GrumpyTim | Wood Turning Without A Lathe - Vintage Lens Test - Vivitar 28mm f2.5 @GrumpyTim | Uploaded 3 years ago | Updated 6 hours ago
The first thing to say about this video is that it's definitely NOT a how to do wood turning video!!!!! but it might inspire a bit of lateral thinking if you've got a small piece to turn and no lathe to do it on - obviously taking care because using the wrong tools and techniques can be dangerous. That said, I had a clock in for repair - it had a broken suspension spring and a missing finial from the case - I didn't film replacing the suspension spring because the main thing there is getting hold of the correct part for the job - the actual replacement is fairly straight forward. The video glosses over how long I had to spend matching the finish so you couldn't tell the finial was a replacement - black stain, French polish, linseed oil and wire wool all went into the mix there.
I've had the Vivitar 28mm Auto Wide-Angle f2.5 lens for a while - it needed cleaning which I did a while back but I'd never tested the lens so I thought I'd do a combined Vintage Lens Test video. All footage (with the exception of the footage actually showing the lens) was taken using the Vivitar lens. The lens isn't the sharpest I've used when shooting wide open but it does give some amazing onion ring bubble bokeh (if you like that sort of thing) when the conditions are right. Minimum distance to subject is good at just under a foot, and makes the lens very usable for fairly close in work like in this video
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The first thing to say about this video is that it's definitely NOT a how to do wood turning video!!!!! but it might inspire a bit of lateral thinking if you've got a small piece to turn and no lathe to do it on - obviously taking care because using the wrong tools and techniques can be dangerous. That said, I had a clock in for repair - it had a broken suspension spring and a missing finial from the case - I didn't film replacing the suspension spring because the main thing there is getting hold of the correct part for the job - the actual replacement is fairly straight forward. The video glosses over how long I had to spend matching the finish so you couldn't tell the finial was a replacement - black stain, French polish, linseed oil and wire wool all went into the mix there.
I've had the Vivitar 28mm Auto Wide-Angle f2.5 lens for a while - it needed cleaning which I did a while back but I'd never tested the lens so I thought I'd do a combined Vintage Lens Test video. All footage (with the exception of the footage actually showing the lens) was taken using the Vivitar lens. The lens isn't the sharpest I've used when shooting wide open but it does give some amazing onion ring bubble bokeh (if you like that sort of thing) when the conditions are right. Minimum distance to subject is good at just under a foot, and makes the lens very usable for fairly close in work like in this video
If you've enjoyed this video and/or it's inspired you, and you feel like making a donation, you can leave a PayPal donation by following the PayPal.me link here: paypal.me/GrumpyTimYouTube?locale.x=en_GB
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"Overture"
by GrumpyTim
http://www.grumpytim.com
