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The Godox AK-R21 turns your round headed Godox strobe or speedlight into a projector

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Godox has announced the Godox AK-R21 Projection Attachment. It’s compatible with Godox lights that have a round head, like the Godox V1 speedlight, Godox AD100Pro and the H200R round flash head for the Godox AD200Pro. It’s also somewhat compatible with Godox’s regular-shaped speedlights when used with the AK-R25 square-to-round head adapter.

It’s essentially designed to turn your flash into a projector – in a similar fashion to products like the Light Blaster – letting you create different lighting effects with your Godox lights using various slides. The modifier itself, though, only comes with a couple of demo slides. If you want more, you’ll have to buy into the Godox slide kits or make your own.

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Shooting a giant crazy wide angle f/2 projector lens on the Fuji GFX100

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Weird lenses are always fun, and they seem to be popping up quite regularly. But there isn’t much out there that’s weirder than this. This is a super wide-angle Iwerks f/2.0 lens, designed to project 70mm film. Here, though, Jay P Morgan is using it the other way around to get an ultra-wide view on the world shooting portraits in a local market.

Jay P’s shooting the somewhat ridiculous looking lens on the Fuji GFX 100 medium format camera – which still doesn’t cover the entire projection circle of this insane lens. Originally designed to project images inside a domed cinema, it actually works pretty well for shooting some interesting looking indoor portraits, thanks to that wide f/2.0 aperture.

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This $20 projector lens has the most amazing swirly bokeh

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If you like swirly bokeh as much as I do, here’s a real treat. Kipronar 105mm f/1.9 is a cheap projector lens that will give you the most amazing bokeh for photos and videos. Mathieu Stern found one for only €20 (around $23) and in this video, he shows you what it can do.

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You REALLY like swirly bokeh? Then check out this rare projector lens

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Photographer Mathieu Stern has built an admirable collection of rare, weird, super-cheap and DIY lenses so far. With his latest finding, he kinda brought all of this together. He laid his hands on a Cinestar 75mm f/1.9, a cinema projector lens. After making his own adapter, he used it on a Sony a7 III and tested it in a video. If you are a swirly bokeh fan, you’re gonna love it.

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How to use a $6 slide projector lens for stunning portraits

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Photographer Mathieu Stern is passionate about finding and even making unusual lenses. This time, he hit a flea market and found a $6 treasure: Rollei 90mm f/2.4 MC. It’s a slide projector lens, but Mathieu adapted it to his Sony mirrorless camera and found out that it’s also great for portraits.

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This 70 year old projector lens creates “insane swirly bokeh” that rivals a $7K Leica

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Weird and crazy lenses is what Mathieu Stern has become known for. He seems to find some of the most unusual lenses that ever existed, and then makes them fit onto his Sony mirrorless camera. Fortunately for us, he posts images and video captured by those lenses he finds to YouTube.

And this particular lens is a beauty. A Carl Zeiss Kipronar 120mm f/1.9 projector lens which cost him only $70. It’s fixed wide open at f/1.9 and was never meant to be used for shooting photos. But Mathieu was able to adapt it. He says the closest he could find to a modern equivalent of this lens is the $7,000 Leica APO-Macro_Summarit-S F2.5/120mm.

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How to get a 50mm f/1.2 lens for only $20

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Super fast primes are a handy thing to have. But they’re not cheap. Their price puts them out of reach for many photographers. Even if funds aren’t an issue it can still be difficult to justify spending that much on one prime lens. But what other options are there?

Well, if you’re Mathieu Stern, one option is to breath new life into a $20 Bell & Howell 50mm f/1.2 projector lens. In his latest video, Mathieu shows us just how simple it is to start using one of these with your DSLR or mirrorless camera.

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NEX-7 With a 140mm f1.8 Projector Lens Makes The Most Beautiful Photos

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With lenses getting more and more expensive, here is a nice trick for getting wonderful photos with an f/1.8 140mm lens for less than 100$.

Austria based photographer Attila Fricz of mflenses hacked together an old KO 140mm f1.8 projector lens to a Sony NEX-7 and the results are a delight.

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