Soft-Focus Lens Examples

[Emil Schildt]

I just LOVE my Cooke series II 3.5 lens

here used for 4x5 FO5 Orthochromatic film...

[Maris Rusis]

Backlit Weeds, Soft Focus

Gelatin-silver photograph on Fomabrom Variant III VC FB photographic paper, image size 19.3cm X 24.6cm, from a 8x10 Fomapan 200 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera fitted with a 300mm f7.5 Wollaston style meniscus lens mounted behind a Copal #3 shutter. Taking this photograph caused camera damage. The sun is just out of frame with the consequence that the sun's image fell on one of the bellows pleats and burned a neat, round, 3 mm hole in the bellows. The camera is beginning to fill with smoke at the moment of exposure.

[cowanw]

That's a special kind of flare!

[barnacle]

Smokin'!

(sorry.)

Neil

[pasiasty]

Chamonix 045F-1
Rodenstock Imagon 250mm, no diffusion disk
Fomapan 100, negative scanned


Chamonix 045F-1
Rodenstock Imagon 250mm, H7.7
Fomapan 100, negative scanned

[cowanw]

W. H. Jackson was a American photographer best known for his pictures of the American West, including views of Yellowstone Park about 1870. Vigorous and healthy into old age he was a technical advisor to the movie "Gone With the Wind" in 1939 at age 96, dying a few years later at age 99.
In 1898, he became president of the Detroit Publishing Company.
Apparently he travelled to Toronto to look at an association with The new University of Toronto publishing company after it was established in 1901.
Here is Jackson at age 58 taken with a 9 1/2 inch Darlot meniscus in a sewer pipe fitted on a Betax shutter; apparently another lens left behind by Floyd in another extraterrestrial lens theft.




On 8x10 negative.

[john wood]

One of the founding doctors of Johns Hopkins was Sir William Osler. He lived from age 8-18 in Dundas, now part of the city where I live.
Here he is in the back garden on a return visit to his old home.
His friend had a handy 8x10 with a 16 inch Voltas at f/8
Attachment 156695

This is beautiful. Love the OOF signature even at f8

[cowanw]

Yes, that lens certainly has the signature of a Petzval. I was surprised.

[cowanw]

Captain Englehorn of the SS Venture was the captain of the ship that brought back the giant ape King Kong. although the poor animal was killed, Captain Englehorn toured the vaudeville theaters and fairs with a Slide show presentation. He headed the bill at the Tivoli in Hamilton for 2 weeks! And stopped for a portrait at A. M. Cunningham's old place just down the street at 3 James Street N.



They used a Vitax at f6 on 8x10 for this.

[cowanw]

Edmund Rice (c. 1594 – 3 May 1663) landed in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in summer or fall of 1638 leaving Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire. I am one of 2.7 million descendants. Amazingly, of all the millions, I am the most like him in facial features. A Velostigmat ll 14inch with diffusion feature at f8.