His stuff is pretty clever. For instance, a lot of his hoods are two-piece
featuring a mounting ring, a screw in shade section and the ability to mount
filters both on the ring and front of the shade - in different sizes. Some of
the hoods are well over $100 but they are pretty spiffy kit.
He also stocks the very hard to find genuine hood for the mFT 9-18mm lens, the
rectangular plastic one that costs about $60! Oh, and the lens itself for some
reason. Odd. I got the hood elsewhere slightly cheaper but it was a long and
annoying search.
I just bought the Perar Super triplet as a Chrissie pressie for myself as I
simply could not resist the concept -
http://www.japanexposures.com/shop/product_info.php?cPath=33&products_id=423
I am hopeless but I told myself that I can probably get most of my money back
if I want to. Miyazaki-san has built three original lenses now, all with runs
of 2-300. A 50mm f1.3, a 50mm f3.5 and now this 35mm f3.5. I'd love to find a L
mount 50/1.3 but that's unlikely.
http://www.camerapedia.org/wiki/MS_Optical_R%26D#MS-Mode-S_50.2F1.3_lens
He's a remarkable character. The lens may be no better than a collapsible Elmar
I suspect but incredibly compact and clever. Who could resist a tantalum
triplet? Hoods again - the lens comes, apparently with caps, hood and a hood
cap that doubles as a back cap as I understand it. That's thinking. They've
upped production from a planned 180 to a massive 200, all personally assembled
by the man himself.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonmanjiro/4954170134/in/photostream/
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 20/12/2010, at 12:52 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> You've got to want a hood pretty badly to pay 3900 yen but it does look
> like nice stuff.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> On 12/19/2010 7:01 PM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
>> A while back there was some discussion about why the Panasonic 20mm f1.7
>> doesn't have an OEM hood. Daft really.
>> Well, I found someone making a really nice dome hood for it - very compact.
>> http://www.japanexposures.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=435
>> I'd have a look around their site too - not cheap but there's some truly
>> amazing stuff.
>> An if you can cope wit the translation, check out their affiliate - there is
>> nothing this guy can't do!
>> http://www.hayatacamera.co.jp/services/miyazaki/index.html
>> If you're a Leica user or Leica thread on 4/3rds, this is serious lust
>> object territory.
>>
>> Andrew Fildes
>> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
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