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Jim Galli
Breaking in a NEW soft focus lens today. I'll just show images and not throw lens names around. I was favorably impressed. The ground glass was telling me this lens has a ton of possibilities. And when I pulled the 5 quick 8X10's out of the soup, I was pretty excited. See what y'all think. These are just grabs from upstairs in my messy studio. Just something to have a first lookt.
Could it be the Wollensak Royal Portrait?? Lovely image quality!
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Jim - that kettle has some serious glow! Must be some sort of radiation! Love it!
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rrunnertexas
Jim - that kettle has some serious glow! Must be some sort of radiation! Love it!
You may be onto something. The one lens that got us into trouble out at work when we sent it to re-app (it was tripping their meters because of rare earth glass) was a Wollensak similar to this one ;~'))
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OK, the big reveal. All four of you. The lens is a 15" Wollensak Telephoto with the rear group removed and the front facing the film. Cost me $63 bucks with shipping and tax. Don't you love paying tax on yard sale ebay stuff now? With no rear group and reversed direction it becomes an 11" f7 lens. But the shutter can be used as before, just not the aperture scale.
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Neat, I was curious as that does look very nice. And bonus, I have an unloved 15" Wolly Tele so...I'll have to see if I can find a shutter it fits in.
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Very interesting
This is making my Speed more useful
:)
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Jim Galli
OK, the big reveal. All four of you. The lens is a 15" Wollensak Telephoto with the rear group removed and the front facing the film. Cost me $63 bucks with shipping and tax. Don't you love paying tax on yard sale ebay stuff now? With no rear group and reversed direction it becomes an 11" f7 lens. But the shutter can be used as before, just not the aperture scale.
Thanks for that info, Jim! There are interesting lenses to be had for under $100 if you care to take a chance occasionally. The 10" f4.5 Kodak Anastigmat I got recently cost me $50 (plus a few bucks for shipping) and it turned out to be far more useful than I imagined.
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Jim Galli
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These need to go together to give an idea of how firm this lens gets @f22
I get it. These are for pretty serious soft focus geeks. That's why I didn't waste a bunch of space in other threads.
These are the types of images I am attempting to get as I fool around with various lens combos. Thanks Jim