Painting with light. Kinoptik lens

[exaklaus]

Restarted playing with a toy, I had used few years ago on my Sigma SD 10 camera for some portrait shots. A Kinoptik lens, coming from government surplus sales. Somthing around 1:1+/- approx 100mm. No diaphragm. Added a focussing and changed the mount to Canon now with a old already misstreated M42-Eos adapter. Nearly forgot about the fun, this monster can give.
No postprocessing, only changing the size.

Nothing serious, just a bit of playing in our garden.







Klaus

[Pancolart]

First two and the lady statue are great. A photo-poetry.

[Attila]

[kds315*]

Very nicely done. I guess it was lens from a X-Ray machine. How far away can you focus with that?

[exaklaus]

[trev]

Lovely - most definitely a MONET feel to them

[exaklaus]

Yes, when in the mood for this soft pictures, it is fun to use!

old shot, made some years ago with this lens.


Klaus

[iangreenhalgh1]

Very nice. Looks like it's a Petzval type to me.

I have a Rathenower Optische Werke Visionar 1.9/168mm projection lens that has a similar rendering although my limited skills with the camera haven't gotten the same evel of images from it (yet!) as you have from your Kinoptik, Klaus.

Could you please post a picture of the Kinoptik lens.

Here are a couple of samples from my Visionar 1.9/168, it has a similar dreamy bokeh.

[kds315*]

Sehr schönes Portrait Klaus! Wirklich fein!!
(very fine portrait, really nice)

[exaklaus]

[exaklaus]

[iangreenhalgh1]

That is overall, similar to my lens, just a litle smaller, mine has a front diameter around 100mm and weighs about 2 kilos, not sure exactly, maybe more.

You're thread inspired me to take my lens out for a quick walkabout, I am about to post my own thread in homage, but I shall call mine 'fingerpainting' to acknowledge the lesser level of skill and the blatant plagarism!

I must say, you did a very nice job of remounting your lens, my mount is far more crude but does work nicely. I have experimented with fitting different fixed aperture disks to my lens but I still prefer the renderings it gives wide open, but using it is a challenge (a fun one however) because the depth of field is so razor-thin.

[Orio]

Very nice glamorous flare indeed.

[kds315*]

Nicely converted Klaus!

[Ignacio_Sottano]

Hi Exaklaus! First of all, amazing pictures! i came in a few years late haha but with some questions.
Is this one exactly your lens? Ive found some info on the web and it seems this lens is actually a 90º lens missing parts making it a 100 1.3, or maybe i am wrong?
Thanks in advance and again, congrats!

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[Ultrapix]

I have the same lens, mine came mounted on a sort of military device, perhaps a periscope (there was a prism).

Yes, it's a 1:1,3 100mm, and somebody in the web added the iris to it, and obviously the helicoid too. I didn't find the time to play with it, and I am probably going to sell it as is, for the joy of flou lovers.