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Who uses funky lenses?
Hello,
So i am anxiously awaiting the arrival of a box of shutters and random optics which i am receiving as a trade for anothe LF lens that I have. I like the idea of a funky lens look, bokeh, tight focus parameters, etc. I was wondering who else uses lenses like this? I guess you could call them broken, but i like the wierd lens look (i.e.- sally mann). Just curious as to who else shares this?
-Austin
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I bought a shutter and adapter rings to reverse an enlarging lens on my 4x5, but I haven't had a chance to experiment with them yet.
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I've started making soft focus lenses after playing around with the odd bits in my junk drawer.
Take a look at what can be done with a simple meniscus lens...
http://www.apug.org/forums/forum379/...s-mounted.html
These things are not only fun, they're beautiful.
Reinhold
www.classicBWphoto.com
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Dave: that sounds interesting. Use it and post some images on here!
Reinhold: I saw this, and attempted to replicate it with a close-up filter that i had. it seems that i don't have enough bellows draw for the single-meniscus, it's awful! oh well i guess i'll be using plastic optics and smaller format cells on a copal shutter os something. Not really sure what is going to happen at this point, but we will see. It's funny because my other lens is a schneider, which, as you most likely know, is a very fine lens.
-Austin
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I have a box full of bits and bobs that are fun to play with. My faves are 6x9 or 6x6 lenses(80-100mm). For some reason, I'm fascinated with the port-hole look of the image(vignetting). I recently swapped a lens that I regret giving up, a 6-1/2" Rapid Aplanat that had a most wonderful bokeh.
Rick A
Argentum aevum
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Luseboy,
I use all sorts of junk to make images and I spend lots of time with cadged together lens boards and improvised shutters playing with lenses that have no right to be on a camera. One of my favorite is the objective lens from a set of binoculars. Right now I'lm playing with a series of projection lenses from the first half of the 20th century, but magnifying glasses, condenser lenses, viewfinders from cheap TLR's... just about anything that will resolve an image gets a try out. I have bags of the things and keep buying/trading/finding more. It's just plain fun.
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I've been using projection lenses on my speed graphic and I consistently get great results* out of them:
...the lens used in all these photos is a Leitz Wetzlar Hektor 150mm/f2.5 - barely covers 4x5, as you can see.
*: technically they're great results, artistically they're nothing special - I usually get carried away by the image I see on the ground glass and I forget all about creativity, composition, etc... 
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hi luseboy --
a big YES!
im a fan of harvesting broken junk lenses off of junk folders
and / or buying plano convex cells from the surplus shed,
or unscrewing lenses and using elements with other lenses and ..
just having a good time 
john
ps it helps when you have a focal plane shutter 
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A friend uses a lens with a completely scratched front element. Lovely.
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I do, or try to. Pentac, Cooke speedic, fast tessars, aero ektar, a graf variable i'm trying to master. It's a weird road to go down. John's right, a camera with a focal plane shutter is a great thing to have around, opens up a lot of possible combos.
Theo, I love the look of that Hektor, who knew? very nice.
my flickr
i have a book out..100% freerange film content.
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