Re: Lens to produce vignetted images on 4x5
Oh thats lovely, how large is the image circle that the Lubitel lens puts out?
Re: Lens to produce vignetted images on 4x5
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Originally Posted by
paulbarden
Personally I think that a much better effect you get by using a circular frame passe- partout. The amount of the black corners is visually disturbing.
Re: Lens to produce vignetted images on 4x5
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Originally Posted by
locutus
Oh thats lovely, how large is the image circle that the Lubitel lens puts out?
Dunno, really. But I can attest to the fact that it just barely made it as far as the edges on the 4" side.
Re: Lens to produce vignetted images on 4x5
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Originally Posted by
Pfsor
Personally I think that a much better effect you get by using a circular frame passe- partout. The amount of the black corners is visually disturbing.
I didn't say I LOVE this effect - I am just providing the OP evidence that the Lubitel's lens did pretty much what he wanted to accomplish on 4X5. This image was just a proof of concept - its not a technique I currently have a use for.
Re: Lens to produce vignetted images on 4x5
Re: Lens to produce vignetted images on 4x5
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Randy Moe
You could do it all in post.
Most people choose Adobe.
Prior generations had mechanical and enlarging solutions.
BESELER 57MVT 5X7 DIFFUSION & VIGNETTING ENLARGER
I had one of these for a short time. It has 4 corner lights that can be adjusted to create vignettes while enlarging. It would burn in the corners.
I now regret I let it go. Seeking
For reasons I can't explain yet, I continue to print "straight" in the darkroom. While manipulating exposure, contrast, dodging and burning of the image, I don't do any further fussing. I want as much as possible to be in the negative when it comes to vignette for instance. Same goes for fiddling with filters or devices to create an effect. I suppose I want the vignetting to be mindless. Maybe.
Anyways, I purchased a Kodak Ektar 105mm f/3.7 Lens mounted in a Flash Supermatic Shutter a few hours ago on eBay. Fingers crossed that it will do what I want.
Thanks for the advice -- yours and to everyone else as well.
Re: Lens to produce vignetted images on 4x5
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Originally Posted by
Pfsor
Personally I think that a much better effect you get by using a circular frame passe- partout. The amount of the black corners is visually disturbing.
Funny how we see things. What disturbs you most I find intriguing. Lovely image. Has the strange, voyeuristic feel I seek.
Re: Lens to produce vignetted images on 4x5
Options are always good.
Just checked your link. I like the winterized scooter. I have ridden year round in Chicago, then it was an R75/5 long and short frame. Windjammer and bags. Now my circulation is poor. Cold extremities getting colder.
Yet, I rode my Honda PCX 150 yesterday and hope my left hand can use the clutch on my Sporty soon.
20 years ago I rode in Chicago Scooter rallies on a Velosolex just to out-nerd them. The only way to keep them in sight was to never stop, full blast at 18 mph at all times. And pedalling! Exercise.
200+ bikes so far. I want a Svartpilen, but to do that I need to sell a camera. :(
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Originally Posted by
Steve Williams_812
For reasons I can't explain yet, I continue to print "straight" in the darkroom. While manipulating exposure, contrast, dodging and burning of the image, I don't do any further fussing. I want as much as possible to be in the negative when it comes to vignette for instance. Same goes for fiddling with filters or devices to create an effect. I suppose I want the vignetting to be mindless. Maybe.
Anyways, I purchased a Kodak Ektar 105mm f/3.7 Lens mounted in a Flash Supermatic Shutter a few hours ago on eBay. Fingers crossed that it will do what I want.
Thanks for the advice -- yours and to everyone else as well.
Re: Lens to produce vignetted images on 4x5
Nothing surprising for me - there are as many personal tastes as there are persons.
Re: Lens to produce vignetted images on 4x5
One thing to consider is how abrupt you want the fall-off to be...
With IC's different f-stops (from wide open to tiny closed down) will change this, as well as the shades/masks suggested... For IC effects, a lens with little obstructions on the edges but a clear path to the lens/iris will create more gradual edges from natural falloff rather than a abrupt line from obstructions at the barrel edges etc...
There's also burning in the edges while printing by cutting a card with a "sunray" or "explosion" shape, a piece of coat hanger as a handle, and keep it moving in front of the printing paper while enlarging for a few timer pops...
Emmet Gowin did quite a few LF vignetted image series, and HP Robinson developed a style for "naturalistic" pictorialism using this as an element of "natural" seeing around this...
Steve K