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p.28 #1What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Apo el nikkor 105/5.6N. Should be good for medium format enlarging.
Jun 22, 2011 at 07:07 PM
p.28 #2What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
dcjs wrote:
Hey, that's Bifurcator. He probably actually bought all of those.
ROFL That's what I was thinking Originally, but I was under the impression he was more into manual glass.
Hey, that's Bifurcator. He probably actually bought all of those.
ROFL That's what I was thinking Originally, but I was under the impression he was more into manual glass.
Jun 22, 2011 at 07:36 PM
p.28 #3What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Bifurcator buys lenses like other people buy socks - in bulk
Jun 22, 2011 at 07:42 PM
p.28 #4What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
he bought all 14 items to get 1 lense
Jun 22, 2011 at 08:03 PM
p.28 #5What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Ed Sawyer wrote:
Apo el nikkor 105/5.6N. Should be good for medium format enlarging.
Really! Do you mind my asking how much?
That's a lens I'd like to have a play with.
JJ
Apo el nikkor 105/5.6N. Should be good for medium format enlarging.
Really! Do you mind my asking how much?
That's a lens I'd like to have a play with.
JJ
Jun 22, 2011 at 08:06 PM
p.28 #6What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
JohnJ wrote:
Really! Do you mind my asking how much?
That's a lens I'd like to have a play with.
JJ
I was looking at this setup but I can't afford it now that I blew my budget on my OM 21.
Nikkor bellows on ebay
3 days+ left
http://intofoc.us/storage/060911-BRII-2.jpg
Ed Sawyer wrote
Apo el nikkor 105/5.6N. Should be good for medium format enlarging.That's a lens I'd like to have a play with.
JJ
I was looking at this setup but I can't afford it now that I blew my budget on my OM 21.
Nikkor bellows on ebay
3 days+ left
http://intofoc.us/storage/060911-BRII-2.jpg
Jun 22, 2011 at 08:23 PM
p.28 #7What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
JohnJ wrote:
Really! Do you mind my asking how much?
That's a lens I'd like to have a play with.
JJ
$1250, which might sound like a lot for an enlarging lens but it's actually probably worth at least double that. They are fairly uncommon.
This isn't the one but it's what they look like (the later version):
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260796953169
People do use them on digital/bellows/macro, etc., but I'll actually be using this one for enlarging.
-Ed
Ed Sawyer wrote
Apo el nikkor 105/5.6N. Should be good for medium format enlarging.That's a lens I'd like to have a play with.
JJ
$1250, which might sound like a lot for an enlarging lens but it's actually probably worth at least double that. They are fairly uncommon.
This isn't the one but it's what they look like (the later version):
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260796953169
People do use them on digital/bellows/macro, etc., but I'll actually be using this one for enlarging.
-Ed
Jun 23, 2011 at 07:13 AM
p.28 #8What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Ed Sawyer wrote:
Really! Do you mind my asking how much?
That's a lens I'd like to have a play with.
JJ$1250, which might sound like a lot for an enlarging lens but it's actually probably worth at least double that. They are fairly uncommon.
This isn't the one but it's what they look like (the later version):
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260796953169
People do use them on digital/bellows/macro, etc., but I'll actually be using this one for enlarging.
-Ed
Thanks Ed. I'm familiar with the usual asking price on these things, there's one for about 3.3K BIN at the mo' too, so that's why I was qurious about the price you paid. Seems you paid a nice price indeed. Good luck with it.
I'd love to know how you go with it once you've used it for a while, and compared to your previous lens (or lenses).
JJ
JohnJ wrote
Ed Sawyer wrote
Apo el nikkor 105/5.6N. Should be good for medium format enlarging.That's a lens I'd like to have a play with.
JJ
This isn't the one but it's what they look like (the later version):
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260796953169
People do use them on digital/bellows/macro, etc., but I'll actually be using this one for enlarging.
