What lens has "glowy" effect?

[vanylapep]

Kind of like the effect of the Minolta Rokkor 50mm 1.4 wide open.

Here's example (not taken with Minolta)


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[ZoneV]

Looks like a HDR, high dynamic range photo.
I love the Minolta Rokkor 58mm f/1.2 glow much.

[wolan]

I was able to get this with the Mamiya 55mm f1.8:





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[konicamera]

[quote="vanylapep"]Kind of like the effect of the Minolta Rokkor 50mm 1.4 wide open.

Here's example (not taken with Minolta)

How peculiar. I've used this lens on occasion in the past and I don't remember anything like this. What camera was this taken with? Is it an APS-C? Of course I can't say anything with any certainty, but I suspect this effect may be due to the way extraneous light bounces around in front of the sensor.

[iangreenhalgh1]

Fungus causes glow.

[Attila]

[luisalegria]

Wow !
Venice never looked so good - except in a painting.

[araucaria]

Take a few close pictures of the sea at windy days, then don't clean the filter, it will give this effect on all your lenses.

[spiralcity]

My 100mm Soligor had a bit of a glow to it. It's one of the reasons I sold it a week after purchase.

[kuuan]

my faulty M-Rokkor 2.8/28

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[TrueLoveOne]

[std]

Maybe some kind of diffuse filter - i think i have one but the effect was not very strong.

[kds315*]

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[edri]

Some other examples of lenses with glow?

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[iangreenhalgh1]

BTW, the glow effect in that beautiful Venice picture is due to the HDR toning that has been applied. I have had similar glow effects in some of my HDR work.

Not the best examples of glow but all I could find without doing a lengthy search of my hard drives:

Sankor 2.8/35 on Sony a850:



Mamiya SX 2.8/28 on Sony a850:

[Gerald]

Although OP suggests that the image is the result of glowing by lens, I believe the picturesque effect was obtained by post-processing through manipulation of tones. This is very clear when you compare the histogram of the photo presented with the histogram of another picture. The original image histogram has basically only one peak in dark tones, and then decays gradually. Note how the highlights have been strongly compressed. In a more normal photo, the histogram has multiple peaks for various tones, and does not suffer from an artificial compression of the highlights.

Histogram of original picture of Venice:


Histogram of "normal" picture of Venice:

[std]

I remember Meyer Diaplan 2.8/100 had a heavy glow - so heavy that it looks unsharp.
It was so bad that i tough the lens is badly reassembled by previous owner.


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[jamaeolus]

I've gotten some glowy shots with the legendary Meyer Trioplan 100 2.8 when shot wide open.

[aeropic]

I tried to experiment with an Helios 44-2

reversing the front lens may lead to extrem swirly effect and/or the blur effect here after:
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disassembling the front element to remove only the second lens gives a kind of monocle effect:
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All those effects can be trimmed when the diaphragm is closed ...

regards
Alain

[vanylapep]

[Macca]

The original Fujinon 55mm 1.6 in M42, has quite a glow wide open.Would need to sift the hard drive for a sample, may try later as I`m working.

I originally thought it was due to being a poor quality lens but with hindsight I think it was an "effect" lens as I bought that and a 135mm 2.5 Fujinon from an old wedding tog on ebay.

[std]

[TAo2]

Glow or glowy lens = spherical aberration. Best examples are older Leica lenses, but sssh don't tell Leica owners that. They think the prices they paid are for higher quality and exclusivity....