golden Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 <p>I was out shooting with my 5x7 yesturday and came aross a very old log cabin, decided to use a lens a friend of mine gave me a couple of years ago, it is a very old wollensak convertable, uncoated of course, shutter doesnt work except on the T setting which is fine with me. anyway, i took the shot, went to the darkroom and processed the neg, it was overexposed somewhat but not too bad, i decided to make a contact print, the look of the print so fit the scene, low contrast, some lens flare, looked like an image that was taken back in the late 1800's, a look that no way one of my newer fujinon lenses could have duplicated. does anyone else like this "look", i guess it works on certain subject matter better than others. </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luca_stramare2 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 <p>I prefer to have choices.<br> If by using such a lens you get a different result that more modern lenses are not able to give, well, why not?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luis_g Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 <p> Ansel Adams goes into this a bit in one of his books (The Lens, probably). Basically, the flare acts like a pre-flash, falsely elevating shadow values. There's a little of this effect between single-coated and multiple-coated lenses. Remember Weston photographed the entire oeuvre he is famous for with one lens that he bought at a Mexican flea market (it used to make A.A. cringe so bad that he offered E.W. any of his own lenses, and Weston declined.<br> Add a film without a halation layer, and one re-enters bygone times technically, and looks-wise.</p> <p> </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim_galli4 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 You might enjoy wading through <a href="http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com">my web pages</a> some time when your wife won't let you watch your favorite TV show. I've made a real expensive bad habit out of those old lenses. Some of them are downright astonishing. I've got a few hundred of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack_welsh Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 <p>John, please show a photo!</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack_welsh Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 <p>Jim, love your photos! photographing old buildings, etc. Has always been my favorite subjects.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luca_stramare2 Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 <p>Fantastic pictures, Jim!</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjjackson Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 <p>jim, great images and inspiring stories to go along with your experiments. thanks for sharing.</p> <p> </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim_galli4 Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 Thanks guys. :~')) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
golden Posted January 28, 2009 Author Share Posted January 28, 2009 <p>yes jim, excellent! the writings are exceptional, probably my favorite images are of the couple (the lady having shaved her head) tears came to my eyes as i read the story, those photos are awsome, </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_overton Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 <p>I've been a fan of Jim's for some time. I love the variety of focus and contrast in his images. It's partly because of him that I find myself lurking around looking for odd bits of glass. (and appropriate gear to make them sing)</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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