Soft Focus from a landscape lens and Happy Holidays

[CCHarrison]

I took a tiny f/16 brass landscape lens I have (9x12cm coverage), unscrewed the front fixed aperture stop mounted in front of the barrel to expose the element to a wide open amount of light at about f/7. Basically, converting the little brassie from a slow, capable landscape lens to a "rapid" soft focus lens featuring oodles of aberrations and flare... I mounted the lens to a macro bellows rail that mounts to my Canon digital camera....

Nobody was home, so Santa became my model. And some out of focus Xmas lights too....


Happy Holidays.


Dan


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[goamules]

Great Dan, have a Merry Christmas.

[ic-racer]

I have one of these, I'll have to try that. http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showpost.php?p=326587&postcount=14