I Tried WEIRD Camera Lenses

[@gabriesl87]

Never thought i'd hear the sentence "To get it to focus to infinity above water"

[@philskene]

I had a Nikonos underwater camera and the two lenses that you mention -- the ones for use in water and above water. I have to say that they were the most outstanding lenses I have ever used, and I've used many on a multitude of different cameras. The clarity, resolution, colour rendition, ... was absolutely superb. I suspect in part that was because of their internal simplicity. But whoever designed them should be given an award.

[@dewindoethdwl2798]

I inherited my Father’s Nikonos with the underwater lens. Got a new set of seals for it and I’ve been using it to photograph my friends surfing. It was built to be used but boy, the clean it gets after a session should keep it functional for years. Wonderful piece of engineering design.

[@stew_redman]

If you ever want to shoot film, that Minolta Hi-Matic is a great alternative to a wasteful disposable. As you have seen, it has a great lens.

[@thepurestofboredom1219]

Or any 70-80s rangefinder that hasn’t gone up in price yet

[@snappiness]

The samples looked really good. I have a clone of it and like that one as well.

[@KlausKokholmPetersen]

Minolta AF SLRs are dirt cheap.

[@nobeanieroboticsco.3383]

My partner has one and it’s a fun little camera

[@jamesquinn8958]

I don't know why some photographers look at vignette negatively. I think its part of a lenses charm and makes the photo more unique and stylistic compared to what you see with your eye. It can also help center the focus on your subject helping them to stand out more.

[@sanjikicksofficial]

It doesn't always look good and sometimes you wanna focus on all of the picture

[@jostin4041]

If you wanna stack/stitch exposures it sometimes can ruin the image

[@hunter133official]

Astrophotography however...

[@gavinjenkins899]

Because it's lost information, you can always add vignette, you can't remove it the same way

[@parkermusselman9824]

I found that buying cheap M42 or L39 helicoids a great way to adapt a lot of lenses without having to print the threads themselves. It makes using fixed focus lenses a bit more usable without having to swap on macro extension tubes. Seems like you're all set on the modeling/printing side, but if you ever need a hand I've got a lot of Fuji X adapters and other weird stuff modeled. Can you imagine shooting an 80mm lens by using zone focusing exclusively like on a Nikonos? The history of the camera is also worth looking into. It was conceived by the one and only Jacques Cousteau and first developed by a french brand before being sold to Nikon for further development. I got one in a craigslist bundle for a score and the whole camera is as fun and quirky as the lenses. The viewfinder is incredibly nice as well, huge and bright for use underwater with goggles. Thanks for another interesting video!

[@DispoLens]

These are so cool! Thank you for sharing. Projects like these are the reason I wake up in the morning

[@snappiness]

Thanks for sending over cool stuff to show!

[@quintinfertig89]

I subbed!! I have shot plenty of weddings, music videos and concerts on vintage lenses only! I actually bought a full frame a7ii for its low light capabilities and ran ONLY vintage glass on it, manually focusing on concerts taught me more than I'd ever like to know. None of them this weird though, the weirdest just being the Jupiter 8 a lot of people know about lol. 😅 I've been waiting to find someone like you on KZbin, you scratch some sort of niche in my brain, and I'm SO glad the algorithm has pointed me here. My only gripe is your videos aren't long enough!!

[@thissidetowardscreen4553]

Brilliant video Snaps! Love the look produced by vintage lens on digital cameras! Thanks for sharing and amazing results!

[@RetroRedLight-ue1ry]

All these vintage images you are taking kind of reminds me back about 15 years ago when filmmakers would use camcorders and a adapter to put 35mm lens on. Philip Bloom I think should have a video. Also it reminds me of the filmmakers adapting manual focus Nikon lens to Canon DSLR cameras. Back then everyone was buying Nikon manual focus because you could jump ship to another brand and just adapt your lens. Today lens everything gets corrected with the body of the camera or in editing.

[@timebendpictures]

I love your channel so much, thank you for all the hard work and the fun experiments!

[@danielwillits2173]

The engineering of those underwater lenses is a work of art. So analog and beautiful. What a great video, thank you 👌🏻

[@B9scrambler]

Loved the lenses you featured here, esp. the amphibious ones. The adjustment knobs are a neat feature.

