There is no autofocus in old lenses, nor manual focusing, as the lenses are locked in the housing. When using a modified vintage lens, focusing is your biggest problem. With a Mir-1B lens A yellow pikeperch in a lake, shot using a Mir-1B lens All images were taken using Canon EOS 80D or Canon EOS 90D bodies. Subjects were illuminated with a Sola 1200 focus light and two Sea&Sea YS-D3 strobes (aimed sideways). I used f/2.0 for the Helios 44-2 lens and f/2.8 for the Mir-1B, with a shutter speed of 1/320, ISO 100, and exposure compensation of -3.0EV. To get the best bokeh effect in your images, you must set the lens to a wide aperture. As the depth of field is very small at this magnification the camera must be kept perfectly still and parallel to the subject. Modified vintage lenses are great performers as underwater macro lenses when fitted with additional diopters – such as the SubSee +5/+10 magnifying lenses –Īnd are suitable for capturing objects approximately two to four centimetres in size. Generated in my pictures, adding a whole new dimension to my underwater photography. When I saw my first underwater photographs taken using modified vintage lenses, I became fascinated by the almost impressionistic swirl of depth and distortion that it Shot using a Helios 44-2 plus a SubSee +5 diopter A painted comber. A peacock mantis shrimp DIVE’s Summer ’23 print magazine cover photo. My modified lenses have the sharpness only in the very centre of the image, which gradually decreases towards the edges of the frame, giving the image an unusual ‘bokeh’ look and feel. It is important to note that taking photographs with modified vintage lenses is completely different to ‘reverse lens photography’ – the practice of mounting lensesīackwards on DSLR cameras. By removing the front element, flipping it over and putting it back in the lens body, I created what I call a ‘modified vintage lens’. I used some of my old vintage lenses, produced in the Soviet Union more than forty years ago – lenses such as the Helios 44-2 58mm and Mir-1B 37mm. Revillagigedo Archipelago & Guadalupe Island.
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