I like the effect ont he shot you posted - noticeable, but not overwhelming.
A couple of years ago I had a memorable chat with the owner of Cnetral Camera in downtown Chicago. The store was founded by his great grand father in the late 1800's, nad he was pretty knowledgeable about older cameras. (In fact, they stock film re-spooled in just about every ancient format that ever existed.) I metioned to him that I had just purchased an old Argoflex E TLR. He said "If you want that old fashioned look, but lust a tiny bit of vasoline on the BACK of the lens." I told him I had tried vasoline on filters on the front of the lens on 35mm gear, and he just rolle dhis eyes. "The back of the lens - it's hard not to use too much, but the effect is a lot stronger if the Vaseline is on the back of the lens. It's different on the front of the lens." I tried his recomemndation (on my Ricoflex - the Argolex was jsut too damn nice in condition for this kind of experiment." He was right - if you could even see the vaoline on the back of the lens it made for images that were way out of focus. Just enough oil to make the lens, essentially, dirty, but not with a noticeable layer of grease - really did the trick. On the back element - on the front element it would be un-noticeable. I've played around with this on film cameras. No way in hell will I risk exposing aidigtal CCD to possible contamination like that. But if you want to take things a step further - work with the real element. But again - love the shot you posted. _ MCC Jens Bladt wrote: > I just had to try the old David Hamilton trick - applyin vaseline to the > front lens - or more correctly - to the UV-filter. Only I used butter. > http://www.flickr.com/photos/bladt/475636591/ > Photographed with a Pentax K10D / SMC Pentax-A 1:3.5/35-105mm. The lens > filter was partly covered by a layer of butter. > I'll do some more in the early morning light tomorrow :-) > Regards > > Jens Bladt > > http://www.jensbladt.dk > +45 56 63 77 11 > +45 23 43 85 77 > Skype: jensbladt248 > > --- > > -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mark Cassino Photography Kalamazoo, Michigan www.markcassino.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
