GrumpyTim | Vintage Lens Test - 50mm E.Ludwig Meritar f2.9 - Handcrafted - Making The New Workshop Sign @GrumpyTim | Uploaded 4 years ago | Updated 2 hours ago
This video is a bit different to my usual videos - I've had the vintage E.Ludwig Meritar 50mm f2.9 lens for a while and have been meaning to make a video with it. I also needed to make a new sign for the GrumpyTim workshop, so I decided to put the two projects together into one video.
The lens itself was made by Ernst Ludwig, based in Lausa, near Dresden, Germany. It is the Exa or Exakta fitting and came complete with the Ihagee Exa camera which I'll feature in a future video. The lens has a lovely bokeh and is pretty sharp in the centre then it gets progressively softer towards the edges when wide open at f2.9. The 50mm focal length is equivalent to 100mm when used on a Micro Four Thirds camera like the Lumix GX80.
I wanted the sign to look old and battered - like it had been there for years - I keep various bits of old wood because it's simply more interesting than new wood and matches better when I'm repairing old things for customers. I had a plank of what I thought was mahogany sitting in the shed which I knew would be the right size for the job, but when I looked properly, it turned out to be about 2 inches of mahogany with the rest made of stained pine - it had probably been a shelf in an old piece of furniture and they'd been economical with the good wood!!! I knew I had a more appropriate piece of wood at a friends house but couldn't get there due to the lockdown so I made do with what I had and anyway, I knew it would just add to the character of the sign (knowing of course that the pine would be horrible to carve compared to mahogany).
The framing material was from a very old wooden greenhouse and it's utterly beautiful wood, full of texture and character.
I thought about adding a music track to the video but I wanted to retain the calmness of handcrafting something so I settled on no voice over and no music.
Thanks for watching/reading.
You can see my other vintage lens test videos here:
Industar 61 - youtu.be/y_83-v-XxJ0
Chinon 55mm f1.4 - youtu.be/GEpBNv5TvvU
http://www.grumpytim.com
This video is a bit different to my usual videos - I've had the vintage E.Ludwig Meritar 50mm f2.9 lens for a while and have been meaning to make a video with it. I also needed to make a new sign for the GrumpyTim workshop, so I decided to put the two projects together into one video.
The lens itself was made by Ernst Ludwig, based in Lausa, near Dresden, Germany. It is the Exa or Exakta fitting and came complete with the Ihagee Exa camera which I'll feature in a future video. The lens has a lovely bokeh and is pretty sharp in the centre then it gets progressively softer towards the edges when wide open at f2.9. The 50mm focal length is equivalent to 100mm when used on a Micro Four Thirds camera like the Lumix GX80.
I wanted the sign to look old and battered - like it had been there for years - I keep various bits of old wood because it's simply more interesting than new wood and matches better when I'm repairing old things for customers. I had a plank of what I thought was mahogany sitting in the shed which I knew would be the right size for the job, but when I looked properly, it turned out to be about 2 inches of mahogany with the rest made of stained pine - it had probably been a shelf in an old piece of furniture and they'd been economical with the good wood!!! I knew I had a more appropriate piece of wood at a friends house but couldn't get there due to the lockdown so I made do with what I had and anyway, I knew it would just add to the character of the sign (knowing of course that the pine would be horrible to carve compared to mahogany).
The framing material was from a very old wooden greenhouse and it's utterly beautiful wood, full of texture and character.
I thought about adding a music track to the video but I wanted to retain the calmness of handcrafting something so I settled on no voice over and no music.
Thanks for watching/reading.
You can see my other vintage lens test videos here:
Industar 61 - youtu.be/y_83-v-XxJ0
Chinon 55mm f1.4 - youtu.be/GEpBNv5TvvU
http://www.grumpytim.com
