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              Piccolette Contessa-Nettel
              Piccolette Contessa-Nettel
              March 19, 2012
              Amy Hobbs

              [Vintage Gear] 93 Year-Old Lens Attached to a 5D

              Photographer/film-maker Jason Bognacki successfully attached a 93 year old camera to his Canon 5D.  It’s a Piccolette Contessa-Nettel (1919) folding camera.  Check out the results and see for yourself. The images are so much sharper than you might expect.  What do you think?

              Piccolette [Vintage Gear] 93 Year Old Lens Attached to a 5D
              Here are the results:

              IMG 3711 [Vintage Gear] 93 Year Old Lens Attached to a 5D
              At 100% crop:

              SET 01 100 CROP [Vintage Gear] 93 Year Old Lens Attached to a 5D
              A few more:

              FLARE [Vintage Gear] 93 Year Old Lens Attached to a 5D
               

              IMG 3910 [Vintage Gear] 93 Year Old Lens Attached to a 5D
               

              IMG 3791 [Vintage Gear] 93 Year Old Lens Attached to a 5D
              Via: Today’s Tomorrow/Jason Bognacki

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              From Amy:

              Thank you so much for reading! You can find me on Facebook or my website. Have a lovely day.

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              • PhotoR

                The chromatic aberration looks kinda rough on the 100% crop, but all in all it’s a nice look! 

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=687531541 Kris Armstead

                i wanna do this…. how?

              • http://www.facebook.com/nyajtimauteyaaj Nyaj Timautes Yaaj

                This is amazing!…it gives the right contrast, right grain…wow I want one now!

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1490299271 Dan Pasamonte

                Oh wow!!! Amazing!

              • http://thomaskirby.myopenid.com/ Thomas Kirby

                I like the flare. It’s hard to fake that.

              • http://www.facebook.com/people/Deon-van-Zyl/665091330 Deon van Zyl

                 UHMAZING

              • http://twitter.com/wixmymordsup Dustan Sept

                That is pretty amazing!! I can’t believe the clarity!!!

              • http://www.facebook.com/people/Caleb-Hamm/515440855 Caleb Hamm

                 That’s like saying your pores look really big when I zoom all the way in on your face.

              • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GT3JJFECR46SQ5RF4YLXKBM6QY Coby

                this is neat and all but it reminds me of somthing a yahoo contributer would right, something thats been done before and has little intreast other then a neat and then close window

              • PhotoR

                Not really, when I use a modern lens on my 5D and zoom in to 100% there is usually little to no CA. Older lenses lack the compensation for CA, whereas the pores look equally large whether I zoom in with an old lens or a new lens.

              • http://www.facebook.com/people/Caleb-Hamm/515440855 Caleb Hamm

                 It was a joke…

              • PhotoR

                apologies

              • http://www.facebook.com/people/Carlos-Zaya/759505417 Carlos Zaya

                Cool idea! Got some old vintage cameras laying around. I think I’ll try that! 

                //CZ
                http://www.zayaphotography.com

              • Sam Dickinson

                Just goes to show…. good glass is an investment :-)

              • http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Cary/749574123 John Cary

                This is magical 

              • http://www.facebook.com/people/Alex-Farrell/1497736478 Alex Farrell

                Nice work!

              • http://www.cutebun.blogspot.com Cutebun

                Not bad on antique lens! 

              • Xavi B.

                Absolutely worthy to do. Is there any way we can learn how to attach lenses like this?

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=627279524 Rick McQuinlan

                I’d do it with my antique camera but I’m worried about focal planes etc matching up, how can it get a crisp image like that?

              • http://www.facebook.com/al3xander Alex Colin Liebensfeld

                I’d now like to ask if anyone has a 90+ year old lens they can sell me to attach to my 60D

              • http://www.facebook.com/sevenblah Steven Tippett

                do you guys know of any people or websites that have custom adapters to old lenses to new cameras? is their a website to buy those lenses already adapted? or get it custom made… let me know thanks :)

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=673348108 Judith Desta-Shanko

                I love the results, gorgeous! 

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=595772479 Cate Partridge

                I did something simialr with my Brownie Hawkeye, by pulling the back off of it and adding my rebel to the back without lens. I will have to play some more to get the focal plane right though

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