Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/09/03

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Subject: [Leica] Testing Large Format Soft Focus lenses
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2019 03:10:16 -0700
 
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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