Rodenstock Scitex S-3 4.9/67. Center and corner 100% crop.
Rodenstock Scitex S-3 4.9/67. Center and corner 100% crop.
Surf, what am I to conclude from your tiny fuzzy images?
You can compare optical resolution and optical aberrations of the lenses in my setup, that is simple and common.Originally Posted by Dan Fromm
Not with the tiny fuzzy scans you posted.
It's like a brain cells - they are tiny and fuzzy. But... OK.
We will continue: Rodenstock-Magnagon-75mm-f5.6. Center and corner 100% crop.
And if you go stitching 1x with Magnagon, you will get something like that (camera jpg, flip-crop-save only). Center and corner 100% crop.
Finally: Rodenstock Scitex S-3 f5.0, 110mm. Center and corner 100% crop. I expected it to be better.
Scitex Smarts were made when there were no usable PhSh and nobody planned to make stitches. The main media for images was 120 film and larger (books, magazines). So we have the best performing lens 89mm and it's for 6x6, 6x9. Another good performer is 80mm - and it was made for stitching BW large film photoforms. It has good center and corner sharpness, but suffers from pink tint a bit, that is no issue in BW.
Rodenstock Magnagon is from another era: XY and stitching scanners. One scanner had only one lens, but it was very good. It will be nice to test Scitex LFOV lens, that is in EverSmart scanners. They say it's one of the best.
How would you rate those lenses? I will position them that way (first=best):
1. Magnagon 5.6/75
2. Scitex S-3 5.0/89
3. Rodagon 5.6/80
4. Scitex S-3 5.0/110
5. Scitex S-3 4.9/67
I have two Magnagons. First, there is a Linos, serial number 11922735. Second is a Rodenstock 11619890.
“You often feel tired, not because you've done too much, but because you've done too little of what sparks a light in you.”
― Alexander Den Heijer, Nothing You Don't Already Know
For what it's worth, the Magnagon 75mm fixed at f8 is used in the Hasselblad X5 (and the rest of the Imacons?).
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