Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Works, whatever the fog was ;-) Amities Philippe > Le 3 sept. 2019 ? 19:01, Ken Carney via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> a > ?crit : > > 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. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information