RE: dreamy Nikon lenses
Hi Christina, I think it is the lens. In the 40's lens were not coated and, because of lens flare, bright image areas tended to bleed and produce dreamy, glowy images. I had a friend using old screw mount leica lenses and he often got this effect - white areas bleeding and creating a halo. If the lens has some scratches it is even better :-) gregory -----Original Message----- From: Christina Z. Anderson [mailto:zphoto@montana.net] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 9:57 AM To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca Subject: dreamy Nikon lenses Good morning! Some of you are quite knowledgeable on lenses. Do you know of a Nikon 35mm lens that would have been in use in, say, the 40's, that produced really dreamy, glowy images? The slides I have are from the 40's to the 70's and there is a major difference in lens between earlier and later. Or was it the film? I pulled apart one of the glass slides and it is Kodak "safety" film. Chris
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