Home Made Soft Portrait Lens

Jeff Bannow

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Nice! I wish I had something like that for my Hasselblad ....
 
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Reinhold

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Fitting a meniscus lens onto a SLR such as a Hassleblad, Mamiya, Bronica, or Pentax is not as easy as putting one on a flat lensboard.

Without machining a special adapter, some ideas come to mind...

... Adapt a body cap.
This is probably the quickest solution if the body cap has bayonet lugs.
A slip-on style body cap may need some way to better secure it to the camera.
The lens tube can be screwed, glued, or duct taped to the cap.

... Use an extension tube.
The bayonet end of an extension tube set is an ideal connection.
It could even be configured for interchangeable lens barrels.
Machine each lens barrel to fit into the extension tube base unit.
A light slip fit with an O-ring might be just the ticket...

... Cannibalize a junk lens body.
Depending on design, the bayonet end portion might make a good adapter.
Break out the hacksaw...

For our 35mm friends, the ubiquitous "T" Mount would let them fit smaller meniscus lens tubes with minimal fuss...

No excuses now: Go Forth and fill the earth with soft focus photo's...

Reinhold

www.classicBWphoto.com
 

Lee L

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This little ebook on CD-ROM might be of interest to those in this thread. It has a huge variety of mounting suggestions for many different camera bodies, shutter ideas, focusing mechanism ideas, sources for lens elements, etc.

http://www.surplusshed.com/pages/item/m2797.html

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nhemann

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I own this e-book and by way of a review I would say that given there is not a lot of information out there regarding how to build your own lenses its a good place to start with but after that it gets tedious with just build summary after build summary - the whole document is close to 1200 pages. There is little to no discussion on how to get the best out of the lens (by stopping down - even minimally) so the pics provided generally exhibit distractingly large amounts of aberration.

Also, while not specifically a problem with the book, LF lens makers should be aware that large format lenses are not discussed.

That being said, if you are looking to understand the basics of lenses and how to get one built and onto your camera its a good starting point, but it is certainly not the end all and be all of reference materials.
 

deltafour

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deltafour

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EBOOK

I would love to see this Ebook.

What's the name of it?


Delta






 

deltafour

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WOW! Thank you for the link to your site!

Thank you, Reinhold! You're a freakin god !

All those years of research you just filled in many pieces of the puzzle for me with just your site!

This is freakin GOLD!



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deltafour

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Hello, Reinhold

Didn't you have on your site, where you were selling your homemade lenses?

Delta
 
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