Share your peculiar camera/lens combinations!
Posted Nov 26, 2022, 9:55 AM UTC
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Sorting through some camera boxes and found my Chinon CE Memotron and a fetching Steinheil München Cassar S 50mm F2.8, which makes for a rather odd setup. Why not share your strange/rarely seen combinations?
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Cosina CT-1 Super+ Pentacon 30mm/Meyer Lydith
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All hail the mighty CT-1 super. The base cameras for Voigtlander Bessas and other Canon, Nikon and Olympus flavours.
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Yeah, that one. I've used it during summer, the lightmeter did a good job. It's small, lightweight and solid. With a cheap pk/M42 adapter it's double the fun
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I'd say my Kiev 60 with a Carl Zeiss Flektogon 50mm lens. As Kiev cameras go I don't think it's *that* unusual, but when I looked for a wide angle as my 3rd lens I decided to go for a German one instead of Soviet like the two others (which are the standard Volna-3 80mm and a Jupiter-36 250mm).
Also the lens itself might be unusual, I'm not sure. Other Flektogons I've seen either have the classic stepped grip ring design with raised parts in bare metal or diamond cut rings with full black color. Mine has a strange combination of both I haven't seen elsewhere. I would have preferred the black and metal design, but I got it for cheap.
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My Kiev only had the Flektogon when I got it. That paint job is weird, is there maybe a chance it was done third-party? How's the quality of the paint?
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That's what I thought at first but I'm not sure because it's really well done. Still possible it was done by a pro. At first I thought I might put it how I like but in the end I decided it's too much time and effort for the result.
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Multiple of these east german lenses were made in different housings. There are a number of cases of the more modern multi coated versions build into old housings they had still left. Maybe this is a housing from a different lens, or some export version. Is there a MC marking on the lens? If its Red its a more recent lens design, if its white its the most recent.
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What a beauty! Always fancied getting a Kiev 60, but I never got on with 6x6 and always preferred 6x7. I wonder if your version of the Flektogon is a later variant compared to the Zebra version?
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I love it! You really need to in order to deal with the fact there's always something wrong with it though.
I suppose my lens is a transition between the two versions, it's the most likely explanation I have.
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The thing that always put me off was playing Russian camera roulette. It’s fine when it’s a Zenit for £20, but a different ball game when it’s a Kiev for £200+.
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On the other hand with the price of other 6x6/6x7 SLR cameras, I'm okay having to deal with its attitude because all in all the body and 3 lenses cost me less than 300€. Granted it was done through carefully waiting for good deals and gambling on lower condition equipment, but even if you count that just buying available good condition stuff would have doubled the price it's still very cheap for a medium format SLR system.
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There is a german ebay seller who sells clad Pentacon Six caneras for around that price. Those a basically the same
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I've shot some pictures on my F-501 with a DX digital lens that didn't cover all of the frame
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I love that! It’s certainly up there on odd setups.
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I once put a Sigma 70-200mm F2.8 on a Nikon EM, just to add to the Nikon absurd-ness.
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I love that 28-70 that's bigger than the little FG, but it's really a great combo.
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Occasionally I will use my OM 28mm f3.5 on my canon elan II. I have an EF 28-105 that is great, but I love that OM lens so much that I wanna use it on everything I carry!
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Speed graphic with a 12” dalmeyer telephoto.
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Leica M2 and Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 20/f4.5
OK, this is seriously weird. Bonus points for that!
Just for fun, but actually works perfectly zone focussed with an external finder (which is how you usually shoot wides on a rangefinder anyway)