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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-16-2021, 07:40 AM
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SCAN, obviously taken with a soft lens so it must have been the 85mm f2.2, as that was the only one I've owned. I must also have been experimenting with a Cokin star filter of some kind.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
08-16-2020, 05:19 AM
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An experiment - two diffusion filters on a cheap zoom lens (=intrinsically on the soft side). The rendering is not quite the same as a true soft lens, but less contrasty lighting (=no black background) might be better to reveal the effect.
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07-20-2020, 06:52 PM
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Definitely another winner.
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07-13-2020, 04:43 PM
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Nicely done! A "painterly" image.
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07-17-2019, 09:11 AM
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At least for a while Zeiss made a "Softar" filter that was supposed to give the same effect as a soft focus lens. Not to be confused with some of the filters from, for example, Cokin, the Zeiss had many tiny lens-like bumps on the surface of the glass. It was catch-your-breath expensive for a filter. Also, while looking into soft-focus lenses I came across a Canon soft-effect filter (52mm thread). Have you ever tried such a filter just to see how the effect compares with a real soft-focus lens? A Cokin resin filter would probably be the least expensive new for experimenting, or go to adapterrings.com and you can probably find some for under $20
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Forum: Lens Clubs
07-17-2019, 06:44 AM
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You might be able to adapt a large-format soft focus (eg Fuji 250mm f5.6) via a bellows, but you better be sure it can be done before investing in the lens, and be sure you want of lens that will probably have a long FL). Some old large-format lenses have soft-focus characteristics so valued in early portraiture, but again, do you have a bellows & adapters that will work (Bronica had a bellows specifically designed to take large format lenses. The front standard was a removable blank metal sheet intended for drilling to mount large format lenses with a jam nut/ring)
CORRECTION: The bellows I'm thinking of, designed for the Bronica S2 I owned for a while, had Bronica bayonet lens mounts at each end, but they offered a blank metal plate with male lens mount, basically a body cap, that could be drilled for a large format lens of modest diameter.
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09-09-2018, 09:04 AM
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Have greatly enjoyed the work you're doing with a soft lens.
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09-06-2018, 06:35 AM
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At least you had some excuse for having difficulty locating that lens, because you loaned it to some one who didn't remember having it. Usually my lost lenses show up in the single compartment of a camera bag that I did not put my hand into, or in the lens drawer stacked below some other lens that I thought filled the entire lens sack. But, sometimes when searching for a particular lens, I find another that I forgot I owned.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
08-06-2018, 04:08 AM
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Look how many flowers there are. Flowers seem to be a natural partner to soft focus just as they are the natural sharp-focus foil to a well-bokehed background.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
04-28-2018, 07:28 PM
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84mm F2.2 soft (original non-AF lens). I used only modest softening, as psychologically I look for sharpness.
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07-20-2017, 02:48 AM
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That's a very pretty set of images. Hate to use this term, but the images are "dreamy."
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05-12-2016, 06:53 AM
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Flowers - the natural for soft focus (also attractive young women, and commonly high-key). 85mm f2.2 + Minolta #1 close-up lens on K1.
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04-27-2016, 08:59 AM
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I'll observe, somewhat repeating myself, soft focus seems to work especially well with flowers, high key and pastel colors, but there are exceptions, but those are exceptions.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
04-16-2016, 01:23 PM
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Before I get out my soft lens I'll observe that flowers always seem like the most natural subject for such a lens, by far the most common single subject posted so far.
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