Originally posted by lbenac Close range looks well taken care-off. Have you tried it on landscapes?
No, I'm not into landscapes at all. There's really nothing around here that could make me start shooting landscapes.
But I have at least one frame of "urban landscape" stuff close to infinity at f/16 or f/22 on the roll that's in the camera right now. Three frames left before development.
In the meantime, these are from the first roll with the Bessa III...
There's a little bit of barrel distortion (easily corrected with +2 in PS) and the very corners arent sharp until f/11 or so with the 6x7 mode. But I'm surprised that the folding mechanism holds the lens parallel enough to the film plane. There's really no tilted plane of focus at all to be seen, even wide open. Vignetting is also very low straight from f/3.5. The image circle is probably rather large, but with low peripheral sharpness and/or with a curved field of focus.
The character of the lens is "classical" with a larger DOF than expected due to spherical aberration. But also, the bokeh is very nice and smooth because of this. I like it very much and it reminds me of the Voigtländer 40/2 on the 24x36 format, which was my favourite lens for a long time (before I caught the Zeiss disease).