Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/10/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Oct 17, 2017, at 4:15 PM, Montie <montoid at earthlink.net> wrote: > > Concur, can we say, "Edsel"? > > Montie > >> They have a nostalgic look to them but I would guess it's nothing you >> couldn't do digitally if you wanted to. ======================================================================================= Seems like a lot of work to recreate something a lens can do in one step. I'm partly a pictorialist, and I like using my Wollensak Verito and my home-made Thambar substitute (the Velmar) for some pictures. I don't think every photo has to be super-sharp. I like what George said: >Digital ?effects? >Optical ?effects? >generally fail >in the same way >that digital ?effects >trying to mimic >Drawing and/or Painting ?effects? >generally fail. >The Rodenstock Imagon lenses and Thambar and the like >achieve their effects in unique ways. >You may not like them or their effects; >yet they do draw unique images. >And the Imagons can deliver tack sharp to numerous >different types of softness along with glowing highlights. I did a comparison test once, using a very detailed mannikin with a wig. I shot it with a 135mm f/4.5 Hektor straight, the Hektor + a DUTO #1, a DUTO #2, a piece of window screen, and then with my 135mm f/4.5 modified Elmar (what I call the Velmar) Each variation was different, but my favorite was the Velmar. There was a sharp image overlaid with a glow in the highlights that I found appealing. It's the same look that I get with the 9" f/4 Wollensak Verito on my 4x5 RB Graflex. Here's the same woman photographed with these two lenses. < http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Portraits/Glamour2005_AMR.jpg.html > < http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Portraits/Glamour05_Velmar_AMR.jpg.html > Another with the Verito. < http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Portraits/Francisco_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