Re: dreamy Nikon lenses
You can make dreamy flared pictures with a Sima 100mm soft focus lens. It is all plastic and very cheap, but quite versatile and easy to use. Don Sweet ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryuji Suzuki" <rs@silvergrain.org> To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 8:40 AM Subject: Re: dreamy Nikon lenses > FYI, there was an interesting article describing variable soft > focus portrait lens for Minolta 35mm camera written by their > soft focus lens engineer several months ago on the Journal of > the Society of Photographic Science and Engineering of Japan > (article in Japanese, except for the figure captions, I think). > > Also, Konica Hexar AF uses a lens whose spherical aberration > is intentionally undercorrected. It produces very nicely > "soft" image superimposed on sharp image, and with crisp > contrast, at wide open at f/2. It becomes more or less usual > "excellent" performer at about f/3.5. Of course, due to the > focusing error caused by the residual spherical aberration, > rangefinder cameras and SLRs cannot afford to leave this much > spherical, but Hexar AF calculates the focus error and > compensates in its AF algorithm. Very clever. > > One thing I wish existed was a camera just like Hexar but uses > 6cm square format. > > Ryuji
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