I use a range of lenses, but I do have certain favourites. The Cooke soft focus lens being a good example. I use a variety of lenses for other stuff. For example the Schneider Super-Symmar 120/5.6 works very well more medium Macro work:
Shot last summer in the studio when the temperatures outside were in the high 30's. As discussed in the Liquid Emulsion thread, this is part of a series of coffee stained cyanotype simulations (I plan to do them using an analogue process when I get the time - maybe via digital negatives). They were shot on a Cambo Legend onto a PhaseOne P45 back mounted on a PhaseOne Flex Adapter sliding back using a Cooke Soft Focus lens. PP was done using LR, PS and NikSilverFX Pro. Although they were shot with a 5x4 aspect ratio it was always my intention to print the 1:1 as they were going into...
As promised in the thread on the
https://realphotographersforum.com/threads/cambo-legend-5x4.9251/, here is a first illustration on using a large format camera, in this case for macro photography. The subject in this instance was a large tropical seedpod with an interesting surface pattern. The first two shots show the setup:
As you can see, the subject is positioned on a black, velvet cloth about 15 cm in front of the lens...
The second example illustrates well the advantages of in-camera movements over editing (although the limited image area makes this trickier than with film). The later live-view backs would simplify this further I guess, but with experience it’s fine.
The lenses that are limited with a back on a LF camera (at least to some extent) are those with interesting overall rendering (bokeh and non-flat field) as the effects are often most pronounced at the edges of the field of view symmetrical with the central area and of course the back only ‘see’ the central part.
Is the Schneider Super-Symmar 120/5.6 , a macro lens?
Did you ever happen to use this lens Schneider Kreuznach MACRO Symmar HM 5.6/80?
And, did you hear something about these ones?
- Cambo Actus SCHNEIDER-KREUZNACH COMPONON-S 5.6 100mm Macro
- Schneider-Kreuznach MAKRO-SYMMAR HM 5.6/120 - yours is not HM, right?
-Carl Zeiss 120mm f4 Makro-Planar T* CF macro
-Contax Carl Zeiss Planar 60mm f2.8 C Macro
-Schneider-Kreuznach Componon-S 2.8/50 - Macro
-PENTAX SMC PENTAX 67 6x7 Macro 100mm f/4
-SCHNEIDER APO-Componon HM 4.5/44 MC
-SMC Pentax 67 135mm F4 Macro
Or these enlarging lenses?
- Schneider-Kreuznach APO-Componon HM 90mm 4.5 Enlarging Lens
-Fujinon EX lenses, 75mm
- RODENSTOCK APO-Rodagon N 50mm f/2.8
-SK 150mm F/5.6 ENLARGER LENS
rodenstock 120mm f/5.6 apo-rodagon D enlarging
