Som Berthiot Cinor-P 75mm/1.8 projection lens on Canon EOS

[ZoneV]

I was asked in the Berthiot 50mm/1.5 thread
http://forum.mflenses.com/som-berthiot-50mm-f1-5-projector-lens-t43610.html
to show images from my lens.

Here how it looks now after the simple conversion:



And here some of the test images I made with today for you:




Only now I see that we have the possibility to load images directly here into the forum, I had some problems with my webspace, ftp program doesn´t connect at the moment (with saved passwords, account...). I even need some time to get an online web ftp running - and had to load every single file extra :-/

Here my website regarding the lens - with full EOS 1000D sized images:
http://www.4photos.de/camera-diy/Som-Berthiot-75mm-1.8-conversion.html

[ZoneV]

First things to add:
The image is not super sharp on the EOS 1000D, I suppose it is a bit better on the EOS 5D with its bigger pixels. But the lens is not a competitor for the Zeiss 100/2.0 macro in terms of sharpness.

[martyn_bannister]

Like the vintage look. Thanks for sharing

[ZoneV]

Made some more tests: I got far behind infinity - but found no good object to photograph it. Moon is a bit small for the EOS 5D and 75mm combination today.
Now I have bigger images to show directly:



Image border sharpness is not that great in this pic. I had other pictures with sharp elements on the border - but not on the outer edges. Not sure if this lens is for 16 or 35mm film - and if 35mm film - which format. I suppose it is not designed for 24x36mm film format.

[alex ph]

That's a pretty impressive lens, both for excellent rendering of translucent surfaces and watercolour OOF.