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Tuesday May 26, 2020
#117 Lenses from the Cupboard
Tuesday May 26, 2020
Tuesday May 26, 2020
Back from the defeat by Mike Novak on last week’s Pub Quiz show, we’re handling it well, or at least two of us are. This week Simon opens his lens cupboard door and invites Johnny and Perry to direct his hands into its dark depths. What will he pull out?
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EPISODE 117 LINKS
Vivitar Lenses
The DKL Lens Thread
Yeenon DKL to M42 Lens Mount Adapter
Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 45mm f2.8 DKL
Schneider-Kreuznach Retina-Curtagon 35mm f2.8 DKL
Carl Zeiss Distagon 28mm f2.8 T* Contax/Yashica
Petri Penta M42
35mmc: Mamiya RZ67 Lenses & Accessories
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EPISODE 117 TAGS
#CLP117 #Bokakkeh #CupboardLenses #Macro #PetriPenta #SchneiderKreuznach #Vivitar #MamiyaRZ67 #Distagon #ContaxYashica #CarlZeiss
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Tuesday May 19, 2020
#116 Are Asian Pears Apples?
Tuesday May 19, 2020
Tuesday May 19, 2020
So you think you know about lenses? Come and have a go at the Classic Lenses Podcast Pub Quiz! Quizmaster Perry Ge puts hosts Johnny & Simon against each other and the might of uber photo gnome, Mike Novak. Who will take the gold? More importantly, who's going home with a sad silver medal face?
MIKE NOVAK
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CLASSIC LENSES PODCAST PUB QUIZ #1
ROUND 1:
GENERAL LENS KNOWLEDGE
1. Which camera company made Sekor lenses?
2. What is the significance of the following 3 places: Midland, Solms, Wetzlar?
3. How many elements are there in the original Petzval lens?
4. What do the following lenses all have in common? Zeiss 50mm f1.4 Planar, Super Takumar 55mm f1.8, Canon 35mm f2 LTM, Olympus Pen 38mm f1.8, Leica 50mm Summicron
5. The Canonet QL17 is one of world’s most beloved fixed lens rangefinders. What do the QL and 17 stand for? (Need both)
6. Who was Ludwig Bertele?
7. Taylor Hobson & Cooke, in all their brand iterations, are as we know legendary British lens manufacturers. Name two other relatively prominent British lens manufacturers (not camera) that were not part of the Taylor Hobson/Cooke companies.
8. Which lens design was reportedly so admired by Japanese Emperor Hirohito that he would only allow his picture to be taken with lenses of that design?
9. Which lens brand/rebrand was sold by the American camera company Ritz Camera?
10. What is the lens on the Yashica MAT-124G?
11. Ernst Ludwig made a 50mm Meritar lens for Exakta and M42 mount. What is the maximum aperture of that lens?
12. How many different max apertures were there of 50mm Minolta MD lenses?
13. What was the only LTM lens made by Olympus.
14: Which French company is widely credited with making the first wide angle retrofocus lens?
15. This lens is an extremely fast medium format normal lens made for a Japanese medium format SLR. In the USA, the camera was sold co-branded with a legendary maker of large format cameras. Name the camera and lens.
16. This ultra-rare monstrously huge lens is one of the rarest and most expensive lenses ever made. Introduced in 1972, it has a 220 degree angle of view, weighs 5.2 kilos, and produces a circular image on a standard 135 film negative.
17. This lens manufacturer was one of many that produced lenses for the Vivitar brand. Vivitar lenses made by this company had 37 as the first two digits of their serial number. It still exists today.
18. (4 points) Soviet lens factories - in which city is their factory located?
a) LOMO b) Arsenal c) KMZ d) FED
ROUND 2:
CATEGORIES
1. German lens manufacturers.
2. Which Nikkor lenses were made natively in Nikonos Mount?
ROUND 3:
LINKS
1. Which Japanese beer shares a name with a lens and camera company?
2. Which camera company shares a name with a type of Apple?
3. Which famous astrophysicist shares a first name with a famous German lens manufacturer?
4. Which UN weapons inspector shares a name with a film development chemical?
5. Laika was a famous dog that shared a name, phonetically at least, with the camera company. Why was Laika the dog famous?
BONUS ROUND
1. This Japanese lens manufacturer was purchased by Yashica in 1968 and became part of the Kyocera group in 1983 after the merger of Kyocera and Yashica.
2. Sears sold a rebranded TLR called the Trumpfreflex. What camera was this a copy of?
3. Who was the designer of the Bolex Camera and Alpa-Reflex Camera?
4. What is the focal length and aperture of the Helios 65 lens?
5. What was the lens on the original Zeiss Ikon Nettar 510 folder?
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EPISODE 116 LINKS
Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down
Wheel of Fortune Best Spin Ever
Miss Teen USA South Carolina OMFG
Silver Medal Face: The saddest-looking second-place finishers in Olympic history
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EPISODE 116 TAGS
#CLP116 #ClassicLensesPubQuiz #AsianPears #Laika #Novakian #SadSilverMedalFace
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Monday May 11, 2020
#115 Cookes and Bokinas and Takoomas, Oh Myyy!
Monday May 11, 2020
Monday May 11, 2020
Johnny has been allowed back into our own Facebook group and his ban seems to have done him and everybody else a world of good. The sun has been shining, and even Simon has taken a photo (plural, in fact!) Perry is deep in the Cooke Panchro zone. Added to this unnaturally good mood, Someone's knockin' at the door Somebody's ringin' the bell...
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EPISODE 115 LINKS
Vivitar Series 1 90mm f2.5 VMC 1:2 Macro "Bokakkehkina”
Kuribayashi C.C. Petri Orikkor 50mm f2
Cooke Speed Panchro Cinematography
Moraine Hills State Park, McHenry, Illinois
Bokakkeh
Couto Camera Company on eBay
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EPISODE 115 PLAYLIST
Let 'Em In - Paul McCartney & Wings
Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix
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EPISODE 115 TAGS
#CLP115 #Bokakkeh #Rolleiflex #Rollei35RF #ArsenalMir24H #Vivitar90mmVMC #Bokina #PetriOrikkor50mmf2 #KMZFT2 #M-Rokkor40mmf2 #Fomapan200 #CookePanchro #TheSpy #MoraineHillsStatePark #GreatEgret #SandhillCrane #Takoomah #BluebellWoods #RobbieJ #Wings
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Monday May 04, 2020
#114 Bokakkeh
Monday May 04, 2020
Monday May 04, 2020
Something of a quickie this week, but we managed to unload plenty of lens talk as well as discuss Chris Holland’s lens buying guide and introduce a luscious new word.
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EPISODE 114 LINKS
Classic Lens Buying Guide and 10-Point Checklist
Rolleiflex 2.8c
Bokakkeh
Couto Camera Company on eBay
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EPISODE 114 TAGS
#CLP114 #Bokakkeh #Bukakke #Buttcrack #WetOnWet #Polaroid195 #Tair33 #Kiev88 #ZeissOptonBiogon35mm #Rolleiflex #RolleiRF35
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Simon Forster
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Perry Ge
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Johnny Sisson
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