New Member Introduction.

[Brian]

New member from Virginia, USA. Found this forum suggested by the "photography-forum" closing down thread. I see several new members from there.

I'm glad "Brian" was not taken for an account name, makes it easy to remember my LogIn.

I've been on several camera forums for a long time- have made a number of forum-friends in Australia. Some of them have Lenses that I've worked on.

My friend wanted a lens made the same year he was, turning 80.


This is a "wartime" Zeiss lens, made in 1943.



Gave it a complete make-over before sending "way down under".

Oh yes, and to give an idea of age,

I Saw Elvis.

Elvis, 1976 Capital Center by fiftyonepointsix, on Flickr

and have the pictures to prove it. Taken in 1976, digitized the slides using an old duplicator on a much newer camera.

[tenchy]

Hi Brian.
Cool to have seen the King. I remember the day he died. And the summer of 76 in UK too!

[petrochemist]

Lovely lens Brian. It a shame your so far off I have a few lenses that could do with a going over
Including some older than 80!

[Brian]

In the UK- you are in luck, close to Chris.

https://skyllaney.com/

Chris has turned my hobby into a business. As a Good Luck Gift for his new business, I gave him a Carl Zeiss Jena 4cm F1.4 Biotar made in 1927, the first F1.4 lens that I know of. He converted it to Leica M-Mount. I will be getting one of the pre-production 50mm F2 "Bertele Sonnars" from him.

[petrochemist]

Thanks Brian, I have bookmarked that link for future reference

[Brian]

Eight is Enough by fiftyonepointsix, on Flickr

I converted 5 of these to Leica mount, rebuilt the three original Leica mount Sonnars.

This is with the 1934 Sonnar on the Leica M9, wide-open. Focus on the strand of hair in the foreground,

Warm November Day by fiftyonepointsix, on Flickr

This lens is my favorite.

[Isac]

Welcome Brian. It looks like your are already a part of the family

[Ozzie_Traveller]

G'day Brian

Ah .... those were the days when a lens was a LENS - rather than a collection of electronic bits surrounding some fine chunks of glass !

Phil

[Grumpy John]

G'day Brian and welcome to our little community. By the looks of things your are well and truly up to speed on posting images, and are already catching up with old mates.