There was at one point a Burke and James version.
There was at one point a Burke and James version.
I've had an 18" for decades and love it, but the aperture blades keep falling apart and it is miserable to re-assemble. I've tried to get several of my camera repair friends to assemble them but they just laugh and say, "you do it".
Lynn
Mine looks like Steve's. And since we're at it, a shot taken with it:
Also linked some goody, a scan of a brochure I recently got from a dear friend...
http://www.macrolenses.de/bilder/Spe...s Brochure.pdf
Klaus
http://www.macrolenses.de for macro and special lens info
http://www.pbase.com/kds315/ for UV Images and lens/filter info
http://photographyoftheinvisibleworld.blogspot.com/ my UV diary
Here is an ad on the Spencer Pictorial Portrait Lens
Dan
Antique & Classic Camera Blog
www.antiquecameras.net/blog.html
Thanks Klaus and CC! Very useful info. Congratulations on the super colour effect - set up at F5.6 perhaps? I didn't really register Russ's earlier comments that the 18" covers 14x17" - but both your sources say the same. I will lug my Sinar out into the garden when the weather here gets a bit more stable! But I can only manage B/W and 8x10.
Well Jim,
these words from you, "the master", makes me blush...!!! I wanted to re-create that old still life painterly "effect" and that lens helps a lot to get closer to what I wanted. The partly wilted flowers also helped. It was just a test shot set-up in a few minutes after I had received the lens from Sydney, but honestely I was very positively surprised, too.
And now I'm still looking for a Hanovia KALOSAT - darn hard to locate one...any ideas??
@Steve: it is stopped down a bit more, maybe f8, since otherwise the result was a bit too undefined (for me).
Klaus
http://www.macrolenses.de for macro and special lens info
http://www.pbase.com/kds315/ for UV Images and lens/filter info
http://photographyoftheinvisibleworld.blogspot.com/ my UV diary
Nice one! Did you blow the highlights on purpose for a high-key look?
Klaus
http://www.macrolenses.de for macro and special lens info
http://www.pbase.com/kds315/ for UV Images and lens/filter info
http://photographyoftheinvisibleworld.blogspot.com/ my UV diary
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