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Forum: Lens Clubs
08-04-2018, 02:08 AM
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Oh, wow, that's rendering to die for. I've often wondered about how 70mm motion picture lenses would look on a medium format stills camera, and those shots are a pretty mindblowing proof-of-concept.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-20-2017, 07:35 AM
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Forum: Lens Clubs
01-25-2017, 12:05 PM
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This should be the last test shot with the Color-Paxon. I'm starting to get the sort of look I was hoping to get from it now.
 SG107624 by David Holland, on Flickr
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Forum: Lens Clubs
01-19-2017, 10:29 AM
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Another test shot with the Color-Paxon 85mm/2.8, but still very much at the test shot stage. It's now mounted in a helical, giving focus from a couple of feet to infinity, with an aperture disc fitted that makes it about an f/5.6. But as you can see there's some decentring that needs to be fixed. I'm not aiming for corner-to-corner sharpness, just trying to find a balance where I've got the right level of funkiness that I want.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
01-11-2017, 03:20 AM
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My own feeling, admittedly after trying out my first projector lens for only a couple of days, is that it's exactly the characteristics that would usually be considered flaws that appeal to me. There's a sort of dreaminess to the rendering that reminds me of the old school technique of stretching a stocking over the lens to give a diffused look, and I completely agree with Audi 5 cyl that it should produce very flattering portraits.
As for landscape, I have to confess that I'm not a fan of the currently dominant look of super-saturated, high dynamic range, corner-to-corner ultra-sharpness (as I think my stuff in the Takumar Club makes clear). I definitely intend to keep exploring the interesting possibilities that projector lenses seem to offer for landscapes, and I've just ordered a helical that should let me shoot all the way from close-up to infinity. It'll be fun to play around with aperture discs too.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
01-09-2017, 02:27 PM
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For a long time (inspired by this thread) I've been meaning to have a go with the lens from my old Novomat 130 AF projector, and today I finally took the plunge. It's a Color-Paxon 85mm/2.8, which I've mounted in some cheap extension tubes to get going. These are a couple of very rough-and-ready first tests from today, but at least it's a start.
Depth of field is wafer thin, but I should be able to get a smaller aperture if I can find the right size washers.
Infinity focus will definitely be possible, although I had to free-lens this one, which is why the edges are so bad. I think I've got that solved now, but need a chance to test it.
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