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Classic Lenses Podcast

A podcast about photography with manual focus lenses

Ranked #1

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#14 Shooting Classic Lenses With Svetlana Belinsky

#14 Shooting Classic Lenses With Svetlana Belinsky

This week, Karl Havens, Johnny Sisson and Simon Forster are joined by Netherlands based photographer, Svetlana Belinsky ... Read more

16 Apr 2018

1hr 11mins

Ranked #2

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#100 Jason Lane To Zemax!

#100 Jason Lane To Zemax!

Our second anniversary and our 100th show. To mark the occasion professional lens designer, Jason Lane has returned and ... Read more

7 Jan 2020

2hr 20mins

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Ranked #3

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#65 Classic Karl

#65 Classic Karl

Host of the Classic Lenses Podcast, Creator of the Photography With Classic Lenses Facebook group, Professor and Program... Read more

29 Apr 2019

1hr 15mins

Ranked #4

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#17 Vladislav Kern's Guide To Soviet Optics

#17 Vladislav Kern's Guide To Soviet Optics

A history of the Soviet optical industry and debunking Soviet lens myths with the renowned collector, Vladislav Kern. Am... Read more

7 May 2018

1hr 26mins

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Ranked #5

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#55 Casually Photophiling with James Tocchio

#55 Casually Photophiling with James Tocchio

Dropping by this week is James Tocchio, founder of the excellent Casual Photophile blog and F Stop Cameras. James is a p... Read more

11 Feb 2019

1hr 41mins

Ranked #6

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#69 Desert Island Lenses with Perry Ge

#69 Desert Island Lenses with Perry Ge

We have a full on lensgasm this week! Perry Ge is our returning guest, and we welcome him by promptly sending him away o... Read more

27 May 2019

1hr 59mins

Ranked #7

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#27 Adapting lenses, the Emulsive way

#27 Adapting lenses, the Emulsive way

Bond villain, former aristocrat and film camera obsessive, EM from Emulsive.org joins Karl, Johnny and Simon to tell us ... Read more

16 Jul 2018

1hr 43mins

Ranked #8

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#33 Unforgotten Lenses

#33 Unforgotten Lenses

Karl, Johnny and Simon talk about the lenses they own, but rarely use (if ever). Listen in for handy justification tips ... Read more

4 Sep 2018

1hr 17mins

Ranked #9

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#101 Blessed Are The Eyes That See

#101 Blessed Are The Eyes That See

So, after our almost universally acclaimed and made for YouTube extravaganza better known as #100, we’re back on the rad... Read more

13 Jan 2020

2hr 4mins

Ranked #10

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#77 Isabel Curdes: Epic Dicking Around With Lenses

#77 Isabel Curdes: Epic Dicking Around With Lenses

Don’t let anyone tell you that gear does not matter! Also, don’t start thinking that if you have the same gear, you can ... Read more

22 Jul 2019

1hr 47mins

Ranked #11

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#39 Sexy Lenses

#39 Sexy Lenses

No Karl this week (again), so Johnny and Simon (eventually) talk about lenses that we've bought because they look great!... Read more

23 Oct 2018

1hr 55mins

Ranked #12

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#104 Fringe Pinching And Funny Rainbows

#104 Fringe Pinching And Funny Rainbows

Johnny’s back and he’s got a new toy, Perry has moved on from shooting riots to shooting the Zombie Apocalypse that is C... Read more

4 Feb 2020

2hr 4mins

Ranked #13

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#64 Designing Lenses With Jason Lane (Will you still love us when we’re 64?)

#64 Designing Lenses With Jason Lane (Will you still love us when we’re 64?)

Just when Karl, Johnny, and Simon started to think they knew about lenses, Jason Lane comes along and makes them realize... Read more

15 Apr 2019

2hr 8mins

Ranked #14

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#57 When Fungus Attacks! with Lyndon Booth

#57 When Fungus Attacks! with Lyndon Booth

This week Lyndon of Londinium Cameras joins us to talk about classic lens repairs, none of that autofocus rubbish here! ... Read more

25 Feb 2019

1hr 49mins

Ranked #15

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#28 f/1.2 And Faster!

#28 f/1.2 And Faster!

This week Karl Havens, Johnny Sisson and Simon Forster discuss the pros and cons of super fast 50=58mm standard lenses. ... Read more

24 Jul 2018

1hr 35mins

Ranked #16

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#42 Life, The Universe And Everything

#42 Life, The Universe And Everything

Another wide ranging chat on lenses and photography covering amongst other things, Carl Zeiss 35mm f/3.5 Planar, why Sim... Read more

13 Nov 2018

1hr 42mins

Ranked #17

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#47 FD+EOS DSLR=Win!

#47 FD+EOS DSLR=Win!

This week we are joined by Ivo Michielsen, EdMika's man in Europe. We talk about the EDMIKA mount replacement system tha... Read more

17 Dec 2018

1hr 35mins

Ranked #18

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#49 100mm With Bryan Nagar

#49 100mm With Bryan Nagar

This week we talk about 100/105mm (non macro) lenses with our guest, classic lens photographer, Bryan Nagar. The various... Read more

31 Dec 2018

2hr 1min

Ranked #19

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#79 Return of the Dragonslayer

#79 Return of the Dragonslayer

Perry is still hitting the road to New Brunswick in Canada, so we've asked Eric Sluis to take time out from shooting all... Read more

5 Aug 2019

1hr 55mins

Ranked #20

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#34 Ade Stirs The Pot

#34 Ade Stirs The Pot

This week we're joined by the seemingly innocent Ade from the Sunny 16 Podcast. As a self admitted lens newbie, Ade gril... Read more

10 Sep 2018

1hr 51mins

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