I recently bought an old lens of the Petzval design from Andrew Plume who has been very helpful. It's quite a different experience to the sharp modern lenses with their flat planes of focus. It's also far more absorbing than using a cheap plastic lens or bit of bottle glass because the focussed areas are sharp - in fact remarkably sharper than I anticipated. I tried b&w film which gives an interesting olde worlde feel and noted the very low contrast. So I thought, I'd give E6 a go and also C-neg film. The contrast in colours adds a lot in my view. The glass in the lens has a definite colour of its own which I have cancelled out in both the following examples.
The first one is taken on Velvia 50. Vignetting is due to the considerable movements I applied. There is a bit more picture on all sides, but the Epson film holder clipped them off - they can be retrieved with a better scan.
The second picture was taken on Portra 160NC. The mixed lighting was interesting... Orange and green overhead, blue from outside; the lens is slightly yellow; and conversion from neg gives a cyan cast.
Any comments? Improvements? Suggestions on how to develop this aspect?
Does anybody have any experience of selling this type of picture?
Regards,
Charles
Petzval + colour film
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Re: Petzval + colour film
It's something I've wanted to play with for a while, just been trying to find out how to get a good lens for it (might have to just try samples from ebay and then resell if crap).
Have you taken a straight shot wide open (i.e. no movements) - I'd like to see one taken in the woods to see how it swirls.. (three dimensional branching structures make nice swirly shapes).
Tim
Have you taken a straight shot wide open (i.e. no movements) - I'd like to see one taken in the woods to see how it swirls.. (three dimensional branching structures make nice swirly shapes).
Tim
Waiting for the developing bill - 2 hours (and it's so small now!)
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Re: Petzval + colour film
Note to self - don't buy a lens from Timtimparkin wrote:(might have to just try samples from ebay and then resell if crap).
Tim
Re: Petzval + colour film
Hi Charles...Charles Twist wrote: Any comments? Improvements? Suggestions on how to develop this aspect?
Does anybody have any experience of selling this type of picture?
Regards,
Charles
I particular like the first one, it's quite beautiful the way the lens get almost everything so sharp in the first plane and make a complete "mess" on the backgroung. I would also have done in B&W as in my opinion works better with these kind of lens.
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Re: Petzval + colour film
Hi Charles
I prefer your first image - oh and thanks for 'the plug' for me, certainly appreciated
best regards
andrew
I prefer your first image - oh and thanks for 'the plug' for me, certainly appreciated
best regards
andrew