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Another oscilloscope lens, but this one is of much higher quality in every aspect. Wollensack Oscillo-anastigmat 75mm f1.9 is a sturdy all glass and metal and quite a big lens with an excellent IQ. Bokeh is rich, pleasing, with a hint of swirl. More controlled, I would say, than HP (Raptar).
Taming Nikon Zf with vintage range finder lenses. Very pleasing combination. There are quite few reasons to slow down.
Starting with seting NON_CPU lens in menu. My first camera that will report vintage lens name and f-stop in EXIF data (when properly set on camera).
Subject and eye recognition make manual focusing faster and more accurate.
It is snowing outside. Not in the mood to get out. Some dry flowers and Christmas lights for bokeh Wednesday.
Wollensack Cine-Velostigmat 1 inch (25mm) f1.5 is somehow forgotten in my drawer. I never succeeded to find out what is wrong with this lens. It does not work well with any of my C-mount adapters. No infinity focus. Very long MFD and similar problems.
It is said to be of Petzval design with 4 symmetric elements in 4 groups. I played with with outer elements and here are the two typical results.
This is a result I usually get from gauss lenses with rear element inverted.
Nikkor AF 50mm f1.4 D was the lens I bought as a everyday lens for my old D600 SLR.. Autofocus was done by camera. Nikon Z line of cameras lost this ability so no AF for 50mm f1.4 D anymore.
It is based on and continuation of line of AI Nikkor fifties and share wit them optical design and aperture ring on camera. So, it is very capable MF lens when used with Zf.
I posted the same monochrome image few days ago.
Oscillo-Anastigmats colours a natural and but needs some work in development. As expected for an industrial lens.
There is an invisible tamaris tree in the background. It gives this "air is very hot" look to the bokeh but otherwise lens deleted it.
Photos taken with yet another remarkable Voigtländer vintage lens. Septon 50mm f2. This one is, maybe, less known than Nokton and Ultron. It is just a hint less sharp wide open than those two, but that is not an issue. Contrast is excellent even when pointed to direct light. it has no noticeable aberrations.
Bokeh is well controlled and less spectacular than one produced with its siblings.
... in monochrome. Nikon Series E 50mm f1.8 stil gives a lot of blur in the background. The more and more, at least with 50mm lenses, i start to lean towards slower f1.8 and f2 ones. They give better ratio of sharpness, depth of field, separation and the bokeh than super fast f1.4 end faster.
Isco Göttingen Iconar 85mm f4.5 is a slow but very fine lens from a Diax camera. Diax was a rangefinder camera with exchangeable lenses: 35mm, 45-50mm (usually Xenon and this one.
I do not have much information on this lens. I suspect that it is optically the same lens as the Isconar 100mm f4.5 (which is actually 88mm). I have not opened it yet, but it seems to be a triplet lens. The aperture mechanism is put between the rear element and the camera, which gives me a weird feeling.
At f4.5, without surprise, it is very sharp and clean. Bokeh is not rich, but it is gentle and quite smooth. It renders as a triplet lens. Balls are small and not as pronounced as with Trioplans.
A nearby storage that is unused since Covid, took fire on Christmas day. Neighbourhood was full of smoke and worried people.