Micheal, I have sold my mamiya 6 gear because I have turned into "soft" ever since I bought an old canon 7 with the F 0.95 50mm lens. When used wide open, it create the images identical to what you have attached. Especially when I do portraiture. The softness is just wild as far as I am concern. I still keep my cambo wide with 47xl for my LF requirements.
Renee
Michael, great shots by the way, especially the first one! Sorry for the off topic
The lens didn't make the photographs, you did, and very nice photographs they are, especially the first one.
Brian Ellis
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you do criticize them you'll be
a mile away and you'll have their shoes.
Michael, You don't need to be asking questions, you need to be giving answers. The shots are great. You can get the same effect with single element lenses mounted in a shutter. I have had good luck with using the "plus" lenses designed for 35mm closeups mounted in a shutter. You have to figure out the f-stops. Good work with the setup you have.
Regards,
Michael, you got me thinking and I removed the rear group from a 100mm 2.8 Xenotar and am doing some tests. At wide apertures it looks very interesting. Sharp........but, not sharp. Covers 4X5 wnd maybe more. About FL 7" that way. The rear group in any tessar may have possibilities too but probably too sharp.
Thanks to everybody for information and I appreciate that you like my pictures. It looks like I need to get old Xenotar or Planar mounted in shutter and remove some glass... I didn't do it myself for the MF camera (it is actually Kiev-60 that I bought ready with the lens modified by a gentleman in Minsk, Belarus). I am rather clumsy, but I'll give it a shot
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