On 8/5/2022 5:28 AM, Wayne Harridge wrote:
Let's try that again with some easier URLs !
Great collection of different effects Moose!
Here's a few of mine using a Mamiya RB67 with Mamiya-Sekor SFC 150mm f3.5
soft focus lens from way back. This lens comes with 3 different disks which
can be screwed into the rear of the lens to provide the soft focus. The
disks have a central hole which is surrounded by an array of smaller holes,
wide open the outer small holes provide the OOF contribution to the image
and as you stop down this contribution is diminished and completely
extinguished at f8. This all works nicely until you have bright highlights.
https://tinyurl.com/4x555hvs
https://tinyurl.com/2p87thsk
Without bright highlights the lens gives a pleasant effect.
https://tinyurl.com/5n7vfyym
Lovely light! All the wider aperture shots are lovely. No. 11 of 14 is nice
soft focus.
A number of lenses have used "sink strainer" aperture/filters for soft focus. That includes my original LensBaby Soft
Focus, with three different "strainers". And, as far as I know, all of them suffer/feature wild patterns with specular
highlights.
That may be why the spate of variable soft focus lenses of the 70s used under corrected spherical aberrations, by moving
one lens or group relative to the rest. I have the Canon Soft Focus and Minolta Varisoft 85/2.8 lenses. Although the
mechanical way the amount of softness is adjusted varies, the results are similar.
Fractured View Moose
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