{"id":21405,"date":"2019-03-16T15:33:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T22:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=21405"},"modified":"2019-03-16T15:37:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T22:37:41","slug":"two-lenses-are-better-than-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=21405","title":{"rendered":"Two lenses are better than one?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If one lens is good two must be better right?\u00a0 That’s what I thought when I came across the Kodak Tele Disc.\u00a0 The camera has two separate lenses of different focal lengths that it used one at a time.\u00a0\"KodakTeleDisc\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> But why not use them both I thought.\u00a0 Heading the warning not to disassemble the camera I tore it apart instead.\u00a0\"KodakTeleDiscDestruction\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Then it was a matter of how to do it.\u00a0 I needed some form of shutter that could work for both.\u00a0 Fortunately I have the “Konicazilla” which is a Konica Autoreflex TC SLR<\/a> that I removed the mirror box and a few other normally necessary bits from.\u00a0 As this was a proof of inanity I didn’t worry too much about how secure or parallel the lenses were (that became a problem by the end of the roll).\u00a0 Using some black foam and some hockey tape I “secured” the lenses in a somewhat focused manner and was off. \u00a0 The lenses are a 12.5mm f4 and a 22mm f5.6.\u00a0 I allowed the light\u00a0 to fall where it might on the 35mm frame which was uneven given my rough cut holes for the lenses.\u00a0 This silliness is all possible because I was able to place the lenses at the same distance from the film that they would have had in the Tele Disc camera.\u00a0 And here are some of the results.<\/p>\n\n\t\t