HELIAR: here they are..

[Emil Schildt]

Pictures, that is..
I have several heliar lenses, and there is a lot of talk about these lenses and how great they are..

On occasion we see an image made with a heliar, but I miss a thread, where all the images submitted are done with a heliar lens.

I would like to have a place, where I could go to see - wonder - and show students and others what the fuss is all about..

So show your Heliar images here.
(Heliar/Dynar/universal heliar)


I look foreward to see some amazing stuff.

[eddie]

Pictures, that is..
I have several heliar lenses, and there is a lot of talk about these lenses and how great they are..

On occasion we see an image made with a heliar, but I miss a thread, where all the images submitted are done with a heliar lens.

I would like to have a place, where I could go to see - wonder - and show students and others what the fuss is all about..

So show your Heliar images here.
(Heliar/Dynar/universal heliar)


I look forward to see some amazing stuff.

you forgot to post your image......

[Emil Schildt]

you forgot to post your image......

no I didn't...

As said, I have a bundle of these lenses, but actually not too many images (yet).

[Ken Lee]

Amazing stuff ? Probably not. But nice, perhaps.

Here are two portraits, at a size which at least shows the look. Both were made with a old single-coated 210mm Braunschweig Heliar, on 4x5 TMY.

One Two

Here are a few 4x5 flower shots. These were probably made with an uncoated 150mm Heliar, but I can't be sure because I don't take notes.

One Two

I have a few images made with a 300mm on 5x7 if you'd like. What I like about them is that they open to f/4.5, so are easy to focus, they are very sharp when desired, and have some slightly exaggerated aberrations when open past f/8. These shots were all made at f/8 or smaller. I don't care much for "portrait lenses" or the "wide open" look - but I do appreciate the more understated mixture of qualities, which these lenses give.

[Emil Schildt]

Amazing stuff ? Probably not. But nice, perhaps.

Here are two portraits at a size which at least shows the look. Both made with an old 210mm Braunschweig Heliar, on 4x5 TMY.

One

Two

Thanks Ken.

now - this is what I mean..

great images, to show why you love the heliar's.

Great images Ken. I like the rendering of the pictures.

[Bill_1856]

An interestng paradox: prints from a Heliar appear incredibly sharp, yet if the negative is examined under magnification it appears soft. I don't understand it at all.

[Dan Fromm]

An interestng paradox: prints from a Heliar appear incredibly sharp, yet if the negative is examined under magnification it appears soft. I don't understand it at all.

Bill, this is what people say about shots taken with the legendary 105/3.7 Ektar, a Heliar type. I've had two, of which I still have one, and I can't honestly say that I see the effect. They're just plain soft.

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

[Bill_1856]

Bill, this is what people say about shots taken with the legendary 105/3.7 Ektar, a Heliar type. I've had two, of which I still have one, and I can't honestly say that I see the effect. They're just plain soft.

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, my 105/3.7 Ektar makes prints so sharp that I'm afraid of cutting myself if I handle it, but the negative definitely looks mushy. Very strange. I don't know what it would look like if it were scanned.

[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

[mgeiss]

30cm/4.5 @f/8
Efke 25 8x10" in Pyrocat HD