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Can't find it? Make your own lens! (soft focus in that case)
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 1:30 am    Post subject: Can't find it? Make your own lens! (soft focus in that case) Reply with quote
Well after searching for years for a Kalosat diffusion soft focus pictorial lens with no result, I finally
decided to make one. I took a quartz meniscus lens of about 120mm focal length, an old lens barrel,
some focusing helicoids and my camera, and well, here are now some results of that contraption at
various aperture settings. The lens element itself should be about f4. The "diffusion" effect gets quite visible.



some crops:



PostPosted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 4:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Klaus, that works! Two thumbs up!
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