In 2021 the Digital Enlarger Lens Test Archive (D.E.L.T.A) outgrew its original home at 16-9.net – and its remit. It continues to expand, and is now the most wide-ranging resource for film-makers and photographers seeking and using enlarger, projector, macro, repro, process and cine lenses to create digital work. Spanning more than 170 years, Delta collates information on almost 4,000 universally-adaptable lenses, and contains hundreds of unique reviews and articles.
The quick-browse catalogue below orders every lens by manufacturer and can be filtered by category or keyword.
The primary archive tracks generations of lenses with more in-depth information, and ranks hundreds for sharpness and rendition. Please use the main menu and search function to access further articles, pictures and videos.
QUICK-BROWSE CATALOGUE
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Fujimoto 50/3.5
Black body enlarger lens. Likely triplet. |
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Fujimoto 75/3.5
Enlarger lens. |
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Fujimoto 80/4.5
Japanese enlarger lens fitted to Fujimoto G70. Some versions marked ‘E-Lucky’. Reviewed by Practical Photography in 1994. |
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Fujimoto E-Lucky 105/4.5 [V1]
Japanese black enlarger lens marked Anastigmat. |
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Fujimoto E-Lucky 105/4.5 [V2]
Japanese enlarger lens fitted to Fujimoto G70. Product images by Secondhand Darkroom. |
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Fujimoto E-Lucky 38/2.8
Enlarger lens. Image circle: 43mm. |
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Fujimoto E-Lucky 50/3.5 [V1a]
Black body enlarger lens with silver mount. Early versions marked “Fujimoto Ind.,Ltd Anastigmat”. Mixed-case fascia lettering. Likely triplet. |
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Fujimoto E-Lucky 50/3.5 [V1b]
Black body enlarger lens with silver mount. Later version marked “E-LUCKY” only. Likely triplet. |
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Fujimoto E-Lucky 50/3.5 [V2]
Black body enlarger lens. Likely triplet. |
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Fujimoto E-Lucky 50/3.5 [V3]
Black body enlarger lens. Likely triplet. |
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Fujimoto E-Lucky 50/3.5 [V4]
Silver metal barrel enlarger lens marked ‘Fujimoto Photo Co’ and ‘E-Lucky Anastigmat’. |
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Fujimoto E-Lucky 50/4.5 [V1]
Japanese all-black enlarger lens. |
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Fujimoto E-Lucky 50/4.5 [V2]
Black Japanese enlarger lens with silver mount marked “4 ELEMENT”. Smooth aperture ring. |
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Fujimoto E-Lucky 50/4.5 [V3]
Black Japanese enlarger lens with silver mount marked “4 ELEMENT”. Scalloped aperture ring. Product image by Shisan12. |
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Fujimoto E-Lucky 50/4.5 [V4]
Black Japanese enlarger lens with silver mount marked “4 ELEMENT”. Smooth aperture ring. |
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Fujimoto E-Lucky 75/3.5 [V1]
Silver (brass body) Japanese enlarger lens with black fascia. Product image by Shisan12. |
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Fujimoto E-Lucky 75/3.5 [V2]
Black Japanese enlarger lens marked “E-Lucky Anastigmat” on sloped fascia and “Fujimoto Photo Co” on barrel. |
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Fujimoto E-Lucky 75/3.5 [V3]
Black Japanese enlarger lens marked “E-LUCKY” on fascia and “ANASTIGMAT F=75mm” on barrel. Product image by Shisan12. |
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Fujimoto E-Lucky 75/3.5 [V4]
Japanese enlarger lens marked “E-LUCKY ③” on slanted fascia and “FUJIMOTO PHOTO IND. CO” on barrel. Knurled aperture ring. Product image by Shisan12. |
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Fujimoto E-Lucky 75/3.5 [V5]
Japanese enlarger lens marked “E-LUCKY ③” on flat fascia and “FUJIMOTO PHOTO IND. CO” on barrel. Scalloped aperture ring. |
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Fujimoto E-Lucky 75/4.5
Black Japanese enlarger lens marked “E-LUCKY 4 ELEMENT” on flat fascia. Smooth aperture ring. Product image by Shisan12. |
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Fujimoto E-Lucky 90/4.5 [V1]
Black Japanese enlarger lens marked “E-LUCKY ③” on flat fascia. “Fujimoto Photo Ind Ltd”. Image by Shisan12. |
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Fujimoto E-Lucky 90/4.5 [V2]
