Hi all! We’ve been very busy adding items from our collections of things into our camera shop (CC Design Studios) at http://www.ccstudio2380.com this past week. Here’s a little peek at what’s been added.
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The Nikon N75 / U2 was one of the last 35mm AF SLR film cameras made by Nikon. U2 for the Japanese market, N75 in the United States, and F75 elsewhere. It’s a rather sophisticated camera with a host of useful and cool features, even full on manual.
To me the black body looks sexy and the silver one looks kind of pewter or champagne silver (if that’s even a color).
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Our vintage hand made whale weathervane that we purchased while visiting New England in the middle 1970s. I made the solid white oak base to properly show off his elegant profile.
Carol and I continue to downsize our collections of things and it’s time for Wally the Whale to swim to another home. Maybe yours? He’s available in my online camera shop at http://www.ccstudio2380.com
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My son Timothy was crazy about the TV show ‘Blue’s Clues’ – we had Blue’s Clues cups, plates, spoons, toys, games, and just about anything Blue’s Clues and her pals. Fun memories.
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Just a quick post to introduce you (again) to a great little time machine. Take a simple and in this case inexpensive digital mirrorless camera (Fujifilm X-A10) mount a Fotodiox adapter behind some vintage 35mm camera lens and suddenly your older lenses have a new life.
In this set-up, a Fujifilm X-A10 digital mirrorless camera, a Fotodiox Pro FD-FX adapter, and a Canon FL 50mm f1.8 lens from around 1965.
Set your camera to aperture priority and select the proper lens focal length in the camera’s menu, set to manual focus and you’re good to go.
In this example I’ve mounted a vintage Spiratone 135mm f2.8 lens on a Fotodiox M42-FX adapter. The ‘FX’ identifies the mount found on Fujifilm digital camera bodies. The ‘M42’ indicates the type of mount on this lens. M42 is also known as a universal screw mount and is used on film cameras like Yashica, Pentax, Fujica, and a bunch more.
This image of the ferns below was shot using the Canon FL 50mm f1.8 lens and the appropriate adapter. Captured at f2.8 at about one meter.
f2.8f8 or f11
This image of the same ferns below was taken using the Spiratone Tc 135mm f2.8 lens nearly fully wide open at f4 from three meters.
If you’re like me you have a bunch of beautiful vintage lenses just sitting around looking good in your display cabinet. Now and then you’ll shoot a roll of film and then it’s back into the cabinet. By purchasing a few inexpensive adapters for use on your mirrorless camera these classic lenses can see the literal light of day again. Remember that when these lenses were new they cost big bucks back in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Why let that investment go to waste.
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Chasing Classic Cameras with Chris 