S-K Xenar 4.5/75 at f/8

[vilva]

Here are some examples at f/8 with the front-cell set to 1m. There is some vignetting due to a hand-held lens shade.

11769:


11770:


11771:


11773:


11774:


11775:


11776:


11777:


The bokeh is in a way both better and worse than at f/4.5. It is better as the bright edge has almost disappeared, but it isn't very Gaussian anymore.

Having the front-cell set at 1m will somewhat soften the result when the lens is focused farther than about 2m. However, I wouldn't call it exactly soft (very minimally sharpened before RAW conversion):

Crop 11773:


Crop 11775:


Anyway, one of my better lenses.

Veijo

[patrickh]

Veijo

These are wonderful. Old look for an old lens. You bring us such fascinating samples, thank you

patrickh