We finally get around to answering your emails this week! Seeing that Perry is gallivanting around North America, we asked frenemy of the show and the man behind the constructive feedback summaries of our show on Instagram's @bestvintagelens, Ricardo Bayon to sit in the third seat and help us out. Topics include cheap vs expensive adapters, focusing screens, why it's difficult to adapt some lenses to other systems, what does the aperture pin do, and what's wrong with a Spotmatic? Plus a couple of questions that take us into the depths/pit of why we like lenses that are far from perfect.

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EPISODE 78 LINKS & REFERENCES

HELIOS 44m-4 to Nikon Adjustment

Camera Mounts Sorted by Register

Garry Winogrand at Rice University

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Don’t let anyone tell you that gear does not matter! Also, don’t start thinking that if you have the same gear, you can replicate the work of Isabel Curdes, as even she cannot! Isabel takes us laughing into the dark places she feels most comfortable. Along the way we take a trip through some of the A-list equipment Isabel has made the most of, and then moved on. A Flex Body Hasselblad with a digital back, boring Leica Summiluxes, an amazing large format soft focus Cooke lens, adapting to her Fuji GFX, tilt shifting, adding elements to lenses and exploiting light leaks with large format.

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dodho magazine, June 2018

Connected 2018 exhibition in the UK, April 2018

OnLandscape Magazine, Issue 155, March 2018

Sunny 16 podcast, Episode 117: Women Of Film #1, January 2018

Sunny 16 podcast, Episode 75, November 2017

Emulsive.org, August 2017

SheShootsFilm, July 2017

Jon Wilkening's podcast, Episode 26, June 2017

EPISODE 77 LINKS & REFERENCES

Hasselblad Flex Body

Cooke Portrait PS945 Lens

Cooke Portrait PS945 Lens review at HKDonut

ZEISS C Biogon T* 2,8/35 ZM

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We went on a bit this week, or rather Simon and Perry did. Johnny went a way for a while to do some household chores, but sneaked back later hoping he had not been missed. He hadn't, because Simon was salivating over his friend's Contax and Zeiss collection that had been laid before him. So, a camera heavy episode, but with plenty of lots of Planar, Sonnar, and yes, Tessar talk to to keep you happy.

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EPISODE 76 LINKS & REFERENCES

Contax RTS, RTS II and RTS III Series SLR cameras

Contax AX

Contax Aria Review by Cheyenne Morrison at casualphotophile.com

Baby Rolleiflex

Horizon 202

Designed by Porsche: The Samsung ECX1

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Do aspherical elements improve or detract from ooftah (bokeh)? Has Johnny shot flowers with his Primoplan? Has Simon been comotosed by Tessars? These are a few things tackled this week, plus forthright opinions on C-41, street photography hesitancy and Johnny and Simon narrow down the listeners suggestions for Perry's cheap lens challenge.

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CineStill °Cs "Temperature Control System" TCS-1000

Yashica Yashinon-DX 50mm f2

Konica AR 40mm f1.8

Meyer-Optik Görlitz Domiplan 50mm f2.8

Industar-61 52mm f2.8

Bronica RF645

Bronica RF645

Zenza Bronica S2

Schneider Kreuznach Xenar 45mm f2.8

Meyer Optik Gorlitz Primoplan 58mm f1.9

Kodacolor lenticular color cinema process

1933 Chicago World’s Fair in Kodacolor

Vivian Maier

Gary Stochl at the Art Institute of Chicago

Gary Stochl: "all of my shoes are comfortable"

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Perry loves cheap lenses, Simon digs Tessars (instead of burying or sinking them) and Johnny says nice things about bokeh with a Primoplan. An alternate universe strikes the podcast this week as the hosts acknowledge their lens prejudices and promise to at least try to overcome them... Plus trash talk on (some) Leica equipment, a quick chat on Zunow lenses and cameras, and more than you might hope for on Johnny's ginger beer.

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Ginger Beer Recipe

Jeffo Wongs Flickr Albums

Hacking the Ricoh R1 at 35mmc.com

Leitz Elmar 3.5cm f3.5

Leica APO-Telyt-R 180 mm f3.4

Leica Thambar 90mm f2.2

More Leica Thambar 90mm f2.2

Konica UC 35mm f2 by Ken Rockwell

Zunow 50mm f1.1 at Tamarkin Camera

Tessar Lenses

Meyer-Optik-Goerlitz Primoplan 58mm f1.9

Zunow Lenses and Cameras

Zunow SLR

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This week, Simon watches the new promotional video for the Hasselblad CFV II digital back for Hasselblad V Series cameras and decides to make something of a chimera out of his Sony and 500 C/M... We finally catch up on a few emails from Robbie Jamieson, Chris Holland and a correctly pronounced Ian Barnaby Nutt and finally do their emails some justice. As usual we can't get through a show without talking about panorama cameras and Perry's Xpan, and Perry gives tips on what he describes as budget lenses.

