Selfmade soft focus lens on Lumix GH1

[kds315*]

I know this will challenge some viewing habits, but I'll try anyway...























and a few from my hometown Weinheim where I shoot my images mainly:

[poilu]

great Vaseline trick!

[cooltouch]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. If I feel the need for soft focus, I'll smear a bit of Vaseline onto a filter and fire away. Works just fine.

[kds315*]

Well, it is not, but a f1.0 lens that I have mounted into a suitable housing + focusing helicoids (5cm to infinity) + aperture.

Vaseline or filters don't work in that way.

[cooltouch]

Well, I dunno. You can get pretty close to that by smearing a light coating of Vaseline around the periphery of a filter and leave the center more or less free of it.

[pat donnelly]

How controllable is the effect?

That would be where it might beat the "Vaseline boys"? I know that adding softness with adulteration of a filter means that the wider the aperture, the greater the effect. Has your lens other effects as well? The centre seems to be affected quite markedly, as you say, unlike with adulteration.

[kds315*]

The degree of softness (I don't like to call that "effect") is fully controllable from very soft to quite sharp (as can be seen in the pictures above).

[Nordentro]

Nice softness Can you post a image of this lens?

[martinsmith99]

I must've missed the thread about the construction of this lens?

Results look pretty good to me!

I apply soft focus in PP by smearing vaseline on the monitor screen!

[Penumbra]

Like the last one!!!!

[Orio]

[kds315*]

Lucerne / Switzerland at "l'heure bleue" as seen through my quartz soft focus lens.