Free lensing

Day 93

No, not freelancing. Freelensing.

This is my first go at this, at 10pm at night. This is mostly rewarding with cooperative models and nice vistas, however beggars cannot be choosers.

Freelensing is somewhat a cult subsect of photography. People spend stupid money on crappy old lenses, and then hold them precariously close to their brand new shiny state of the art DSLR. Being a little luckier, I had an old (?!) DSLR and a cheap M42 mount lens laying around that I could happily risk any dust bunnies and damage to one or the other.

The technique is basically this..

1) Turn on your expensive DSLR with no lens attached (void warranty in process)
2) Hold old crap lens in front of camera, with focus set to infinity
3) Move it back and forth until you are satisfied you like what you see, press shutter button
4) Listen to crunch as expensive DSLR mirror strikes back of crap cheap old lens
5) Throw lens on ground and exclaim expletives
6) Post resulting images (if any) on blog, and brag about the vintage and amazing "miniture" look
7) Go to JB Hi-Fi and buy a Holga/Diana or a Lensbaby
8) Take the same photos wihout any frustration or damage to DSLR
9) Don't tell anyone you took them on a Holga/Diana/Lensbaby
10) Write a blog on how wonderful freelensing is

:)

This was taken on 350D, with an old (1972 model) Asahi Takumar 55mm f/1.8 lens held in front of the 350D. Some levels in Photoshop.