The Wonderful World Of Lumix G1 Mated With Ancient Lenses
May 31, 2013
Udi Tirosh
Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.
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The Panasonic Lumix G1 was the first camera to feature a mirrorless interchangeable lens. It was ground breaking. Today the market is saturated with variations on micro 4/3 and mirrorless cameras, yet Yuji Takahashi gave his G1 a new life by mating it with ancient lenses from the past. How ancient? some go all the way back to early 1900’s.
Yuji stops at nothing to get a lens to work with the G1. Leather, velcro, foamies and pieces of metal are used in the adaptation process. The results are just as dreamy as you would expect.
Here is a picture taken with the Goerz Taro Tenax you see above
Here is how the G1 was fitted with a Nikon F mount adapter (salvaged from an F90) so old Nikkor lenses can be used.
and a sample with the NIKKOR-S Auto 1:1.4 / 50
Olympus D-Zuiko 1:2.8 F=38Mm
Yashica Half 17 1:1.7 F=3.2Cm
Canon Ixy Digital 400 7.4-22.2Mm 1:2.8-4.9
While this post was focused on the Lumix G1 mods, Yuji has plenty of other goodies on his Flickr stream. Well worth a check.
Udi Tirosh
Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.
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3 responses to “The Wonderful World Of Lumix G1 Mated With Ancient Lenses”
My absolute favorite lens on my Sony A57 is a Pentax/Asahi SMC 50/1.4 that we found in my late grandfather’s closet. That’s followed closely by his 135/2.5. They were made around 1970, and both take absolutely stunning pictures. Not having the option of manual focus or aperture forces you to make decisions about each shot you take, and they’ve made me a far better photographer.
Still wondering why doing this work when you can spend the money on great modern lens with all modern stuff (like AF or Stabilisation…). Or shoot full analogue then.
you can’t get these images with modern lenses. look at the rendering and bokeh. he is trying for something unique and succeeding, with a fairly old dslr I might add.