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EPISODE 73 LINKS & REFERENCES

The Sonblad

Leica CL

Leica 40mm Summicron

Kodak Bantam Special

127 Film

Perry’s Budget Picks: Voigtlander 35mm f2.5 LTM

Perry’s Budget Picks: 7artisans 35mm f2

Canon 50mm f1.8 III LTM

Hasselblad CFV II

Chris Holland: The Lord of the Red Rings

Fishing With Classic Rods

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#CLP73 #Sonblad #LeicaCL

This week Per Edman, a full time wiseguy of the Minolta Mafia, returns with a big little camera – a Fuji GFX 50R. Is it a large format camera as some Fuji marketing says, or is it not even medium format? Opinions are expressed and they may well be disagreed with... So is it worth mounting 35mm SLR lenses on the little behemoth? This question is answered and we also find out the sad truth why Per is so passionate about Minolta gear...

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EPISODE 72 LINKS & REFERENCES

Fujifilm GFX 50R

Minolta Rokkor-X 45mm f2

Minolta 85mm f2 Varisoft

Minolta MC 58mm f1.4

Minolta RF Rokkor 250mm f5.6 Mirror Lens

RMC Tokina 17mm f3.5

G.Zuiko 35mm f2.8 M42

Hasselblad XPan

Camera Mounts Sorted by Register

Ring Of Fire

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#CLP72 #FujifilmGFX50 #MinoltaRokkor

This week, Perry finds himself in the middle of a 1 million person strong protest demonstration, so he naturally grabs his Konica Hexar + Zeiss ZM Biogon & Hasselblad Xpan. Following on from a chat about Perry's undoubtedly worthy photos, the conversation naturally turns to flower and bokeh photography. Plus, news from Fujifilm, and find out why Simon felt guilty about shooting poppies with a Cyclop 100mm f/2? Perry and Johnny are still scratching their heads on that one...

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Cyclop T3C-2 (Helios) 100mm f2

Olympus OM Zuiko Auto-S 50mm f1.4

Olympus Pen-F G.Zuiko Auto-S 40mm f1.4

Zeiss C Biogon T* 2,8/35 ZM

Hasselblad Xpan

Fujifilm Acros II

Hong Kong-China Extradition Protest, 09 June 2019

Donald Trump Muslim Ban Protests, 27 January 2017

Persian Gulf War Protests, 1990-1991

Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes

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#CLP71 #ooftah #nokeh #fuckbokeh #protestphotos #flowerphotos

Perry Ge officially becomes a host of the Classic Lenses Podcast, and after an eternity, Johnny and Simon finally let him talk, and then there's no stopping him! Topics cover what professional sellers do with nice gear, focus aids, Alpa cameras & lenses as well as forgetting the difference between a Sonnar and a Planar... All this plus Johnny's long awaited field recording of Central Camera customers and co-workers.

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EPISODE 70 LINKS & REFERENCES

Zeiss C Biogon T* 2,8/35 ZM

Alpa Kern Macro Switar 50mm f1.9

Leica Elmar 50mm f3.5

Voigtländer 35mm f1.4 M NOKTON Classic

Fuji GW690III

The Argus Brick

Little Garden

Steinheil Quinon 50mm f2 and f1.9

Canon LTM 35mm f1.5

Canon LTM 35mm f2.8

Canon LTM 35mm f2

Canon LTM 50mm f1.8

Canon LTM 100mm f2 and f3.5

Topcor 5cm f2

Topcor 5cm f2.8 

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We have a full on lensgasm this week! Perry Ge is our returning guest, and we welcome him by promptly sending him away on a sinking ship to be washed up with his simple choice of three lenses from his collection as well as one from his dreams. So, put on your sunglasses and listen to the most lens namedropped episode ever!

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Ricoh 28mm 2.8 LTM

Leica Summicron 35mm f2 V4

Canon 50mm 1.5 LTM

Leica M6

Leica M Typ 240

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In memory of Karl Havens, all donations made to the Classic Lenses Podcast during the month of May will go to the Down Syndrome Association of Central Florida (DSACF)

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