[@Valthesly40]

I'm a simple man. Snappiness post, I like and watch =)

[@themattiemisfit]

This was such a cool project! Would love to see more in the future with even more weird lenses

[@qingyunwang3802]

I adapted Pentax Auto 110 lens to my GXR using your adapter file shared on Pentaxforum. It works though the mount was a bit loose due to adapter lug being a tat too wide to mate camera body, so I used some superglue to fill in the gap. It was a nice party conversation topic.

[@molybdnum]

I need to start going to parties where people talk about GXRs

[@coryirvin6651]

What a fun restriction. Those amphibious lenses are awesome! Love the tactile knobs on the side of them.

[@alexc_photos]

Very cool video and beautiful images. Love doing this stuff, haven't taken it to your level yet but hopefully once I get better with modeling software I can print some adapters for the old stuff I inherited from my grandfather. Guy was as much of a tinkerer as I am, wish he had lived long enough to share our passion for photography together.

[@LDA937]

the pentax lens is so small that I thought you're using a medium format fujifilm camera

[@chrismofer]

1:44 this shot was awesome very sharp but also a nice glow

[@EcclecticNerd]

Always a pleasure when the video starts with Auto 110 lenses haha! Started collecting them after seeing you mention them, still need to get the 70mm but I did get the actual camera for my first foray into film photography.

[@snappiness]

Cool! I have not ever shot 110 film, but it would be fun to try

[@alexbemanian]

Really cool to see the nikonos lenses adapted to a modern camera! Amazing work, now I need to figure out how to do the same

[@JackBurton-qp4hc]

I wanted vignette and control over it, similar to the Lensbaby Burnside 35, but without the cost and limitation of it being only 35mm. I removed the glass from a UV filter and glued an eBay "2.5-42mm Mechanical Iris Aperture Diaphragm Condenser Module with18pcs Blades" to it. I then mount this weird looking thing to any particular lens using step-up/down filter adapters. Of course close the aperture too much and you get a circle, but with live-view you can see the subtle vignette in the corners before taking the shot, adjusting as necessary for that lens/aperture.

[@snappiness]

Interesting effect! Cool to get a true vignette in camera rather than just in post

[@willjones1696]

6:29 did you censor “shift” to appease the KZbin demonetisation gods???

[@luzr6613]

Great stuff. Especially loved the Nikonos content - fab lenses.

[@kunalmaurya5095]

I recently adapted a vintage film 38mm F3.8 lens to my canon 6d. the flange distance of that lens is less then the EF mount so the lens housing barely touches the mirror, I keep the mirror stuck open and it works.

[@speedandstyletony]

The Pentax 110 lenses covered the aps sensor much better than I thought they would. I have a few and use them adapted on m43 but figured they would have very bad vignetting on Fuji X. Good to know they are usable.

[@snappiness]

Yes. Different ones seem to cover better than others, like the 70mm covers pretty well but the 24 and 18 less so. But I still like them :)

[@cdrkennon]

Nice shots! You might have fun adapting enlarger lenses. I did that to make a macro lens back in the ‘70’s. A Nikon enlarger lens made a fantastic macro lens when mounted on a bellows.

[@gedav1234]

You really should check out the Nikonos cameras too. I have two Nikonos V’s and they are a blast to use both in and out of the water. It’s my all weather cameras.

[@Badgerheist]

Great to see those Nikonos lenses getting use. I've always been tempted to get one, but didn't want to muss with adapting (no 3D printer in my house...yet). A fun and weird lens to adapt is the fish-eye-takumar 18mm f/11. It's meant to be hyperfocal when adapted with the standard M42 adapter, but is much more fun to use with a focusing helicoid. Quality is...lovably flawed. A lens I'd someday love to try is a 2x tandem arrangement (similar to your 3x monstrosity) for making 3D-effect wigglegrams.

[@depotmsa2362]

super sick man ! ive always wanted to adapt nikonos to my fujifilm , nice work !

[@ericj.w.ruijssenaars3421]

What a cool episode! 😃

[@witonosfreestyle]

Hey snappiness, always like your content. I love adapting lenses from those broken cameras except that I made a little more modifications to the 3D printed adapters.

