Newly made large format dry plates available! Look:
https://www.pictoriographica.com
I have the 90mm Dreamagon from Seibold and the 120 mm Imagon from Rodenstock with a T2 Adapter for my Nikon including my digital Nikons! I'm a lucky guy;--)))
Cheers Armin
Then there's the Sima 100mm f2 soft focus/macro. Very inexpensive (cheap) single element plastic, sliding tube focusing, kinda like a Lensbaby, uses a T mount, so it can be made to fit most 35mm or dslr's.
Wide open it's too soft for most subjects, f5.6 or f8 (they use aperture discs) is more to my liking.
Keh currently has one listed for $35... with a Nikon T mount.
I have the Canon 135mm telephoto lens with softfocus settings, and I will try to post some examples later. But one thing to think about - I also have the Canon 135mm f/2L lens, which of course is not a soft focus lens. But when used wide open, it gives a beautifully short depth of field and out of focus bokeh, which is sometimes a better effect than an overall softfocus lens.
In the image sharing forum there is a thread (called "Wide f***ing open" or something like that) which demostrates how that can work effectively for LF work as well.
From the OP; I've been looking for small classic era soft focus lenses
Old Cine soft focus lenses are like hens teeth. The modern non-achromatic simple meniscii don't get the job done (imesho)
I probably posted these somewhere here already. Not a classic, but easy to find is the Mamiya 150SF for the RB67 platform:
And the same lens mounted onto a modified 4x5 camera
Alan, I like 2 and 3. I have a 'hard' time with mine. Never happy.
Great images.
Tin Can
Thanks Randy,
I don't shoot this lens enough to get really consistent. All too often I tend to backfocus just slightly, especially using it on the 4x5. I think I've exposed 3 or 4 negatives and got the one keeper above. As most people have written, I like it better wide open with no disc (center image) than w. disk.
Here's a digital capture with a Lensbaby. I've had it for many years but just haven't played much with it.
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