It was Spacefruit who first introduced me to the lens porn that is an Angenieux lens, a French company whose lenses took the first photos on the moon. In due course I bought the same model lens as Spacefruit and it takes weird but interesting photos.
If you buy a lens nowadays, it comes in a cardboard box, if you are lucky. But in the good old days, Angenieux supplied their lenses in beautiful red boxes. My copy arrived in bubble-wrap, the box having long since disintegrated; but Spacefruit received his in an original box, albeit one that was close to death.
Spacefruit has many talents, not least of which is having a fine taste in commissioning photo books from a brilliant photographer (that would be me); and another is that he knows little men in Chinatown that can replicate pretty much anything.
Which is how it came to pass that he kindly presented me with this alternative to bubble wrap:
I suppose it only takes moderate levels of craftsmanship to knock up a box (not that I could do it); but it takes significant cunning to reproduce the Angenieux logo on the cover.
Beautiful; thank you Spacefruit.
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2011-10-19| TheSon saysGoodness. Looks like you need to find an even more expensive Angenieux to sit within it now, to properly do it justice…
2011-10-19| Spike saysThat would be the F0.95 you promised to buy me for Xmas. Has there ever been a better son?