April 10th, 2012, 08:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Ned
Thanks for sharing these, Lawrence! My oldest glass is a 1953 Jupiter-3, and I also find it to have a very unique, old-timey character to it. Since the invention of the "Pen Mini" it has also become one of my most used lenses, as it makes a very compact kit. ;)
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I seem to have a taste for pre-multi-coated lenses. The 1932 50mm Elmar that came with the old Leica is uncoated and I don't use it much on the Pen bodies. The two listed here are the only others I have. But I did once have a 1950's Hasselblad with three lenses from the same era. Those lenses remain among my fondest photographic memories. I don't think more contrast in a lens is necessarily always a good thing. When I was shooting a lot of 4x5 I much preferred my older Schneider lenses to the brand new overly contrasty Fujinon, and assiduously avoided Nikon lenses said to require one to decrease development times because of their lauded increased contrast. Not a recommendation for me.
Of the lenses featured here, the 90mm is sharper. The 135 is really an ideal portrait lense in its characteristics, but a bit long for that purpose on a 4/3 sensor. But I like the creaminess of the tonal rendering it gives, even at the expense of a bit of very fine detail. And it lacks much contrast at all, making preserving shadow detail easy with it, though producing a rather bland out of camera raw file.
Oh! I should mention that all the images posted above were developed in Lightroom 4. Just as in film days, I consider that what the lens puts onto the photosensitive medium is just information that I can use to make a picture. I like the process.
Last edited by Lawrence A.; April 10th, 2012 at 08:46 AM.
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