Quote Originally Posted by paulbarden View Post
A few years ago a friend gave me a badly damaged 105mm Schneider Xenotar lens in a barrel. The front element was badly scuffed up - it looked as if someone had taken steel wool to the glass! I mounted it in a shutter, put it on my Intrepid 4x5 and use it as a kind of "soft focus" lens (with vignetting, as its usable image circle isn't enough to properly cover 4x5). I like what I get from it - It's got a specific feel.
You got it.

Some of these shots were taken with very old, very simple lenses from very old, very broken cameras -- very cheaply, I might add. Websites like these can be hard to find on the web because if you search for "close-up lenses" or "supplementary filters", you undoubtedly end up with tons of macro shots.

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