Black Japanese enlarger lens marked “E-LUCKY ③” on dished fascia. “Fujimoto Ind., Ltd Photo”. |
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Fujimoto Luckinar 50/3.5
Silver body Japanese enlarger lens. Likely triplet. |
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Fujimoto Lucky 50/3.5
Silver enlarger lens with silver mount marked “Fujimoto Ind.,Ltd Anastigmat”. Product image by Shisan12. |
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Fujimoto Lucky 75/4.5
Silver barrel Japanese enlarger lens with black fascia marked “Fujimoto Photo Co Lucky”. Packaging marked “E-Lucky”. |
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Fujimoto Lucky Projector 75/2.5
Projector lens fitted to Fujimoto Lucky Tiny 35mm slide projector. Made in Osaka. |
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Fujinar 250/4.5
Japanese enlarger lens marked f=25cm. |
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Fujinar-E 105/4.5 [V1]
Japanese Tessar enlarger lens marked ‘f=15cm’. |
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Fujinar-E 105/4.5 [V2]
Japanese Tessar enlarger lens marked ‘f=105mm FUJI PHOTO OPTICAL ‘. Yellow dot on aperture ring. |
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Fujinar-E 130/6.3
Japanese enlarger lens. Black body marked “FUJI PHOTO OPTICAL CO f=13cm”. Silver aperture ring with yellow dot. |
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Fujinar-E 135/4.5 [V2]
Japanese enlarger lens. Black body marked “FUJI PHOTO OPTICAL CO”. Silver aperture ring with yellow dot. |
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Fujinar-E 50/3.5 [V1]
Japanese enlarger lens. All silver body with black fascia marked ‘FUJI PHOTO FILM CO f=5cm’. |
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Fujinar-E 50/4.5 [V1]
Japanese enlarger lens. All silver body with black fascia marked ‘FUJI PHOTO FILM CO’. Aperture ring marked with red dot. |
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Fujinar-E 50/4.5 [V2]
Japanese enlarger lens. Black body marked “FUJI PHOTO OPTICAL CO”. Control knob on aperture ring. Product image by Shisan12. |
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Fujinar-E 50/4.5 [V3]
Japanese enlarger lens. Black body marked “FUJI PHOTO OPTICAL CO”. Silver aperture ring with yellow dot. |
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Fujinar-E 50/4.5 [V4]
Japanese enlarger lens. Black body marked ‘FUJI PHOTO OPTICAL CO’. Post 1957 production transferred to Fuji Photo Optical Machine. Product image by Shisan12. |
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Fujinar-E 75/4.5 [V1]
Japanese enlarger lens. All silver body with black fascia marked ‘FUJI PHOTO FILM CO’. Made in Odawara. |
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Fujinar-E 75/4.5 [V2]
Japanese enlarger lens. Silver body with black nose marked “FUJI PHOTO FILM CO”, made in Odawara. Aperture ring has control knob and red dot. |
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Fujinar-E 75/4.5 [V3]
Japanese enlarger lens. Black body marked “FUJI PHOTO OPTICAL CO”. Silver aperture ring with white dot. |
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Fujinar-E 75/4.5 [V4]
Japanese enlarger lens. Black body marked “FUJI PHOTO OPTICAL CO”. Silver aperture ring with yellow dot. |
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Fujinar-E 90/4.5 [V1]
All silver enlarger lens made in Odawara, Japan marked ‘Fuji Photo Film’. |
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Fujinar-E 90/4.5 [V2]
All silver Tessar enlarger lens made in Odawara, Japan marked ‘Fuji Photo Film’. Red ring and control knob on aperture ring. |
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Fujinar-E 90/4.5 [V4]
Japanese Tessar enlarger lens marked ‘FUJI PHOTO OPTICAL CO’. |
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Fujinon EFC 108/5.6
Optical printing / minilab enlarger lens. |
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Fujinon EFC 108/5.6
Optical printing / minilab enlarger lens. |
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Fujinon EFC 140/5.6
Optical printing / minilab enlarger lens. |
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Fujinon EFC 35/5.6
Optical printing / minilab enlarger lens. |
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Fujinon EFC 41/5
Optical printing / minilab enlarger lens. |
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Fujinon EFC 49.9/5.6
Optical printing / minilab enlarger lens. |
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Fujinon EFC 51/6.3
Optical printing / minilab enlarger lens. |
