2.8 lens.

Canon EOS 30D + Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm f/2.8 lens.

I used a Canon EOS 30D with a Pentacon 50mm f/1.8 lens mounted via an EOS - M42 adapter. The lens came with a Praktica MTL5 camera and the two cost me £12.50. The Pentacon f/1.8 50mm is the last version of the Meyer-Optik "Oreston" f/1.8 50mm. It performs better than I had remembered, notwithstanding that using it on the EOS 30D was hopeless for metering the light and I fell back on the "Sunny 16" rule. I was also glad to have Lightroom in which to edit the original RAW image.

I used a Canon EOS 30D with a Pentacon 50mm f/1.8 lens mounted via an EOS - M42 adapter. The lens came with a Praktica MTL5 camera and the two cost me £12.50. The Pentacon f/1.8 50mm is the last version of the Meyer-Optik "Oreston" f/1.8 50mm. It performs better than I had remembered, notwithstanding that using it on the EOS 30D was hopeless for metering the light and I fell back on the "Sunny 16" rule. I was also glad to have Lightroom in which to edit the original RAW image.

I used a Canon EOS 30D with a Pentacon 50mm f/1.8 lens mounted via an EOS - M42 adapter. The lens came with a Praktica MTL5 camera and the two cost me £12.50. The Pentacon f/1.8 50mm is the last version of the Meyer-Optik "Oreston" f/1.8 50mm. It performs better than I had remembered, notwithstanding that using it on the EOS D30 was hopeless for metering the light and I fell back on the 'Sunny 16' rule. I was also glad to have Lightroom in which to edit the original RAW image.

I used a Canon EOS 30D with a Pentacon 50mm f/1.8 lens mounted via an EOS - M42 adapter. The lens came with a Praktica MTL5 camera and the two cost me £12.50. The Pentacon f/1.8 50mm is the last version of the Meyer-Optik "Oreston" f/1.8 50mm. It performs better than I had remembered, notwithstanding that using it on the EOS 30D was hopeless for metering the light and I fell back on the "Sunny 16" rule. I was also glad to have Lightroom in which to edit the original RAW image.

Photographed with an old M42 screw lens coupled via an adapter to a Canon digital SLR camera. The subject is a camera bag badged 'Miranda' which was an ebay win in 2012 costing £11 and contained a Nikon FG-20 camera, a Vivitar 28mm f/2.8 lens and a Soligor 80-200mm zoom lens. A lucky day for Limbo. In the early 1980s, the British electrical and photographic retailer Dixons acquired the rights to the Miranda brand and used it on a range of photographic equipment.

The one with the bus ticket doing duty as a bookmark. This was definitely photographed with an old M42 lens on a Canon EOS 30D. I was using three old lenses and so whilst I cannot be certain, I am almost sure that the Soligor C/D Wide-Auto f/2.8 28mm (made by Sun in 1980) was on the Canon in this instance, along with a Minolta Close-Up Lens No.1 in the filter mount.

Chinon 55mm f/1.4 on a Canon EOS 30D.

Photographed with a Chinon 55mm f/1.4 lens mounted on a Canon EOS 30D via an EOS-M42 adapter.

Although the lens mount of the Fujinon 55mm f/2.2 is the venerable M42 screw thread, closing down the aperture is a function which involves the cooperation of a companion camera, in this case a Fujica ST605 that I bought on eBay (complete with the lens) for £5. Using the lens on a Canon EOS digital camera via an adapter means using it at its widest aperture only. This photograph was about the best I could manage and if it looks half-way decent, much of the credit belongs to Lightroom. The lens is not multi-coated because Fuji economised on the specification of this camera/lens combination, aiming it at the budget-conscious. Thus the budget-conscious were deprived of contrast in their pictures. Even a lens hood doesn't make much difference.

Fujinon 55mm f/2.2 lens on a Canon EOS 30D.

Canon EOS 30D + Fujinon 55mm f/2.2 lens.