A Home Built Soft Focus Protar VII

I modified a Protar VII lens into a soft focus lens this weekend.

This is not necessarily a cheap solution for soft focus because the Protar VII lens is valuable in the first place. Another problem is that only the longest focal length Protar VII's are viable candidates. The one I converted was a 23 1/8" version and converted it is just 8" f4 focal length and covers only 5X7 and 4X5.

Photographs made with the lens are here;

http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com/ProtarSoft/ProtarSoft.html

Your comments are always welcome.

Jim,
Sorry Jim, but although the images are very interesting, I think you may have gone overboard with this one. Why make such an alteration, especially considering the variety of SF lenses in your possession, other than just to see if it can be done? Do you plan to put the Protar back in its original configuration? If so, I retract what I have said.
Jim

Jim Noel said:

Jim,
Sorry Jim, but although the images are very interesting, I think you may have gone overboard with this one. Why make such an alteration, especially considering the variety of SF lenses in your possession, other than just to see if it can be done? Do you plan to put the Protar back in its original configuration? If so, I retract what I have said.
Jim

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Haven't made up my mind yet. Yes, I'm just exploring. No need to retract any opinions.