Joel Richards
Vintage Photography #2
As a partly related post to the blog post vintage digital photograhpy a more recent project of mine has involved converting an large format, plate camera lens (~1895-1910) to be used on a Canon EOS body.
Here’s the finished product:
The steps involved in the conversion:
Firstly the lens needed to be mounted on something that would fit onto a standard EOS mount.
I decided to simply use a body mount, with a hole made in the centre to allow the lens to be mounted without any changes or damage to be made to the original lens:
The next main problem was resolving the flange focal length difference between an EOS camera and and non-standardized box/plate camera. The EOS distance is 44mm, and for the new(old) lens it seems to be around 150mm. The difference was made up using an extension tube. Although as the fairly modern extension tubes don’t replicate the retro feel of the lens, I’ve also recently bought an M42 mount extension bellows which will be replacing the extension tubes, but doing the same job.
Here are a couple of sample photos taken from the office:
Tags: photography, photos, vintage, camera, canon
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