Camera and Lens Reviews — setadel studios

Originally redesigned from the regular Elmarit. This beautiful lens has been perfected with an all new shorter and sweeter mount. No larger then some 50mm. This Mandler 5 element design is all you would need and the true essence of keeping your Leica system small and compact. I particularly like the chrome examples and I especially love the fact that they have all been made in Canada (something to be proud of). The built quality is the best of all the Elmarit design lenses. All brass body, when Leica later went to aluminum bodies on the 2nd version. They just don't...

This camera is not everyone’s cup of tea, but “green” tea is one of the most consumed in the world! The wild wonderful world of Leica special editions…it’s a jungle out there! The shade of green with the contrast silver chrome preview lever, shutter speed dial, and shutter release button, along with the classic M-P classic style script on the top plate make this a camera I couldn’t help falling in love with. Matched with my beige Billingham Leica bag with the green interior I found the perfect walk around camera set. You have to match this camera with chrome...

The benchmark and ultimate special edition Rolleiflex camera. Lizard skin and platinum finish on this historic TLR camera. All the vintage and classic characteristics, no light meter, retro waist level design with a phenomenal HFT newly coded Zeiss Planar 80mm F2.8 lens. One of my personal favourite medium format cameras. One of the only cameras that you do not have to be looking in the direction of the subject when taking a picture. Although this flashy camera might catch the eye of some subjects. There aren't too many Rolleiflex special editions and this one is particularly pretty and understated. There is...

I have always had a fascination with the moon. Its 28 day cycle, its relation to the ocean and its mysteriousness. NASA had many Apollo missions and some were lucky enough to be accompanied by the Hasselblad lunar cameras and celebrating Hasselblad's 20 years in space they made the affordable and beautiful 500 ELM moon camera. A replica of the original lunar mission cameras of the 1960s and 1970s. The vintage Zeiss C T* lenses are unequal. Even an inexperienced eye will see the quality that this lens has. Not only as a display piece, but this camera performs marvellously. I...

If there was one lens and one lens only, this would be the one. Not only revolutionary in its time, but will set the stage for all future lenses. It is the first aspherical Leica lens ever made as well as a nocturnal lens and an earth shattering 1.2 f-stop. Perfectly designed in every way with its shape, size and finish. Classic scalloped shaped focusing ring. Small, subtle and well balanced on any Leica M camera. Perfectly finished in the classic anodized black. Some very few prototype examples were made in Silver chrome. What I would do to have one of those...