[Leica] Testing Large Format Soft Focus lenses

[Don Dory]

The latest acquisition works very well at being"bad".  Your second lens may
improve in badness by shimming at the shutter to move the rear or front
group a few thousandths.

On Tue, Sep 3, 2019, 5:11 AM Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com>
wrote:

> OK, please do not criticize the model, as these are "selfies", testing a
> couple soft focus lens I have (actually, I probably have too many SF
> lens....)
>
> This image is from an 8" Rexo Pictorialist I just got from a Russian
> photog. It comes with an adapter for Copal 3S, which I do not have, but I
> duck-taped the adapter to a Copal 3 shutter for testing. As expected, F4
> and 5.6 are very soft, but the F8 looks good. Some sharpening applied etc.
> The bokeh is really nice with very round aperture.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/richardman/LF201909AA-F01.jpg.html
>
> This image is from the 150mm Congo SF, also at F8. Much contrasty, which is
> nice in its own way. This lens uses the Copal aperture, so not as round.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/richardman/LF201909AB-F03.jpg.html
>
>
>
> I also have 3 100-years old Cooke triplets of different focal length, and
> the incomparable Cooke PS945. Yea,... too many soft focus lens.
>
> Film is Shanghai GP3, soaked in Xtol.
>
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