Clydesdale Bank one pound note, reverse vignette
In response to several e-mail requests, here's nearly all of the battle scene found on the reverse side of a Clydesdale Bank one pound note, issued in 1982, and withdrawn in 1988. This was taken using the macro lens test rail shown in a photo posted previously. Here's the setup used, but with the projection lens mounted on the 105mm:
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For this larger area image the primary lens on the camera was a Nikon 105mm f/2.5 AI-S, aperture f/11, focused at infinity, with the objective from a Soligor 450mm f/8 telephoto lens reverse mounted on the 105mm. The Soligor (badly damaged... beyond repair) was bought cheap just for salvaging the objective. Using the Soligor objective required that the stage holding the banknote had to be moved back away from the camera almost to the limit of its travel. Lighting was provided by an overhead fluorescent lamp. Unlike the image produced by the 7 inch Kodak Projection Ektanon in a previous test, the Soligor does produce some softness in the extreme corners of the photo, but not to a degree where it's objectionable.
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Clydesdale Bank one pound note, reverse vignette
In response to several e-mail requests, here's nearly all of the battle scene found on the reverse side of a Clydesdale Bank one pound note, issued in 1982, and withdrawn in 1988. This was taken using the macro lens test rail shown in a photo posted previously. Here's the setup used, but with the projection lens mounted on the 105mm:
www.flickr.com/photos/61377404@N08/31086567744/in/datepos...
For this larger area image the primary lens on the camera was a Nikon 105mm f/2.5 AI-S, aperture f/11, focused at infinity, with the objective from a Soligor 450mm f/8 telephoto lens reverse mounted on the 105mm. The Soligor (badly damaged... beyond repair) was bought cheap just for salvaging the objective. Using the Soligor objective required that the stage holding the banknote had to be moved back away from the camera almost to the limit of its travel. Lighting was provided by an overhead fluorescent lamp. Unlike the image produced by the 7 inch Kodak Projection Ektanon in a previous test, the Soligor does produce some softness in the extreme corners of the photo, but not to a degree where it's objectionable.
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