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04-30-2016, 05:52 PM - 1 Like   #226
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QuoteOriginally posted by First Poster Quote
although I didn't fully appreciate the problems with narrow depth of field (shooting wide open for best bokeh) and general lack of sharpness.
Yeah, that's the tradeoff with older lenses. But with digital PP, you can do a lot. And "sharpness" is often a perception, a mixture of bright/dark contrast, colour contrasts, amount of detail captured, and so on. Often, just fixing CA and fringing will make the photo look much better. And using a good, tight lens hood (for APSC) can help with contrast a lot

Here is a photo with Zeiss Flektogon 35mm, didn't really do any PP other than NR and sharpening, applied selectively. I sharpened mainly the centre of the photo and at 100% you can see the little hairs that line the edge of the leaves, but only of the ones that are right on focus. Just a millimeter further, and its blurry.



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Pancololar 50mm f1.4 MkII with Jenaflex and Portra 160:

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Praktica BX20s, Pentacon 50mm f1.8, Fujipro400:



Cheap, common, tiny and capable lens.
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ITP: I am blessed with a bird who let me get so close with my Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 135 f/3.5 (zebra) that I didn't need to crop any of these shots.
And then I end up stopping down the lens farther than ever before and pushing my sensitivity to ISO 1600+, because getting enough of the bird in focus at such high magnification is a ridiculous task.

But still, not bad for a questionably lubricated East German monster from almost 50 years ago.





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Meyer-Optik Görlitz Primotar 50mm f/2.8



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More recent Pentacon 30/3.5 ... the last one is with a n°1 Pentax M42 extension tube (xpost)







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Meyer Görlitz Orestegor 300/4, also posted in the K-1 pictures thread.
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Pentacon 30/3.5 @ f/5.6 on K-3 in Saint Pierre Cathedral, Poitiers ... xpost

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Meyer-Optik Görlitz Primotar 50mm ƒ/2.8



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I finally had the opportunity to test the infamous Pancolar 50mm f1.8 on a Praktica VLC3 with Kodak 200. It's a serious lens, worthy of its reputation.







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