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After we consider lenses, we normally consider chunks of steel or plastic with glass parts inside them. If someone says “wood lens” to us, we normally consider CNC or laser-cut fashions of lenses that don’t even have any optical properties and are merely chunks of wooden that resemble a lens. However not this time. Oh, no. This one’s a wood lens, with glass optics that truly works.And who do you suppose made this lens a actuality? Yup, that’s proper, bizarre lens king, Mathieu Stern, who teamed up with the oldsters at Hungarian photographer lens creator, Bizarre Lenses, to carry the lens to life and no matter the way it may see – which appears fairly good – it appears fairly superior, too!The optics are primarily based on the Tremendous-Takumar 55mm f/2 M42 mount lens. It’s a fairly nice lens (I’ve one myself) however not very costly so far as outdated sought-after glass is worried. The lens was shipped to Bizarre Lenses by fellow Hungarian photographer, Hispan, and when it arrived they instantly began engaged on changing the lens to carry Mathieu’s imaginative and prescient to actuality.All the construct is documented as a montage in Maathieu’s video and it even comes full with a magnetic lens cap. It’s nonetheless M42 mount and might simply be used on Mathieu’s Sony cameras with using an adapter. Even the aperture ring nonetheless works, having additionally been swapped out utterly with a brand new wood one.Regardless of the rehousing, the lens appears like its shoots pretty much as good because it ever did. And, after all, a brand new exterior shouldn’t have an effect on how the optics work in any respect. However it certain appears much more fairly on the skin. Mathieu mentions within the video that in a visit to Switzerland to check it out, it obtained loads of discover from individuals within the space at any time when he was capturing it.A really cool and enjoyable lens conversion!
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