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Fujinon EFC 55/6
Optical printing / minilab enlarger lens. |
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Fujinon EFC 55/6.3
Optical printing / minilab enlarger lens. |
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Fujinon EFC 64/5.6
Optical printing / minilab enlarger lens. |
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Fujinon EFC 65/6
Optical printing / minilab enlarger lens. |
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Fujinon EFC 65/6
Optical printing / minilab enlarger lens. |
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Fujinon EFC 69/6
Optical printing / minilab enlarger lens. |
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Fujinon EFC 72/6
Optical printing / minilab enlarger lens. |
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Fujinon EFC 81/6
Optical printing / minilab enlarger lens. |
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Fujinon EFC 81/6
Optical printing / minilab enlarger lens. |
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Fujinon EFC 85/6
Optical printing / minilab enlarger lens. |
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Fujinon EFC 86/5.6
Optical printing / minilab enlarger lens. |
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Fujinon-E 105/5.6
First generation Japanese orthometar enlarger lens (predecessor of Fujinon-EP). |
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Fujinon-E 135/5.6
First generation Japanese orthometar enlarger lens (predecessor of Fujinon-EP). Product image by Shisan12. |
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Fujinon-E 50/3.5
First generation Japanese orthometar enlarger lens (predecessor of Fujinon-EP). |
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Fujinon-E 75/5.6
First generation Japanese orthometar enlarger lens (predecessor of Fujinon-EP). |
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Fujinon-E 90/5.6
First generation Japanese orthometar enlarger lens. |
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Fujinon-EP 105/5.6
Japanese six-element orthometar enlarger lens. Successor to Fujinon-E; predecessor of Fujinon-EX. Multicoated. |
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Fujinon-EP 135/5.6
Japanese six-element orthometar enlarger lens. Successor to Fujinon-E; predecessor of Fujinon-EX. Multicoated. |
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Fujinon-EP 38/4.5
Enlarger lens. Image circle: 43mm. |
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Fujinon-EP 50/3.5
Japanese six-element orthometar enlarger lens. Successor to Fujinon-E; predecessor of Fujinon-EX. Multicoated. |
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Fujinon-EP 75/5.6
Japanese six-element orthometar enlarger lens. Successor to Fujinon-E; predecessor of Fujinon-EX. Multicoated. |
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Fujinon-EP 90/5.6
Japanese six-element orthometar enlarger lens. Successor to Fujinon-E; predecessor of Fujinon-EX. Multicoated. |
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Fujinon-ES 105/4.5
Japanese multicoated Tessar enlarger lens marked ‘FUJI PHOTO OPTICAL CO’ (now Fujifilm). Successor to Fujinar-E. |
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Fujinon-ES 135/4.5
Japanese Tessar enlarger lens: successor to Fujinar-E. |
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Fujinon-ES 50/4
Multicoated Japanese Tessar enlarger lens. Successor to Fujinar-E. Retail price in 1980: 270 francs. |
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Fujinon-ES 75/4.5
Japanese multicoated Tessar enlarger lens. Successor to Fujinar-E. |
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Fujinon-ES 90/4.5
Japanese Tessar enlarger lens – successor to Fujinar-E. |
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Fujinon-EV 145-170/8
Enlarger lens. |
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Fujinon-EX 105/5.6
Plasmat enlarger lens – upgraded version of Fujinon-EP. Outstanding Z1 near and far. Z2 dip. Good corners. |
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Fujinon-EX 135/5.6
Multicoated Plasmat enlarger lens – the 1983 upgrade of Fujinon-EP. |
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Fujinon-EX 50/2.8
EBC-multicoated Plasmat enlarger lens launched in 1983 as an upgrade to Fuji’s Fujinon-EP 50mm f2.8. |
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Fujinon-EX 75/4.5
EBC-multicoated Plasmat enlarger lens that replaced and upgraded Fuji’s Fujinon-EP 75/4.5 in 1983. |
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Fujinon-EX 90/5.6