[@matthieuzglurg6015]

Happy to see you use an X-H1 ! Those are really starting to get affordable (I had one for 2023, I moved to an Nikon Z6 now, kept my X-T2 as a smaller option), and they really are the best value for money camera for the X-mount I think. Even the X-T2 (which I ADORE) isn't as good due to the lack of IBIS, the compromised ergonomics ect which the X-H1 fixes. If I wasn't using a freakton of Nikon DSLRs (I just bought a D2X this week, complementing my D700, D300, D1X and D2H) with the F mountlenses that go with it, I would have probably never sold the X-H1 to move to the Z6, this is such a phenomenal camera when it comes to image quality and ease of use. People say those 3rd gen Fujis weren't good autofocusers, but man if those are bad I have no idea what's good. My clients never had anything to say about my sports / motorsports images :D

[@snappiness]

I agree. The Fuji xh1 is awesome.

[@brennenf]

Super fun episode. Would love to see the Pentax AF35 adapted! Love that point and shoot.

[@brennenf]

Pc35 AF, that is.

[@snappiness]

Yes, me too. I had one and really liked it. Now I'll just find a broken one and give it a try. Don't want to break open a perfectly good working one

[@iDjDepp]

Great result! And a great video that inspires you to experiment😀

[@alfathsayyidina]

Wow that minolta instamatic was really good. I adapt kodak funsaver disposable lens into my canon eos M camera. And it's give me a vintage look to it. Now i have body cap that can bee a lens too.😂

[@Canisestlupus]

That triple-lens is hilarious, at first I hated it, but when I saw the video I also got motion sickness. The lens retaliated.

[@Hudinn]

In 2015, i adapted Carl Zeiss Pro Tessar lens on my Canon, aperture was on camera, so i integrated aperture on mount, these were very nice lenses (28 f3.2, 40 f2.8 and 80 f4), paid 10€ on second hand market and sell for 300€ with adapter mount😁

[@dvn.s_0069]

The triple lens probably the closest thing to what shrooms looks like I have seen. Get some fun lights going, that would be a lot of fun to shoot.

[@CollectionOfJunk]

Ive always loved my nikonos cameras and especially the 35mm 2.5 but have always been sad about there not being an adapter for the system. Might have to finally go out and make my own!

[@habitualhero]

Never tried it myself, but I've heard that enlarger lenses can make good quality camera lenses, particularly for close-up photography. The decline of the darkroom means there are plenty of bargains available.

[@IasKeysan]

Yesss a Nikonos lens, I have had a 35mm f2.5 lens adapted to my Ricoh GXR for ages and it's so much fun to use. ✨ I have a Pentax Auto 110 too with 3 of the prime lenses. They work well on the GXR as well, being mounted inside with the help of 3D printing. Projecting onto APSC just fine. 😳

[@RetroRedLight-ue1ry]

That lens with three lens reminds me of my Panasonic 3D Micro Four Thirds lens. Panasonic made one 3D lens about ten years ago. There is a hack to get the lens to film 3D video and you put tape on one of the contacts or you can hack a GH1 or GH2 and use it for filming in 3D. I think you might have to do something in editing also can't remember.

[@Eyeamsurreal]

This is really cool! Thank you very much for sharing!

[@reinasgallery]

I have an extra canonet with a bad shutter sitting around that I’ve been wanting to try to disassemble and use the lens on my fuji. Gotta learn 3d modeling and see if my library has a 3d printer I can use 👀

[@Thomas99840]

I've been wanting to shoot with some old DKL mount Kodak Reflex lenses that my mom had floating around. I have an EOS R, and haven't been able to find an adapter. There is an EF-S adapter for the DKL mount - would I be able to use a DKL to EF-S and then the EF to RF adapter to use on my R?

[@mjohnson5108]

ok, trying not to freak out here -- for ages I had a Minolta Hi-Matic E and I was obsessed with the lens, and I always wanted to find a way to adapt it to digital but at the time I was only shooting on full frame digital bodies and the focal distance of the Minolta was shallower than my full frame bodies would allow. But now I'm shooting a micro 4/3 body (on your recommendation!) and based on this video it seems like it should be possible. Of all the minolta hi-matic cameras, the E had the best lens by far. It's a rokkor 40mm 1.7, super sharp with incredible micro contrast and minimal distortion. Would you be interested in collaborating on a project to adapt the lens to m43? I would really love to make this happen!

