Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >