I Just Now "Fully" Realized That I Do NOT Like...

[E. von Hoegh]

Do you mean... *dramatic pause*... even the dagor?

Sssshhhhh. Someone might be reading....

[Emil Schildt]

Personally, I think the aperture shape is not that important, unless you have echoes of the shape in flares in the image, or the shape is radically different as with an Imagon's discs. The look from a Verito in a Studio Shutter (with a saw-tooth-ragged aperture) is as nice as from a Verito in a barrel with a very round aperture. But some very knowledgeable folks disagree...

look at this aperture: guaranteed to get you real ugly background!! (Unless you make christmas cards...)

[Old-N-Feeble]

gandolphi... Any example pics from that lens with razor blade aperture? What the heck is it anyway?

[Mark Sawyer]

That's the old Penrose Hilite lens. People argue over whether it's a soft focus lens or a process lens. I don't know if it was ever resolved... What does that thing do, Emil?

The Verito came with some really wild stops too:

[dap]

look at this aperture: guaranteed to get you real ugly background!! (Unless you make christmas cards...)

That reminds me of the sliding cross type blades on the 35mm "dreamagon" lens

[Emil Schildt]

That's the old Penrose Hilite lens. People argue over whether it's a soft focus lens or a process lens. I don't know if it was ever resolved... What does that thing do, Emil?

The Verito came with some really wild stops too:

Mark: yes - I bought it as a soft focus lens, but I am now rather sure it isn't anything like that....
Looking at the GG outside makes me think of Christmas - background full of little stars...

The lens have a normal working aperture as well - I think it might be a dual purpose lens, and the torture like aperture was for enlarging.

Only a guess, but...

It looks cool though..

[John Kasaian]

I have no doubt that Commercial Ektars can accomplish this. Those of you who have experience with them; Do you think their nice out-of-focus rendering is due largely to their rounder apertures?

I don't think I can afford later model coated Dagors.

You don't really need a coated Dagor, IMHO, the older uncoated the better.
Commercial Ektars rock, IMO, whatever Kingslake did to them, he done good.
Also Wollensak Velostigmat series 2 are very nice in the sharp/bokeh dept.
My opinion---and worth every dime, LOL!

[Louis Pacilla]

That's the old Penrose Hilite lens. People argue over whether it's a soft focus lens or a process lens. I don't know if it was ever resolved... What does that thing do, Emil?

The Penrose was a Special Process lens.

[Mark Sawyer]

The Penrose was a Special Process lens.

Thank you, Louis! Were those blades for rendering a particular effect in the half-tones?

[David R Munson]

Is there such a thing as razor sharp with pretty bokeh?

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