[Leica] Testing Large Format Soft Focus lenses

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Lovely shot
Cheers
Jayanand

On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 12:17 AM Ken Carney via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> Here is one from years later, with the 8x10 camera.  Age has added a few
> wrinkles...
>
> Ken
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/kcarney/Scan-130615-0001rev2014-Edit.jpg.html
>
> On 9/3/2019 1:16 PM, Philippe via LUG wrote:
> > Works, whatever the fog was ;-)
> >
> > Amities
> >
> > Philippe
> >
> >
> >
> >> Le 3 sept. 2019 à 19:01, Ken Carney via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> a
> écrit :
> >>
> >> 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.  The person I bought it from had used it for portraits, but
> with older subjects you got the worst of all worlds, soft wrinkles.  The
> Rodenstock importer sent me a copy of "The Book of the Imagon" and it turns
> out that another use was for atmospheric shots, such as fog.
> >>
> >> Here is one of my wife, Susan.
> >>
> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/kcarney/Susan_Mo_010903.jpg.html
> >>
> >> Ken
> >>
> >> On 9/3/2019 10:09 AM, Don Dory via LUG wrote:
> >>> 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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