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Gear Talk => Lens Talk => Topic started by: Dr Klaus Schmitt on July 31, 2017, 18:46:36

Title: Lens from a dissolved Printer lab
Post by: Dr Klaus Schmitt on July 31, 2017, 18:46:36

Found this when a Printer lab was dissolved... shot fully open using a 0.7x Speedbooster on GH4

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4302/35484553663_6d9e57c47f_o.jpg)

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4313/36248848396_7eba5041ee_o.jpg)

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4321/35896334880_7b8d6c86eb_o.jpg)

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4328/35484548673_7abef2509f_o.jpg)

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4307/36289793415_e56ff44fb6_o.jpg)

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4321/36289791645_9227b73c0f_o.jpg)

not that shabby ;-)

Title: Re: Lens from a dissolved Printer lab
Post by: Dr Klaus Schmitt on July 31, 2017, 19:58:50

Part II

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4322/36289792945_386ebfa01c_o.jpg)

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4291/35484561883_ba32980c3f_o.jpg)

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4293/36123213992_132d30df87_o.jpg)

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4294/35484543013_1e240bfeaa_o.jpg)

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4327/35484552273_686966e625_o.jpg)

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4323/35896316840_5256ce15d8_o.jpg)

Title: Re: Lens from a dissolved Printer lab
Post by: Dr Klaus Schmitt on July 31, 2017, 19:59:24

Part III

Close up:

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4298/35484564663_8ebaf47a1e_o.jpg)

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4326/35484564393_9eda18060c_o.jpg)

but also at further away tack sharp...

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4320/35484565783_b40935c682_o.jpg)

Title: Re: Lens from a dissolved Printer lab
Post by: pluton on July 31, 2017, 20:41:29

I don't know how much is you, and how much is the lens, but the simultaneous presence of depth of field on the subject and shallow overall depth of field in these shots is spectacular.
Any details on focal length and shooting aperture?

Title: Re: Lens from a dissolved Printer lab
Post by: Oskar O on July 31, 2017, 22:37:09

Interesting look, seems to work well for pictorial photography. Is it a short tele perhaps?

Title: Re: Lens from a dissolved Printer lab
Post by: Dr Klaus Schmitt on August 01, 2017, 00:53:53

Quote from: pluton on July 31, 2017, 20:41:29

I don't know how much is you, and how much is the lens, but the simultaneous presence of depth of field on the subject and shallow overall depth of field in these shots is spectacular.
Any details on focal length and shooting aperture?

About 90mm and f4, all shot at f4. Admittedly I shoot fast lenses fully open since years now and have developed a (my) style, to guide the viewers eye using sharp-unsharp and position of objects ;-)

Quote from: Oskar O on July 31, 2017, 22:37:09

Interesting look, seems to work well for pictorial photography. Is it a short tele perhaps?

As mentioned above, it is about 90mm focal length, so yes, well noticed, a short tele although for a printer (= enlarger) lens, that term is uncommon and not used.  It is only about the magnification and image angle.

Title: Re: Lens from a dissolved Printer lab
Post by: Akira on August 01, 2017, 08:10:02

The flowers are beautiful.  But I particularly like the succulents neatly planted like "bonsai".  The lab was dissolved unfortunately, but the lens resolves really well.  :D

Title: Re: Lens from a dissolved Printer lab
Post by: Dr Klaus Schmitt on August 01, 2017, 09:23:36

Quote from: Akira on August 01, 2017, 08:10:02

The flowers are beautiful.  But I particularly like the succulents neatly planted like "bonsai".  The lab was dissolved unfortunately, but the lens resolves really well.  :D

Arigato domo, Akira-San!

The succulents with their fine hair also work well as resolution targets ;-)

Title: Re: Lens from a dissolved Printer lab
Post by: armando_m on August 01, 2017, 16:53:03

Fantastic results

any photos of the actual lens?

Title: Re: Lens from a dissolved Printer lab
Post by: pluton on August 01, 2017, 23:34:36

OT: I can't shake the *imagined* visual image of an entire photo lab dissolving in a swimming pool filled with corrosive liquid. 
Perhaps inspired by this recently seen video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5263WI00_I (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5263WI00_I)

Title: Re: Lens from a dissolved Printer lab
Post by: JJChan on August 02, 2017, 05:00:20

Dear Dr
Thanks for posting these - I always astonished by how sharp and defined your pictures are - I think its technique rather than all lens properties... the colour, the clarity, always so clean

Thanks again

JJ

Title: Re: Lens from a dissolved Printer lab
Post by: charlie on August 03, 2017, 17:55:47

Quote from: Dr Klaus Schmitt on August 01, 2017, 00:53:53

About 90mm and f4, all shot at f4. Admittedly I shoot fast lenses fully open since years now and have developed a (my) style, to guide the viewers eye using sharp-unsharp and position of objects ;-)

You also handle colors extremely well. They are very deep & rich without appearing oversaturated.

Title: Re: Lens from a dissolved Printer lab
Post by: Dr Klaus Schmitt on August 04, 2017, 09:50:33

Thanks guys! There have been questions about using a speedbooster, so here some shots without,
to prove that there is rather a noticeable difference. All handheld and shot fully open, no crops...


(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4394/35530994713_ce60acd17f_o.jpg)

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4335/35942904400_d1bed0a519_o.jpg)

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4347/35531000203_c717003efd_o.jpg)

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4438/35531003803_1c7fc04033_o.jpg)

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4305/35530994863_e4ee1cb4e3_o.jpg)

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4364/35530990313_f204063793_o.jpg)



and here how I would do in studio...(but shot outside)

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4392/35530991123_a4a1775f93_o.jpg)


This lens was designed to get the best out of people's negatives and it surely does!