Re: dreamy Nikon lenses
I'm posting this for Rodolpho Pajuaba as seen below. Ryuji From: Rodolpho Pajuaba <rodolpho@pajuaba.com.br> Subject: Re: dreamy Nikon lenses Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:57:07 -0300 > Hello, Mr. Suzuki, Iīm sorry for any inconvenience. Iīm trying to send the message below to the list but I canīt, and I didnīt find the reason yet. Could you be so kind an send it for me? > Thanks a lot in advance. > Regards, > Rodolpho Pajuaba > > There is another photographer who uses this language called Mark Tucker > <www.marktucker.com> . He even teached how he did their essays; he > called his camera the "plungercam". He glued a loupe with a rubber tape > around it to a Hasselblad with shutter on the body. I tried to do it > with my 5D, and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnīt. I have two > pictures done like this - but I used a 35-70mm Nikkor lens onto the 5D - > on my website <www.pajuaba.com.br>, on the link "Portfolio", one of a > room and another of a street scene. > In my view, the problem of using plastic lenses is that it gets too bad > sometimes, and the focused area is not very defined - but for some > (people and photographs) itīs an advantage. > Regards, > Rodolpho Pajuaba > > Ryuji Suzuki escreveu: > > 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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