Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 4/16/2010 4:01 PM, George Lottermoser wrote: > <http://i.huffpost.com/gen/158162/LAURA-BUSH.jpg> > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > george at imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > Long ago, in the age of film, before Photoshop, I bought a 250 mm Rodenstock Imagon lens for my Linhof 4x5 field camera. I had thought about trying some portraits, and this was supposed to be the ultimate "portrait" lens. It had a series of diffusing disks, looking like sink strainers, that went in front of the front glass element. I immediately saw the worst of all worlds, i.e., soft wrinkles. The importer was kind enough to send me the only copy of a book written on the lens so I could copy it, and it became apparent it was designed for "atmospheric" images, e.g., fog. That was before the mall places where you could get the full Stepford effect. Ken Carney Oklahoma City, Oklahoma