-Ed
Thanks Ed. I'm familiar with the usual asking price on these things, there's one for about 3.3K BIN at the mo' too, so that's why I was qurious about the price you paid. Seems you paid a nice price indeed. Good luck with it.
I'd love to know how you go with it once you've used it for a while, and compared to your previous lens (or lenses).
JJ
Jun 23, 2011 at 03:13 PM
p.28 #9What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
this thread just makes me a lense hoarder.
Jun 23, 2011 at 03:32 PM
p.28 #10What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
dcjs wrote:
Hey, that's Bifurcator. He probably actually bought all of those.
Yes!
I'm almost done testing them all too. Well at least on the res-charts... I've taken a couple on shoots already too. I'm really liking that Nikkor 18-70 ED. Sweet! The Nikkor 100/2.5 is pretty awesome too but I already figured it would be (according to Rusty) so no surprises there.
I'll post some images a little later.
LightShow wrote:
ROFL That's what I was thinking Originally, but I was under the impression he was more into manual glass.
These are all manual on my camera!
Hey, that's Bifurcator. He probably actually bought all of those.
Yes!
I'm almost done testing them all too. Well at least on the res-charts... I've taken a couple on shoots already too. I'm really liking that Nikkor 18-70 ED. Sweet! The Nikkor 100/2.5 is pretty awesome too but I already figured it would be (according to Rusty) so no surprises there.
I'll post some images a little later.
LightShow wrote:
ROFL That's what I was thinking Originally, but I was under the impression he was more into manual glass.
These are all manual on my camera!
Jun 25, 2011 at 06:39 PM
p.28 #11What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
JJ - will post some thoughts when I get a chance to use it. My previous lens in this area is an apo rodagon-N 80/4.
Ed
Ed
Jun 25, 2011 at 06:54 PM
p.28 #12What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Ed Sawyer wrote:
JJ - will post some thoughts when I get a chance to use it. My previous lens in this area is an apo rodagon-N 80/4.
Ed
Thanks Ed. In which case I would be particularly interested as the last enlarging lens which I actually used for enlarging (as apposed to using enlarging lenses to take pictures) was also an APO-Rodagon-N 80/4.
JJ
JJ - will post some thoughts when I get a chance to use it. My previous lens in this area is an apo rodagon-N 80/4.
Ed
Thanks Ed. In which case I would be particularly interested as the last enlarging lens which I actually used for enlarging (as apposed to using enlarging lenses to take pictures) was also an APO-Rodagon-N 80/4.
JJ
Jun 25, 2011 at 07:27 PM
p.28 #13What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Nikkor AF 18-70mm f3.5G ED --- All wide open:
Hand-held, 1/30s, ISO100
Elbows planted on a wobbly fence railing, hand-held, 6sec., ISO100
Same as above but 8sec.
I guess you can tell why I'm liking it! Lemme know if anyone wants to see 100% crops. I haven't looked up the "reputation hype" on this lens yet but I bet people dig it. 
Hand-held, 1/30s, ISO100
Elbows planted on a wobbly fence railing, hand-held, 6sec., ISO100
Same as above but 8sec.
I guess you can tell why I'm liking it!
Lemme know if anyone wants to see 100% crops. I haven't looked up the "reputation hype" on this lens yet but I bet people dig it. Jun 25, 2011 at 10:30 PM
p.28 #14What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Meh, I've seen better....
Last one is awesome, congrats on the nice glass, too bad it's a cropper.
Last one is awesome, congrats on the nice glass, too bad it's a cropper.
Jun 25, 2011 at 11:28 PM
p.28 #15What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Yeah, he had 3 other DX ED lenses too. But since I've never turned over a DX I didn't know how that aspect would affect eventual resale. So I just picked the widest one and left the other three.
BTW, that last one isn't saturation altered at all:
Nikkor AF-S 18-70 ED 3.5G, Elbows planted on a wobbly fence railing, hand-held @18mm, 8sec., f/3.5, ISO100
In fact I was thinking about lowering the saturation on it some but didn't. One of the few lenses I've used that really captures the full in-person presence of color in a scene. Or, so far anyway... I've only shout about 120 shots with it. A few of the other lenses like that are also "made for Digital" generation lenses so I wonder if that has something to do with it?
