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Gear Talk => Lens Talk => Topic started by: Toby on March 01, 2019, 09:22:17

Title: Kodak Ektar 47mm f2.0
Post by: Toby on March 01, 2019, 09:22:17

This is adapted from an old Kodak Retina II folder. It's a classic Double Gauss 6/4, VERY sharp, with my favorite kind of bokeh.

Title: Re: Kodak Ektar 47mm f2.0
Post by: bobfriedman on March 01, 2019, 10:24:04

very nice.. love to see the EXIF that goes with these images.

Title: Re: Kodak Ektar 47mm f2.0
Post by: Fons Baerken on March 01, 2019, 10:48:30

Wonderful show!

Title: Re: Kodak Ektar 47mm f2.0
Post by: Thomas Stellwag on March 01, 2019, 11:37:54

great  use of this lens

Title: Re: Kodak Ektar 47mm f2.0
Post by: Akira on March 01, 2019, 13:12:08

The lens unleashes its amazing charcter on your capable hands.  Thank you for sharing, Toby!

Title: Re: Kodak Ektar 47mm f2.0
Post by: Frank Fremerey on March 01, 2019, 13:12:59

totally love this!!!!

Title: Re: Kodak Ektar 47mm f2.0
Post by: Ian R on March 01, 2019, 15:23:51

Agree. Beautiful.

I have the Kodak camera this lens is used in. How did you managr to adapt it? To use this lens I need to load with film but if I can adapt it that would be perfect.

Title: Re: Kodak Ektar 47mm f2.0
Post by: Derek of Venango on March 01, 2019, 17:10:16

Awesome series Toby!

I'll have to see if this is the lens on my Father's Retina.

Title: Re: Kodak Ektar 47mm f2.0
Post by: Nasos Kosmas on March 02, 2019, 20:19:50

Wonderfull!

Title: Re: Kodak Ektar 47mm f2.0
Post by: F2F3F6 on March 02, 2019, 21:20:52

Bravo Toby !

I like your bubble-bokeh lenses, in particular with flower close-ups ! Beautiful "impressionistic" pictures...nothing more to say : fantastic !
All at f:2.0 I suppose ?

Title: Re: Kodak Ektar 47mm f2.0
Post by: Toby on March 02, 2019, 23:49:38

Let me answer a couple of different things all at one time. First, I don't know why the EXIF data has been stripped (if it has). Basically yes, I shoot everything wide open at f2 and I try to stay as near to base ISO 100 as I can. The lens is pretty easy to dismount from the bellows (it has a retaining ring but that is a bit hard to reach). However the lens has a coupling lever for the rangefinder that I ended up cutting. After that it is possible to use the retaining ring to mount the lens on a ring to screw into a short M42 helicoid. The biggest problem is to keep the shutter open, since there is no T setting. If I were more enterprising, I would have disassembled the lens and removed the shutter blades, but that is a bit scary, so I rigged up a small tab to keep the shutter level from closing. It is a lovely lens, and extremely sharp in the center.

Title: Re: Kodak Ektar 47mm f2.0
Post by: John Geerts on March 03, 2019, 09:10:16

Nice Results Toby.  Thanks for the explanation.

Title: Re: Kodak Ektar 47mm f2.0
Post by: Dr Klaus Schmitt on March 04, 2019, 08:52:37

nice ones Toby!

Title: Re: Kodak Ektar 47mm f2.0
Post by: Ian R on March 04, 2019, 10:21:51

Yes, thank you for the explanation.

As an experiment I am trying to do the same with a Rodenstock from a Kodak Retinette. I am using body and lens caps cut to form an adapter. Going well so far but hard work.