Imagon lenses and landscapes

[ImSoNegative]

does anyone here use one of these lenses for landscape work?

[AJ Edmondson]

Now and then (but not very often) ... only when I am going for the soft-focus effect. I can't say that I have ever used it stopped-down as a "normal" lens despite the fact that it can be used that way according to the instruction guide.

Joel

[Thomas Greutmann]

I use the imagon (250 and 200 on 4x5) occasionally for landscape work.

Any specific questions that you want to know? The Imagon is certainly a peculiar lens diva, and it is easy to be disappointed with the results. I find that only on very few occasions the Imagon really delivers full Quality pictures. The imagon works best for me in high contrast situations with strong and small highlights next to dark shades, like rays of sunlight through the leaves in a wood, sometimes also sunlight reflections on water taken against the sunshine. I find it is a real summer lens, in winter the light is hardly ever strong enough to produce the contrast.

Greetings, Thomas

[ImSoNegative]

Thanks for the information

[ImSoNegative]

I was just wondering about it I figured it would work well in higher contrast situations I really like it as a portrait lens what I don't like is the weird highlight things caused from the strainers

[ScottPhotoCo]

Check out some of forum member Mark Woods work. He's done some quite beautiful work with his Imagon. One of the reasons I bought one.

[ImSoNegative]

Thanks Scott I will check it out

[tgtaylor]

Not a landscape, but here is a distant cityscape shot with a 250mm Imagon on an 8x10 Toyo with a 4x5 reducing back:



It was necessarily taken around high noon so that the sun would be illuminating the Ferry Building at the foot of Market street. In it the building appear "soft" and somewhat dreamy (painterly?). I shot this same composition a few years back a day after a major rain storm washed the atmosphere with a 150mm Apo Sironar-S and UV filter and the print is so sharp that you can take a strong loupe to it to see the people in their cars.

This is a scan of an untoned 8x10 print on Ilford Art 300 paper. I'm debating whether or not to spend the money upgrading the Epson 3200 software so that it will work on 64 bit OS or put it towards the purchase of a... new Epson 750.

Thomas

[uphereinmytree]

I use a 200mm and a 300mm outdoors, but not really for landscapes. They are my favorites, but I only shoot infrared film. I never use the strainers and in a compound shutter they are f4.5 wide open. I stop down some sometimes. the cement mixer shot is a 200mm on 4x5 at 5.6ish
The tower shot is a 300mm on 8x10 wide open and no strainers

[evan clarke]

Yup, Have 4 of them and four Fujis which are similar