[@av8rjimmyyt]

These are some really… really.. weird lenses! 😂 the only thing that might ruin some of these is the vignette, but it adds more of an authentic feel to the photos.

[@akasoleil]

what happens if you cover 1 or 2 of the triple mount lenses while filming?

[@granthopper4132]

Excellent, as always, have you tried the Canon SX50HS.....12mp, old, 1200mm equivalent, and image quality stacks up, if your careful.

[@tonykeltsflorida]

I got a 135mm f/2.8 FD mount lens with a FD to EF-M adapter. Manual focus Bokeh beast

[@nikytamayo]

Awesome vignette on those tiny lenses. Wondering how these would do on a micro four thirds system.

[@classic.cameras]

A friend gave me a Pentax110 adapter. What a rollarcoaster ride that was even trying to research that adapt was. Never heard of them until he gave me the adapter. Almost got a set of lenses off eBay but hesitated and "thought about it overnight" and sure enough someone else bought them. I do not recall but do you have a video on those lenses alone or is this about it? Have you tried them on a full frame?

[@velvetvideo]

that 3 lens thing gave me an idea.....2 lenses mounted stereoscopically (like a viewmaster) to make 3d images

[@christopherrodriguez7223]

These are lovely.

[@alexmiranda6107]

A really cool lens to adapt would be any Canon VL mount lens used in the L1, L2, LX-100, and LX-200 camcorders

[@snappiness]

Thanks for the heads up, that does sound interesting...

[@EJej-z5g]

for these 3 overlapping lenses, cover one, leave two and use red and cyan films from cheap paper 3D glasses on them, you should get anaglyph stereopair image

[@martpalamine7040]

Great video! Where did you get your strap for the Fuji?

[@snappiness]

Okay, I'm not normally someone to buy fancy stuff, but it's a $40 strap from Moment. It looks good, is comfy, but more importantly for me has a really clever system for quickly getting it on and off cameras. Since I switch cameras often it's really handy!

[@martpalamine7040]

@@snappiness Thanks! I thought it looked really nice, happy to see it’s relatively affordable!

[@snappiness]

@@martpalamine7040 yep! I'm cheap so $40 for a strap feels like a lot, but it is good and hopefully the last strap I'll ever buy

[@monoclelens]

Great experiments!

[@MrCouvade]

Where can I get a nikonos to Nikon adapter? Nikonos lens are the best

[@snappiness]

I made my own for Fuji and will make one for Sony E soon. It wouldn't easily adapt to a Nikon DSLR (flange distance) but an adapter could be made for Nikon Z.

[@karim2k]

Mmmm still no videos about the Mamyia ZD 😢

[@willie0947]

Where did you get your adapter? Don’t see it on Fotasy.

[@binkyboobosh1]

Some years back I did the same. I bought a few adaptors for my Lumix including one for my Pentax 110 lenses which you have. The old SMC Asahi Pentax lenses are the best. The f1.4 works particularly well on a digital.

[@paulstevenson200]

Why oh why the grotty muzak?

[@davidlawrence3230]

UW, next you need a UV-Nikkor!

[@FamilyGuyShorts-f2h]

but on the small pentax lenses from the start of the video didnt you have to crop?

[@snappiness]

No, those samples are uncropped. It covers APSC, with vignetting being minimal or pretty significant depending on the lens. But all the samples shown are uncropped.

[@DamianBrown]

This is a great rule 😄

[@symbioticsystems]

Give the Cyclop 1.5/85mm night vision lens a go.

[@scuba-people]

im curious why would you have so many nikor uw lenses ?

[@liaali8257]

kinda wanna try the lens on eos m with magic lantern

[@michaelgrino708]

Wait since when did you change to the xh1!

[@justlikeswimming5988]

This is so, so cool - don't get me started down this road (oops, too late!)

[@unbroken1010]

I was looking at a nikonos camera wondering why no one made a adapter , I don't have a 3d printer

[@drovoseg]

You should try lenses made for nuclear reactors observations

[@StarrysLostandFound]

Very cool 👍👊✨

[@link3457]

3 dispo lens look like you're tripping balls

[@CableWrestler]

You should try C or CS mount

[@l.nauwelaerts195]

Cool stuff!

[@MobiusCoin]

This is really cool

[@velvetvideo]

Great content :)

[@gregvanhassel876]

Where can I get that triple lens?

[@snappiness]

I post a link in my description. It's an Etsy store called DispoStudio.

[@FunnyAnimatoFilms]

That thee lens dohickey would be fun for a drug trip pov.

[@area51pictures]

Would you ever consider making an EF mount adapter for Contax N lenses? I would so pay you for that. I have this fucking fantastic autofocus contax 17-35 I've been trying to convert to EF (I do not care about aperture control or autofocus functionality, just that i can use it on my ef mount cameras) and I'm getting kinda desperate LOL. You are also totally the king for adapting those Nikonos lenses, because those are optical treasures.

[@snappiness]

That would be interesting - the flange distance difference is close, 4mm, so it may not even be possible depending on how the back of the N lenses looks. I've never used one before. To mirrorless would definitely would, there's even already adapters out there for that.

[@velvetvideo]

i don't quite understand why lenses on phones can be super small, but an external lens has to be 100x the size. Is that tradition or an actual physical limitation with the chip? Phones, like the Huawei or Xiaomi Ultra have 1" sensors now with up to 10x optical zoom and stay less than a centimeter thick. A 1" bridge camera like the Sony RX10 has a "normal" huge lens..... as an example. I'd love to see a new crop of tiny travel lenses.

[@owensteven_]

For anyone wanting to recreate something like this, the Minolta Hi-matic lens is (very likely) the same lens (made by Konica) as in all of these cameras, theoretically meaning you could get the same results using any of these cameras: • Mamiya 135 EE, Mamiya 135 EF, Mamiya 135 AF • Konica C35 AF, Konica C35 AF2 • Paimex 35-AF • Revue 500AF • Chinon 35F-A • Rolleimat AF • Fujica Flash AF Date • Cosina AF-35 • Elikon Autofocus Here's a video with some more info: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZjUfYVtpJeoaZI (to be transparent, it's a self plug 😄)

[@snappiness]

Great info, thanks!

[@MrSimonj1970]

Fun stuff, should have been longer!

[@warrenbinder3612]

What Fujifilm camera is that?

[@snappiness]

Xh1

[@MrStansfieldPhoto]

Do you share the 3D files anywhere?

[@snappiness]

Yes, linked in description

[@MrStansfieldPhoto]

@@snappiness Sweet! Didn't catch that. Thanks! Printing ASAP!

[@snappiness]

@@MrStansfieldPhoto cool! I'm by no means a great 3d modeler, but probably beats doing it yourself from scratch.

[@lachlanlau]

5:20 Autodesk Fusion is free for hobbyists

[@snappiness]

I'll have to give it a shot!

[@deltacx1059]

Use a telescope instead, I made a 5 inch (aperture) refractor and its a absolute beast for daytime photography but it was meant for astro.

[@Nedski42YT]

How about using a lens and bellows from a view camera? You could be the Ansel Adams of digital! ;-)

[@shadow.chicken]

UUH DID ANYONE NOTICE THE CAMERA STRAP RINGS??? you really need to replace those asap or they will fail and you will destroy your camera. its like $5 to replace them, probably cheaper if you look in a hardware store.

[@erosiondesertmusic]

Love experimental lenses

[@pessimisticdiabetic717]

nikonos!!!!

[@tomjanowski8584]

great video

[@colinbluth5461]

cool stuff

[@johnyoung1606]

Cool Fact,, "Nikonos" Camera was "Calypso" French Camera ?? (look up) Jacques Cousteau (look up) :) :) :)

[@jbp6759]

Fun!

[@FilmRepair]

Still shocking how cheap the Nikonos lenses are. Originally they were several hundred to even thousands in the 70’s and 80’s

[@stilldre7739]

ooop, and just like that my chances of getting a P110 lens is gone