Soft-Focus Lens Examples

[drarmament]

5x7 enlarged to 16x20

Great sitter after 8 hours

15 years ago

IMG_0028 by TIN CAN COLLEGE, on Flickr

Beautiful.


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[djdister]

What lens was used for this?

5x7 enlarged to 16x20

Great sitter after 8 hours

15 years ago

IMG_0028 by TIN CAN COLLEGE, on Flickr

[Tin Can]

Cooke 10" Knuckler SF WO

What lens was used for this?

[drew.saunders]

I picked up a Fujinon-SF 180/5.6 with just the yellow disk in great shape a couple months ago and have finally developed and scanned the first handful of negatives with it. This one seems to show the "glow" well, in part because of the extreme range between the very well lit (and "glowy") flowers, and the dark background:


12-03-2024-02 by Drew Saunders, on Flickr

Wide open at f/5.6, no disk. I tried focusing on the flowers on the right, not sure how well I nailed focus, which is often difficult with soft focus lenses, as most people posting here well know.

This one has the yellow disk, wide open at "5.6" but ends up at f/8 with the disk, plus a Lee Orange #21 filter to darken the sky quite a bit:

12-03-2024-04 by Drew Saunders, on Flickr

[MartyJoelFrank]

Here are 2 8x10 kallitypes, each made with an 11 1/2" Wollensak Verito SF lens @ F6 or so
Comments, questions, suggestions are welcome!
-Marty Frank