Vintage Lens Reviews

Kodak Projection Ektar f:4.5 75mm Enlarger Lens is a vintage lens from the late 1930s and early 1940s that we mounted on a modern mirrorless camera and tested for bubble or bubbly bokeh, swirly bokeh, sharpness, flare, and black-and-white photography.

We mounted a vintage Tanaka Kogaku Japan Tanar H.C. 1:2 f=5cm Lens from late 1950s on a modern mirrorless camera, and tested it for bubble bokeh, swirly bokeh, flare quality, sharpness, etc. and shared the results.

We took off a vintage Tomioka Tominon 114mm F/4.5 lens off of a Polaroid Land Identification ID-3 camera, mounted it on a digital mirrorless camera, and tested it for swirly and bubble bokeh, sharpness, flare, etc.

Triplet 78mm F/2.8 MMZ is a Soviet-era projector lens that we mounted on a Nikon Z7 and tested for bubble or bubbly bokeh, swirly bokeh, flare, contrast, etc. and reviewed it.

The Wollensack Raptar 101mm f/3.5 Lens was a 35mm film camera lens made in the 1940s and 50s, and we tested this vintage lens for bubble bokeh, flare, and black-and-white photo quality and shared the results.

We took a Steinheil Munchen Magnostar 1:2.8 f=8cm VL Projector Lens off its projector and mounted it on a Nikon Z7 mirrorless digital camera, and tested and reviewed it for sharpness, bokeh and bubble bokeh quality, flare, and black and white photography.