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Shooting outdoor flash portraits with a 50 year old M42 lens on a modern mirrorless body

January 25, 2017John Aldred

It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of M42 and other older manual focus lenses. I’ve been using them for years with my DSLRs. They have imperfections, suffered from very random quality control, that give each one a slightly unique look and feel. They often have characteristics that can’t be reproduced with modern “perfect” […]

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These cheap Soviet lenses are as out of this world as their “Jupiter” name would imply

June 11, 2016John Aldred

Jupiter was a class of lens made by manufacturers of the former Soviet Union. There were quite a few different lenses in the Jupiter lineup, and in this set of videos from Mathieu Stern, we’re going to learn about four of them. A lot of people tend to ignore older lenses, but I picked up a Jupiter-9 85mm […]

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