This is my contribution to the A Photo a Week Challenge: Nostalgic prompt.
It took me a while to come up with a theme for the challenge. Then I thought about my ‘getting back to basics’ project and I had my theme.
A few years ago I put together a kit of manual focus prime lenses to shoot digital the same way I used to shoot film in the 1970s and early 80s. It was a way of getting back to the basics of photography.
Then an accident last year left me with restricted movement in the right shoulder and a weaker right arm and I slimmed the kit down further to three small, manual focus primes and a small mirrorless camera.
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Lovely shots as ever David – just goes to show how good those old lens were. I quite enjoy shooting primes, I don’t have any old MF one but I have the original EF 50 and 35 lenses for my EOS.
Thanks Stuart. My oldest prime dates back to 1976 when I got my Olympus OM1. It’s one of the original OM system 50mm lenses. Back then they were single coated rather than multi coated like modern lenses.
Well it’s obviously still giving you Stirling service! I do like the old lenses though, I’ve always had a soft spot for the old Pentax screw mount ones.
I have a few Pentax screw mount lenses from the mid 1970s. They’re in a friend’s attic in the U.K. otherwise I would have tested them on a mirrorless camera.
You’ll have to get them shipped over!
I keep thinking about it but that’s as far as it’s got so far.