Vest Pocket Kodak As A Canon Lens
A girl I know wanted to watch me build this, but she couldn’t make it over so I decided to document the crap out of it. I took a bunch of photos & precariously suspended my 5D above my head like this so I could shoot some video. It came out alright so I thought I’d share it with you guys too — aren’t I nice!
I’d seen a few people hacking old cameras around to make them into lenses for shiny new cameras around the internet and I wanted a slice of the action. I picked up a Vest Pocket Kodak (circa 1915) from eBay for about £15, I grabbed some M42 extension tubes & a cheap M42 to EF adaptor. Getting it all together was pretty straight forward, the old Kodak had a window on the back that popped right off & you can see right through to the lens. I grabbed the skinniest of the three extension tubes, lined it up & glued it right on the the back! BOOM! That’s pretty much all there is to it — let the glue set, screwed it onto the adaptor and sliped it on my camera.
Tools
This is what I used to bring this beast together.
First Shot
Which you can also see on Flickr if you like that sort of thing.
Kinda hard to believe that this shot was taken with a lens that’s around 100 years old… it’s remarkably sharp & even the colours straight out of the camera were pretty good. The bellows give it awesome macro powers too. Honestly though, I was expecting a photo with a little bit more of a ‘vintage’ feel.
The Video
Watch this beast come together in stop motion style!
Been playing around with After Effects a bit more recently — still rough around the edges but I am getting better at it. My main problem is, waiting for shit to render makes me die inside.
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