[pure-silver] unsharp lens
- From: Shannon Stoney <sstoney@xxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 15:45:27 -0500
----- Original Message ----- From: "Shannon Stoney" <sstoney@xxxxxxx>
To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 12:46 PM
Subject: [pure-silver] spoiled by my new lens
Oops, I have had a hasselblad for a year now, and I have just been
printing negatives I made last summer with it. I photographed the
same subject (an old farmhouse) with my 150mm lens on my view
camera, and the view camera negatives are decidedly inferior to the
medium format Hasselblad negatives. I think it might be because
the view camera 150mm lens is not very good. I got it when I was a
student, about eight years ago, and it was very inexpensive. It is
a Sinaron S, and it seemed fine until, oh, I guess today.
I know that price is not always proportional to quality, but...I am
thinking of upgrading. What would be a view camera lens that is
like the lens on the Hassie? I love that lens. It's the Zeiss C
T*. Does Karl Zeiss make lenses for view cameras?
(PS I also like my plastic Holga lens. I'm not a lens snob really!)
--shannon
Sinaron is a house brand of Sinar for lenses it buys from
various manufacturers. The Sinaron-S is supposed to be a Rodenstock
Sironar, which is a very high quality lens. What faults does this
lens seem to have? Its possible its just a bad lens but it may also
be damaged or an element may be out of place or something else that
can be fixed.
The main makers of large format lenses currently are Schneider
and Rodenstock. Zeiss has made lenses in the past but I don't think
they make any now. Fuji and Nikon have also made some excellent LF
lenses in the recent past.
Also, what format is your view camera?
4x5. When I look through the lens it looks clean. But the 4x5
negatives just aren't as sharp as the medium format negatives. How
would you be able to tell if an element was out of place? Could a
repair guy tell that?
It seems as if it used to be sharper. Maybe something did get a
little out of whack. It also doesn't seem as sharp as its friend and
companion, the 90mm lens.
--shannon
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