| | Yeah, been a while, I've had other things to do.
A couple of weeks ago I visited Stuttgart, Germany. The weather was
rather bad and I was running a slight fever most of the time so my
photography wasn't quite like I had hoped it to be. After some
pondering, I had
taken only three lenses with me: a Zeiss Tessar 2.8/45mm, a VPK
Meniscus
6/75mm and a Schneider-Kreuznach Radionar 4.5/105mm. The Tessar is a
nice, small and very light lens, which is very sharp and contrasty. I
didn't anticipate really using it, but I took it with me just in case.
Well, I didn't use it - I found it too wide angle for my state of mind
at the time and boringly sharp,
just another run-of-the-mill very good lens.
The Radionar has a lowish contrast but is reasonably sharp and has a
really astonishing bokeh, something to be seen to be believed:
I extracted the Radionar from a broken down 6x9 folder camera
(built in 1938) and glued it to
the front of an about 40mm long M42 extension tube for mounting on my
EOS 350D - the finished assembly weighs only slightly more than the kit
lens. This lens is much less well corrected than modern high
quality
lenses and produces a much better bokeh with practically no disturbing
artefacts, something none of my Takumars, Tessars, Planars and Sonnars
are capable of. The low contrast can easily be enhanced afterwards to
produce quite nice pics:
However, the lens I really prefer is the 1915 vintage VPK Meniscus Achromat, which can
produce really magical photos, very soft and with lots of flare. Here is a view of the Staatstheater on
March 12:
Here is a shot of the statue of Schiller seen against the sky:
And some platans covered with ivy (in Tübingen):
More photos from my trip can be found at http://galactinus.net/vilva/retro/bwde_sg.html
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