What can you tell me about the Fujinon 250mm soft focus lens?
Does anyone know of any example photos?
What can you tell me about the Fujinon 250mm soft focus lens?
Does anyone know of any example photos?
Here is a link to some images made with a 180 Fujinon SFS lens, at close distance on 4x5 film. (No disk).
These lenses have very nice blur rendition. Shhh, don't tell anyone about these lenses.
When stopped down more, they are quite sharp.
Last edited by Ken Lee; 12-Jun-2018 at 03:54.
I would think that they are pretty much the same as a Rodenstock Imagon except the Imagon is 250mm. They both use "strainers" to achieve the soft focus effect.
They're really not even in the same ball park as far as a true diffused focus type lens. The Imagon is a achromatic meniscus with iris in front and is a SCREAMING diffused focus lens with no disks i place. In fact most of us use the Imagon w/out the disk in place. While the Fujinon 250 f5.6 SF is a semi sharp triplet with no strainers in place and really just looks soft as in not critically sharp but not glowing or showing sharp image with overlapping glow but when used w/out strainer it's best stopped down a bit and used as a sharpish triplet. You almost have to have the disk in place on the Fuji to get the glow. With the Imagon and using a comparable disk in place has far more glow then the Fujinon SF w/ approximately same size disk.
There ya go, Ken beat me to it.
Thanks guys! I learned something.
250mm on 4x5
Elona by Sergei Rodionov, on Flickr
Field of dreams by Sergei Rodionov, on Flickr
I dont think i used disk on either one
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