Anonymous
10/30/2025, 6:44:34 PM
No.4479033
This is my favorite odd lens. It's a a hundred year old Bausch & Lomb Animar C-mount lens that came on some throwaway 16mm magazine camera a seller threw in my box to get rid of. This this has a poor ape range, f2.7 to 16 only, no other controls, no focus, nothing. It is absoluly TINY, this thing is like an inch long, made entirely out of stainless steel and glass, and rotates with the smoothest feel with the finest firm little indexing clicks of any Lens I've ever felt. I keep it on a body just so I can rotate it because it feels so good, like the barrel is just floating along on teflon roller bearings and somehow the very peak of each click is a microscopic metal spring that just clicks over like a timepiece clockwork. I've got a dozen other fancy-ass collectable C lenses for my Bolex 16mm, and yet I put this on and everything looks sharp as shit and the colors are just fucking dandy. So I got a Z-mount adapter, popped it on my Z7, and now I'm shooting with this fucking goofy antique lens but I swear it outperforms all the other third party Z lenses I've got for snapshitz. Of course you're gonna crop, downsize & recalc it anyway when you develop snapshots so idgaf about the coverage, but I suppose it'd be appealing to you MFT nerrrds bc you'd get full coverage of your sensore.
and no of course you can't see the same colors it produces on Ektachrome movie film on a digital sensor so i'm not even going to pretend, but
and no of course you can't see the same colors it produces on Ektachrome movie film on a digital sensor so i'm not even going to pretend, but