BTW, that last one isn't saturation altered at all:
Nikkor AF-S 18-70 ED 3.5G, Elbows planted on a wobbly fence railing, hand-held @18mm, 8sec., f/3.5, ISO100
In fact I was thinking about lowering the saturation on it some but didn't. One of the few lenses I've used that really captures the full in-person presence of color in a scene. Or, so far anyway... I've only shout about 120 shots with it. A few of the other lenses like that are also "made for Digital" generation lenses so I wonder if that has something to do with it?
Jun 26, 2011 at 04:41 AM
p.28 #16What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
My most recent alt, the Leica 180mm f/2 APO-Summicron-R. Once I finish comparing it to my Nikon 200mm f/2 VR, I will sell one of them again.
http://throughthelensdarkly.com/forums/LeicaVsNikon/CW_20110625_LeicaM8_39946.jpg
http://throughthelensdarkly.com/forums/LeicaVsNikon/CW_20110625_LeicaM8_39946.jpg
Jun 26, 2011 at 05:11 AM
p.28 #17What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
carstenw wrote:
My most recent alt, the Leica 180mm f/2 APO-Summicron-R. Once I finish comparing it to my Nikon 200mm f/2 VR, I will sell one of them again.
http://throughthelensdarkly.com/forums/LeicaVsNikon/CW_20110625_LeicaM8_39946.jpg
Manual focusing with the Cron is astonishingly fast and accurate. I had a virtually perfect keeper rate with it, but of course AF is much better suited to action then even a perfect manual focus lens.
I would be interested to see how they compare stopped down, at F8 or so. The Cron was not as sharp as the Elmarit or Telyt at F8, but then again it wasn't much sharper at F8 than it is wide open too!
Have fun!
JJ
My most recent alt, the Leica 180mm f/2 APO-Summicron-R. Once I finish comparing it to my Nikon 200mm f/2 VR, I will sell one of them again.
http://throughthelensdarkly.com/forums/LeicaVsNikon/CW_20110625_LeicaM8_39946.jpg
Manual focusing with the Cron is astonishingly fast and accurate. I had a virtually perfect keeper rate with it, but of course AF is much better suited to action then even a perfect manual focus lens.
I would be interested to see how they compare stopped down, at F8 or so. The Cron was not as sharp as the Elmarit or Telyt at F8, but then again it wasn't much sharper at F8 than it is wide open too!
Have fun!
JJ
Jun 26, 2011 at 06:00 AM
p.28 #18What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
My latest: pre-war uncoated Meyer Gorlitz Primoplan 58/1.9. Tiny size (looks laughable compared to the monsters above):
http://i010.radikal.ru/1106/ef/6f8410c0afb6.jpg
Retro look, swirly bokeh, rich colors:
http://s50.radikal.ru/i127/1106/39/2d5b54f66483.jpg
http://s006.radikal.ru/i215/1106/57/ad36a0fbc3d4.jpg
http://i010.radikal.ru/1106/ef/6f8410c0afb6.jpg
Retro look, swirly bokeh, rich colors:
http://s50.radikal.ru/i127/1106/39/2d5b54f66483.jpg
http://s006.radikal.ru/i215/1106/57/ad36a0fbc3d4.jpg
Jun 26, 2011 at 01:45 PM
p.28 #19What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Cool stuff.
Happy shooting,
Yakim.
Happy shooting,
Yakim.
Jun 26, 2011 at 02:35 PM
p.28 #20What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Today i bought a Trioplan 100 2.8
but few weeks ago i got a Rokkor MD 50mm 1.2:
great lens !!! :
but few weeks ago i got a Rokkor MD 50mm 1.2:
great lens !!! :
Jun 26, 2011 at 02:48 PM