[Leica] Testing Large Format Soft Focus lenses

[Alan Magayne-Roshak]

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.
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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.

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Luckily, my self-modified "Velmar" gives the same sort of smoothness on
35mm or APS-C.
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-- 
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/

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