If you’re fed up with the high cost of camera lenses, help may be at hand. Ari Jaaksi, a photographer in Finland, built his own lens for a mere 8 euros ($8.72/£6.71). Naturally, such a lens isn’t going to rival the optical quality of the best Canon RF or Nikon Z lenses, but that’s not the point here. Jaaksi’s built his lens to be used with a vintage Graflex medium format film camera, as an experimental project where the lens’s charismatic lo-fi look matters far more than outright sharpness.
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(Image credit: Ari Jaaksi / YouTube)
(Image credit: Ari Jaaksi / YouTube)
(Image credit: Ari Jaaksi / YouTube)
(Image credit: Ari Jaaksi / YouTube)