35mm Lens Adapters for HD

Just heard about a fascinating type of lens adapter for shooting through 35mm prime/zoom lenses on HD cameras-- project the image through the 35mm lens onto (moving!) ground glass, then shoot the resulting image with the HD camera through its optics dialed to macro. It's an "analog hole" approach that BW says works great. Manufacturers:

• Letus
• Redrock Micro
• Cinevate Brevis MP.1

Homemade cheapo bellows for tilt-shift photography (sort of).

old American Cinematographer article on Stanley Kubrick's use of a special 50mm f/0.7 lens used on Barry Lyndon.

Scientists at the U.S. DOE Ames Laboratory have developed a silver-based, mesh-like material with a negative index of refraction:

Metamaterials, also known as left-handed materials, are exotic, artificially created materials that provide optical properties not found in natural materials. Natural materials refract light, or electromagnetic radiation, to the right of the incident beam at different angles and speeds. However, metamaterials make it possible to refract light to the left, or at a negative angle. This backward-bending characteristic provides scientists the ability to control light similar to the way they use semiconductors to control electricity, which opens a wide range of potential applications.

Lots of interesting EOS lenses at Zenit Cameras, as well as adapters for Pentax M42 lenses so they can be used on EOS mounts. The Peleng 8mm fisheye (left) is neat, and Marco Pauck has a great page about it.

btw I went to Zenit after reading this post on Boing Boing about a Leica camera rifle.

Bob Atkins: Using Manual Focus Lenses on Canon EOS Bodies

From Photonotes.org: Using manual lenses and telescopes with EOS cameras.

"Chandlor 95mm f/2 for EOS mount" (read: magnifying glass, cardboard, tape)