Oh thats lovely, how large is the image circle that the Lubitel lens puts out?
Oh thats lovely, how large is the image circle that the Lubitel lens puts out?
Buy this used. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produ...lens_hood.html
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.
Steve Williams
Scooter in the Sticks
Steve Williams
Scooter in the Sticks
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.
Nothing surprising for me - there are as many personal tastes as there are persons.
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
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