Sunday in the park with the Wollensak

[luisalegria]

Wollensak 6 1/4"(162mm) enlarger lens on bellows, just wandering around Golden Gate Park.











Some humble bumble bees -

[Katastrofo]

Luis, they are all great shots, but the bumblebee set is superb, great focus
and lighting with stunning colors! Park security must be pretty lax to have
some one tramping around with such a contrivance!

[poilu]

great shots Luis!
but quality is very bad
if I get such a lens, it will go directly to the trash

[Nesster]

Very excellent! And I'm sure an extremely fun way to walk around with the camera too!

[maddog10]

Luis,

I like them all, except #1.


I love that one, who doesn't like nice vivid blue flower.

[lulalake]

Excellent! I didn't realize the Wollensak lenses performed so well.

Thanks

Jules

[luisalegria]

What park security ? That place hasn't got any. Thats why there are a fair number of "permanent residents".

A lot of these were backlit with afternoon sun, like the blue flower. I like that situation, it gives the opportunity (seldom attained) of a fluorescent effect.

I was surprised at the results too, I had tried this earlier and had some problems. Its really not a good macro/bellows lens as the focal length is too long and it needs too much extension to get really high magnification, and it magnifies shake too much even with IS. It has its uses though, it is reasonably sharp and permits a good "stand-off" distance if thats necessary - like with bees. It also zips back to "normal" range, and gets infinity, so it does double duty when called to it.

[patrickh]

Amazing and beautiful series luis. I have a Rodenstock 150 just dying to be tried out. It has a thread mount bigger than the M42 so I am going to try it reverse mounted on my D70.


patrickh