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And there is a continued and growing interest in finding ways to recapture and revivify the lenses’ material history. In what feels to this author like a markedly material response to the digital environment, the use of vintage lenses for modern use, and their extensive testing, is an alive and well practice. In what’s something of a return to the era before lenses became classified as cinema lenses, video channels like The Media Division Lens Archive and Weird Lenses adapt a range of lenses – still, cinematic, projection alike – for the purpose of capturing images.