Original “Pancake” Photo by woolgenie on Flickr (CC-BY)
After comparing pinhole and body cap “lenses” I decided to continue my little lens comparison series. In this post I list and compare all available interchangeable pancake lenses.
Zone of Interest
Joanna and I visited the annual AIPAD Photography Show in New York City for the first time. Besides looking at the vast amount of (sometimes repetitive) old masters black and white photo prints we observed the visitors …
Leica M Typ 262 & Summarti 35mm f/2.4 Asph. Video Review (Deutsch)
Erfahrungsbericht und Video Review eines Leica Beginners mit einer Leica M (Typ 262) und dem 35mm Summarit f/2.4 Asph. Objektiv.
The Future is Female
I joined the people of New York and and documented the Womans March on NYC with a Leica M and a 35mm lens on January 21st. 2017
Pinhole Can Camera Portraits, Photoville, New York City, 2016
Recently I bought the smallest digital Interchangeable Camera System from Craigslist. It´s called Q and it is made by Pentax (now Ricoh). It is so small that the inventive Q from James Bond might had actually co-invented it (if he would be a real person in the first place). Anyway, the Pentax Q System consists of several Interchangeable Lenses and one of them is particularity interesting because it is very very slim, just 6.9 mm. It is the Pentax Q 07 Body Cap Lens aka the “Mount Shield Lens”. What makes it so slim is that is has no movable parts inside. Body Cap Lenses have no focus mechanism and typically no aperture to choose from. Everything is preset and you have to work with what you have. What you gain from this minimalistic Lens-Zen-Design is the opportunity for real Point and Shoot Snapshot-Photography! This lens is by far not the only model around. Read on and view a comparable list of available Body Cap Lenses and Pinhole Lens Caps for interchangeable Camera mounts…