Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net>wrote: >Long ago I bought a Rodenstock Imagon 200mm lens.? It came in a case >with three attachments that looked like sink strainers.? The idea was >that you could rotate these and get various levels of softness, or >"glow" as they called it. =========================================================================== My problem with the Imagon system is that you get multiple points of sparkle in the out of focus image. I prefer my Verito, which gives a creamy transition to the "glow". After some experimenting when I first got it, I fitted my own round f/11 aperture into the lens to supercede the scallops of the combo f/stop and shutter that mine has. I only use f/11 with this lens; not too harsh, and not too mushy - just right. < http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Portraits/Francisco_AMR.jpg.html > < http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Portraits/Glamour2005_AMR.jpg.html > Luckily, my self-modified "Velmar" gives the same sort of smoothness on 35mm or APS-C. < http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Portraits/Glamour05_Velmar_AMR.jpg.html > -- Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services (Retired) UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978 UPAA Master of the Profession 2014 amr3 at uwm.edu http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt