My FrankenSONY Camera

I am reading a book by a famous woman photographer, about what it takes to be a creative artist-photographer and the struggles and the creativity and all the issues with doing it professionally. She works with a huge 8x10 camera for her work.  But I found a photograph of her with a 35mm Leica digital camera around her neck.  The Leica costs $9600.  But what is interesting is that the lens on her Leica is a lens from a really old Leica film camera.   You saw the photograph I did on February 25 of the tree branches, where I used essentially a magnifying glass as a lens.  So using an old Leica lens is similar to that quality but not as severely out of focus around the edges.

So this is my original Leica film camera.  It is a Leica II manufactured starting in 1932.  When I first got it in a trade with a friend, I traded a more modern lens for his much older camera.  I discovered that I had to use a slow film to take photographs with this because light leaked around the edges of the focal plane shutter.  So I remember walking around Geneva, NY, where Kathy's mom lived, taking photographs with this camera. So I am temporarily putting the lens from this camera on my modern SONY a7 III camera, with the use of an adapter I built.  I did some tests, however by gaffer-taping the lens to an adapter on my SONY!  I will, of course show you some of the results after I finish making the finished, more permanent adapter.  What IS interesting, is that this camera still works perfectly!  What is the chance, by the way, that my SONY a7 III will still be working in 94 years!