As you may know, I’m a big fan of Canon FD lenses and it’a finally time to review one of the widest lenses in Canon FD line-up, the 17mm F4! WHY: Many people will ask: Why bother with such slow and fairly expensive 17mm prime, when every cheap modern kit lens more or less matches…
Shooting Anamorphic with SLR Magic Anamorphot 2x + Vintage Lenses
A fellow vintage lens user and filmmaker Khairil M Bahar, who is also the person behind a very popular “New Cameras – Old Glass” lens guide, is back on VLFV with an in-depth look at his SLR Magic Anamoprhot 2X anamorphic adapter. If you know me, I’ve never been a massive fan of SLR Magic…
PETZVAR 105mm F3.2 PL Mount Lens | Swirly Bokeh Monster
A few weeks ago I received an email from Denys Ivanichek, asking for some feedback and suggestions regarding a very interesting lens he has been working on! I’m sure a lot of you heard the name PETZVAL! I learned about such lenses when Lomography created their New Petzval 85 lenses back in 2013, which became…
LOMO 75mm T2.2 OCT19 Russian Cine Lens | In-Depth Review
I’ve been building my Russian LOMO CINE SET for a while now and with this review, we will finally start looking at these lenses in more detail. This is also the first review to feature a 4K test video and even though at the time of writing this, I’m still perfectly happy with 1080p final…
Carl Zeiss Jena Pancolar 50mm F1.8 “Zebra” | REVIEW
Carl Zeiss Jane Pancolar 50mm F1.8 is a bit of a cult classic. I have one in MC version as part of my “Jena” set and used to have a Zebra version also, but never got around to shooting any proper test footage with it, so I was quite excited to see Chema Mumford post…
My Anamorphic Lenses | Adapters | Solutions
Over the last few years I’ve been lucky enough to own and review quite a few anamorphic lenses and adapters. I’m often asked which one I would recommend, but everyone has different needs, so instead of pointing people at half a dozen different posts, I decided to put together a post that includes all the…
