There's a reason why I'm so delighted with my 1954 Kodak Retina IIc. :)
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"The more things have changed, the more they remain the same."
> On Jan 16, 2023, at 12:27 AM, jco...@iinet.net.au wrote:
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> I know we are all impressed by the quality of modern equipment: I was given a
> lesson today
Am 01.02.23 um 23:30 schrieb Sandy Harris:
There are some older lenses which have more aperture blades than most
modern ones, good for bokeh. Jupiter 9 85mm f2 (~1960s Russian copy of
a ~1930s Zeiss design) has 15 & this m42 Pentax is the only lens I've
ever heard of with 18.
The Meyer
There are some older lenses which have more aperture blades than most
modern ones, good for bokeh. Jupiter 9 85mm f2 (~1960s Russian copy of
a ~1930s Zeiss design) has 15 & this m42 Pentax is the only lens I've
ever heard of with 18.
https://www.pentaxforums.com/lensreviews/Takumar-200mm-F3.5.html
The one big improvement with many of the newer computer designed and
manufactured lenses is sharpness in the corners. But when it comes to the full
image at F5.6 or F8D many of the older lenses are equal to today in most
respects. Of course, with digital sensors the coding change does help
I know we are all impressed by the quality of modern equipment: I was given a
lesson today in what our older kit could produce. In
researching an article I am writing, I went back to an image taken on a
Voigtlander Vito CD 35mm rangefinder camera, the first
camera I ever owned. Scanned some
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