HELIAR: here they are..

[Emil Schildt]

I FINALLY got lucky!!

Even though I am so thankfull for Steven to loan me his Universal-heliar, I still wanted one for my self...
..and got it!

In almost mint condition.

Here are the two first tries.

Kristina was my pationt model.

First one with the soft focus turned on 4:



and here on full soft (5)

Both done on F 5.6 on 13x18cm film



I am going to use this lens a lot!!

[Zaitz]

Wow those are great, especially the first.

[Asher Kelman]

I also shoot Apo-Saphirs, which are (choose one) graphic arts Heliars or Apo-Skopars (same thing even though jes' plain Skopars are tessar types) and they're sharp as can be.

But then, I was born ignorant and am a birthright barbarian.

Cheers,

Dan

Dan,

For someone who was born ignorant, you managed to corner a lot of the Apo-Saphirs! hope you can post pictures!

Asher

[russyoung]

beautiful images, Emil. I was pretty unconvinced that a Universal was worth its weight in palladium but you have proven the point. thanks.

russ

[Emil Schildt]

beautiful images, Emil. I was pretty unconvinced that a Universal was worth its weight in palladium but you have proven the point. thanks.

russ

I don' tknow th egoing rate for palladium these days... But this lens is a keeper for sure!
Not only is is in a beautiful state, with handles and everything - it looks also so nice in sharp mode...

If I only had to have one lens.... this would be a good choise..

[Jay Decker]

Sharon

8x10 Kodak 2D
36cm Heliar - Wide Open
8x10 Efke 25 in HC-110
Kennewick, WA

[Alex Hollmann]

Taken with 36cm Voigtländer Heliar on 8X10 of my son in his favourite costume. I don't remember the f stop, but probably f8 - f11. I love this lens, but it's hard to take pictures of a 5 yr old with it without any shutter.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexhol...in/photostream

[thrice]

Is this deliberately stereoscopic Jay? If I go cross-eyed and sit far enough back it's quite 3D

Enjoyed a little time playing around with "The Photographer" on the light table this afternoon and found how well some of my older lenses compare to modern lenses... the image on the left was taken with a Universal Heliar and the image on the right was taken with a G-Claron. The G-Claron image is sharper, but the Heliar holds it own - even close uip.

[Jay Decker]

Is this deliberately stereoscopic Jay? If I go cross-eyed and sit far enough back it's quite 3D

Nope. Just swapped lens on the old 8x10 Century Universal Camera...

[Asher Kelman]

Is this deliberately stereoscopic Jay? If I go cross-eyed and sit far enough back it's quite 3D

To judge this, it could be better to have the same background projected as that impacts our experience of depth.

Asher