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Thank you so much arri for starting this thread and for your images. Thanks also to all of the contributors to it! I'm enjoying every bit of it.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 lens is a copy of the Goerz Dagor--excellent.The last one for now
Image made with the Emil Busch Leukar Doppel Anastigmat 6.8/190mm
Sheet film 4x5"
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