Rim lit leaves (LVK Wk28) - a photo on Flickriver

            My vintage lens rabbit hole journey continues. This image was taken with a 50mm f1.8 Prakticar lens, made I think in the 80s in what was then East Germany. It came attached to a Prakticar film camera and was the kit lens for that particular camera. I paid the princely sum of £9 for the camera and lens combination and they arrived a couple of days ago. I already had an adapter for this type of lens mount and so I was able to use it straightaway on my Olympus camera and in fact this image is the 3rd or 4th image that I took with it. I thought I had got a terrific deal on this lens and was feeling pretty smug but then I discovered that because of the way these lenses work it's impossible to shoot it on my modern camera at any aperture other than wide open at f/1.8. I could go into why that is but I won't bore you with the details. Suffice to say that I now have a lens that is very good at one thing and one thing only. But I'd be a liar if I said I was disappointed because what it does do it does very well.
   

Taken on: July 11, 2020

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