Soft Focus with an ancient achromatic Meniscus lens.

[Jim Galli]

Soft focus is an acquired taste. If you hate it, I have no quarrel. If you love it, you may enjoy having a look at work done with my most recent lens purchase.

It's a little 8 1/4 inch landscape meniscus with a powerful punch.

If anyone knows anything about the LBB & Co. I'd love to learn more about it. The shots on the pages are done wide open. There is no aperture. It has script and was sold with lenses of the Holmes Booth and Haydens era.

Working with a 5X7 Speed Graphic and this lens is wonderfully freeing. No movements to bother with. You simply select the best focus trade off and what you see is...........

sort of.........

what you get. Have fun.

http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com/Mi...oMeniscus.html

[eddie]

yup! love it! that caddy sloper is awesome. you got the eye for sure.

thanks.

[ljsegil]

That is quite a find. Absolutely beautiful stuff!
LJ

[Paul Fitzgerald]

Love the look, just right.

[Brian Bullen]

Very lovely photos Jim, that lens is a keeper for sure!

[Mark Sawyer]

Gorgeous stuff, Jim! I'm not surprised somehow that you can be so at home with these odd old lenses so quickly. And it's like I keep telling you, there's a fine line between a P&S and a POS...

[mandoman7]

Mr. Galli displays a fine blend of the artist and the explorer, getting beautiful images while he's conducting another dialog. Great shots of the ornaments and mirrors, Jim.

[Jeff Graves]

aaaaaaaaagggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

[goamules]

Nice Jim, you really can make these shots glow.

[monkeymon]

you should definitely make a series about those fancy hood ornaments, "lalique ii" is magnificent.