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Old lenses, post your samples

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arri

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Please don´t hesitate to post your own samples here, I know that a lot of photographers find it interesting to see picture taken with old lenses.

I prefer the uncoated ones, made earlier than 1945. Here it is possible to find lenses which are not only sharp, this ones have unique characteristics.
Now I start with a lens from the small swiss maker Emil Suter, located in Basel. Named "Stella" 160mm f/5
It is not an anastigmat but made in the 1920th. It is a kind of soft focus lens with a very interesting rendering. A late child of the pictoralism.

This sample is made with f/5. Ilford FP4+, Adox FX-39 II developer and negative scanned with the Epson V700



This sample is made with f/16. Ilford FP4+, Adox FX-39 II developer and negative scanned with the Epson V700

 
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arri

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Here is a sample made with a rare Carl Zeiss Jena Biotessar 165mm f/2.8
This lenses were only delivered with cameras with focal plane shutter, so it comes only with aperture mounts.
I want my Biotessar in a shutter, and now it is finished.
A synchronised F.Deckel Compound IV shutter.
The lens:


And here´s the sample:
Fomapan 100 @ ISO 50, Adox FX-39 II, 7 + 2.5 minutes, sheet film 4x5 in., Sinar F1

 
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strymeow

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arri said:
Here is a sample made with a rare Carl Zeiss Jena Biotessar 165mm f/2.8
This lenses were only delivered with cameras with focal plane shutter, so it comes only with aperture mounts.
I want my Biotessar in a shutter, and now it is finished.
A synchronised F.Deckel Compound IV shutter.
The lens:


And here´s the sample:
Fomapan 100 @ ISO 50, Adox FX-39 II, 7 + 2.5 minutes, sheet film 4x5 in., Sinar F1

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I recently acquired a copy of this lens and am hoping to shutter-mount it as well. Were you able to simply screw the cells into the shutter, or did your setup require specialized mounting?
 
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arri

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strymeow said:
I recently acquired a copy of this lens and am hoping to shutter-mount it as well. Were you able to simply screw the cells into the shutter, or did your setup require specialized mounting?
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The threads of the Compound IV shutters can be a little bit different, the lens cells fitted into a post war C. IV without any problems but not in a postwar shutter I have had.
 
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strymeow

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So it’s a roll of the dice then, eh? Wouldn’t be interesting otherwise, I suppose! Thanks for the info, and glad to see yours is working well in a shutter. Do share some more images when you can— the one you posted above does not show up for me.

I’m going to take my chances with a shutter I found listed and see what happens. Fingers crossed! In the meantime, here’s another wide open shot with mine on MG paper. These uncoated lenses are a bit prone to flare, it seems...

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strymeow

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Shashin said:
It could also be that paper is more sensitive to blue and UV, making the the flare more pronounced. A UV filter might compensate for some of that.
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I had wondered as much, and I hope to know for sure later this month when I get the equipment to develop sheet film and see how it interacts with the lens. Thanks for weighing in!
 
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arri

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Pictures made with old pre war wide angle lenses are very rare, this lenses are noch easy to handle.
I made this sample with a Hugo Meyer Wide Angle Aristostigmat 6.3/83mm in 4x5" format. The lens were made in the early 1930th
It is good visible that the lens has a big problem with internal reflexions because of the four single and uncoated elements.
But it is a sharp lens and the reflexions gave the image a unique charme.
Angle of view acc. Meyer 105° but I found 90-95° is usable. More only when the object is really obtimal for it, indoor with a perfect illumination, f.e.

 
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arri

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A DIY made lens, an ISCO Kiptar 2.9/170mm projection lens, now mounted in a Compound III shutter.
A lot of work but I find it worth.
A classic Petzval lens, made in the 1950th, already coated but with the typical image reproduction.



And here two test samples, the first made with f/2.9 and the second with f/8
Xray film



 
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