11/3/2022 0 Comments Best bubble bokeh lens![]() I studied in a film school in Brussels in mid 70, before attending 3 years film we had a year photography.ģ years ago I reconnected with “half-analog” photography…developping B&W, scanning and processing with Capture One. Some lens designs blur the image in a way that is pleasing to the eye, while others produce distracting or unpleasant blurring (good and bad bokeh. When I compare this 1955 lens, a copy of the 1930-ies Zeiss lens, to my Fujinon lenses on my digital Fuji’s, I can see that we “speek” an other language now. With a T-Max100 I should be able to see the difference between the bubbles an the grain □ I’ll try to make a picture in highlight, out of focus to see if I can recognise the bubbles. They never seemed to affect the pictures I took with it. This is a nice lens…with a few air-bubbles. I like the soft way (the “dégradé” in French) the lens goes from sharp to unsharp ![]() My Contax had a good CLA and works well (shutter speeds are accurate (besides that 1/1000 is more 1/800) My Sonnar was accidented (fallen I suppose), comletely out of focus and beyond “reasonably costs” to use. I have a 1937 ContaxII and a matching Sonnar. Currently we all seek perfection and we would not accept such a defect but there was a more tolerant or resigned time, for the photos of that time that quality was more than sufficient. Bubbles in the SonnarĪs you can see in the image at the top, the bubbles are evident, one in particular is of “enormous” size. My curiosity in them caused me to discover something strange about them – whilst inspecting and attempting to clean the lenses, I saw that the 50mm f/1.5 Sonnar lens had air bubbles in the rear group of elements, so I thought I would take some photos to demonstrate how they impacted the results. A lack of affection and use had caused them to no longer work, so he has had them as decoration in his house.īut whilst the camera’s don’t work, the lenses are only dirty. Best bubble bokeh lens professional#Their origin is unknown, my friend received them from another professional more than 30 years ago and then they no longer worked even then. On the left is a close up photo of the glass itself, and on the right is an isolated out of focus highlight that I have. Here you can see a comparison of the bubbles in the lens, and the impact of them on the bokeh. The cameras were loaned to me as a curiosity by my friend and ex-professional photographer, Enrique. Bubbles in the Bokeh, Where the bubbles can be seen is in the bokeh when photos are taken that include out of focus highlights. The general state of both these camera is deplorable, they are missing parts and nothing moves. ![]() I say “almost unbreakable”, as these poor specimens have seen better days. 1 Soap Bubble Bokeh by Trioplan 2 Soap Bubble Bokeh 5 Vintage Lenses 2.1 Super Takumar 105mm F2.8 (M42 mount) 2.2 Fujinon 55mm F2.2 (M42 mount) 2.3 Meyer-Optik Domiplan 50mm F2.8 (M42 mount) 2. He worked for Thomas Cooke, a producer of telescopes who is not Thomas Cook who sells vacations today. ![]() A ‘real’ soap bubble bokeh lens is a so-called triplet lens designed by Harold Dennis Taylor who designed the Tessar. This lens is a 4 elements in 3 groups lens. Tell me something that is heavy, hard, old and almost unbreakable. this Jena 50 2.8 is a Jena Zeiss Tessar design. ![]()
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