Plasmat enlarger lens (upgraded version of Fujinon-EP). Diaphragm doesn’t retract fully at maximum aperture. Late serials mysteriously 2g lighter. |
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Fujinon-M 25/2.8
C Mount. Unknown image circle. Review: https://coinimaging.com/fuji25.html |
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Gamma Magnar 55/4.5
Silver Hungarian enlarger lens with black nose. Single coated. Product image by Retrofokusz. |
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Gateco 135/4.5
Black metal enlarger lens. Single coated. |
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Gaumont-Kalee 114/2.2
Silver body English projector lens marked 4.5” Bloomed Projection Lens. SEries K. No 1709 |
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Gaumont-Kalee 121/1.9
Silver body English projector lens marked 4.75” Bloomed Projection Lens |
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Gaumont-Kalee 133.5/1.9
Silver body English projector lens marked 5.25” Bloomed Projection Lens. Series S. Made by Kershaw of Leeds |
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Gaumont-Kalee 165/2.2
Silver body English projector lens marked 6.5” Bloomed Projection Lens |
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Gaumont-Kalee 216/1.9
English projector lens |
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Gaumont-Kalee 225/1.9
English projector lens |
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Gaumont-Kalee 240/1.9
English projector lens |
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Gaumont-Kalee 89/2
Silver body English projector lens marked 3.5” Bloomed Projection Lens. Made by Kershaw of Leeds. |
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General Scientific Super Solmar 133/2.5
Brass body cine projector lens marked 5.25″ No 5018. Probably made by Kollmorgen. Aperture unmarked (estimated). |
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General Scientific Super Solmar 70/1.9
Brass body cine projector lens marked 2.75″. Probably made by Kollmorgen. |
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Gino Anastigmat 50/3.5 [V1]
Japanese-made black enlarger lens with silver mount. [V1] has Circular-10 aperture. AKA Prinz, Hansa [V1], Oxley, et al. |
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Gino Anastigmat 50/3.5 [V2]
Japanese-made black enlarger lens with silver mount. [V2] has Curved-5 aperture with serials seemingly randomly interspersed among [V1] with Circular-10 aperture. AKA Prinz, Hansa [V1], etc |
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Gino Anastigmat 50/4.5
Japanese-made black enlarger lens with silver mount. |
Acknowledgements: The DELTA project wouldn’t have been possible with the naysaying of experienced lens collectors; the death of film; the opposition of my wife; the embezzlement of shady eBay sellers and Japanese auction agents; the re-branders; the same 50/3.5 seen in a thousand guises; the unhelpful attitide of extant manufacturers who jettisoned their history without a backward glance (Schneider, Rodenstock et al); the corporations who swallow the legacies of decades without concern for their preservation; the disregard of librarians and archivists who no longer value photographic publications; the copyright laws prohibiting reproduction of adverts advertising things no longer made, once made by people and companies that no longer exist; the museums failing to digitise their collections and refusing to grant access to material rotting unseen in their basements; the sheer bloody-mindedness of Agfa serial numbers; the arrogance of those who have previously written about alt.lenses and imagine their sayings to be unalterably definitive, despite being patently erroneous; widespread dementia and death befalling a generation of those with inside knowledge of the industry; widespread withering of the information internet and the rise of regurgitated AI gobbledygook; the majority of used camera dealers who regard these lenses as pointless relics and have no interest in deploying them as taking lenses and regard their slow-moving stock as an irritation; clueless marketing people devoid of specific product knowledge; an overwhelming majority of photographers apathetic about the benefits and possibilities of alt.lenses; the publishers who failed to express an interest in a book deal; the army of DIY botchers who took their lenses apart and didn’t know how to put them back together again; a postal system that loses packages as a normal happenstance; and all the fungus. Against this tide stand we few. You know who you are. Thank you.