Vintage lenses

Using vintage lenses, with all of their flaws and imperfections, can help make your images more film-like. Here are the three I love.

It’s now widely appreciated that many great old lenses of the analog era can capture images that have that elusive quality known as character. Writers of the early 20th century tried to express these qualities by describing them as “rounded” “luminous” or “plastic” rendition, but later writers and scientists dismissed such terms as imprecise and speculative, turning to resolution and later MTF testing to quantify lens performance parameters.

Vintage camera photography and vintage lenses are going through a resurgence nowadays. Read on to learn more about best vintage lenses.

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Let's take a look at some creative and affordable options into finding, purchasing, and utilizing vintage lenses in your film and video projects.

I wanted to share three Canon FD lenses that I think are great lenses to look into if you want to give vintage lenses a try on your mirrorless camera.

A short summary of the Yashica MAT 124G: this camera is awesome! The standard lens is outstanding with specific “vintage lens” look into images.

Vintage lenses can be a great way to get some different glass for you to try without spending much money. But, there are also a number of hidden gems that can create stunning and singular results. My penchant for vintage lenses started primarily because I didn't have much money when I got my first camera. I was in a small photography community of full-time photographers and

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Why use vintage camera lenses? It's a good question, and you can find a lot of good answers to it here. From saving money to enjoying the shooting process and timeless image quality, come read and learn why you should have at least one vintage lens in your camera bag.