p.28 #2 · What 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.
p.28 #8 · What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Ed Sawyer wrote:
$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):
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).
p.28 #10 · What 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.
p.28 #12 · What 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.
p.28 #13 · What 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.
p.28 #15 · What 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?
p.28 #17 · What 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.
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!
