Smoking Ribbon !
Interesting early morning walk today - usual route up the Lane, bright sunlight but a bitter little wind. A valley house is being reburbished and as a result discarded building rubbish and sometimes very outdated house contents are temporarily left in a small yard. I always look on the basis there might be something to photograph. Today there was a very old, dirty and jammed photo slide projector - but no longer.
Back in my workshop I managed to remove the lens and then spent an hour cleaning it - surprisingly it seems to have scratches only on the outside.
So why bother?
I've put my camera on a tripod, attached extension tubes and then held the newly cleaned projector lens to the end of the tubes. There is no easy focus, just a case of either moving the tripod or the subject a piece of ribbon - all a bit of hit or miss.
This photo is my first attempt!
I wasn't expecting great sharpness and or great depth of field - I haven't either. What I did suspect I would get was 'BOKAH' and I'm not disappointed!
Argus 4" f2.8 Projector lens
Smoking Ribbon !
Interesting early morning walk today - usual route up the Lane, bright sunlight but a bitter little wind. A valley house is being reburbished and as a result discarded building rubbish and sometimes very outdated house contents are temporarily left in a small yard. I always look on the basis there might be something to photograph. Today there was a very old, dirty and jammed photo slide projector - but no longer.
Back in my workshop I managed to remove the lens and then spent an hour cleaning it - surprisingly it seems to have scratches only on the outside.
So why bother?
I've put my camera on a tripod, attached extension tubes and then held the newly cleaned projector lens to the end of the tubes. There is no easy focus, just a case of either moving the tripod or the subject a piece of ribbon - all a bit of hit or miss.
This photo is my first attempt!
I wasn't expecting great sharpness and or great depth of field - I haven't either. What I did suspect I would get was 'BOKAH' and I'm not disappointed!
Argus 4" f2.8 Projector lens