Pan Focus

Of all the photographic equipment I have owned over the last 60 years, this tiny lens is truly an odd piece of photographic gear.

Designed over 40 years ago, this lens was meant for the Pentax 110, a miniature single-lens-reflex camera that used 110 film. Whereas modern lenses have all sorts of tricks, this lens has a Zen simplicity. No focusing and no aperture adjustment, just frame and shoot. With the advent of modern mirrorless cameras, its adaptability has given it new life as a one-trick pony that forces the photographer to adjust to its limitations:

I recently took it to the neighborhood car show where it worked perfectly:

It turns my Pentax Q7 into an Instamatic: