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I don't usually use any filters. You certainly can and perhaps you can improve things with them, I don't know. Most filters are for UV protection, haze, or adjusting color based on lighting conditions. Not sure how applicable a lot of these are in a fixed studio environment.
One thing I was thinking, and will try once I am settled and unpacked again, is using a UV filter with the Jansjo's. I'm wondering if they have significant UV content that might mess up exposures or white balancing.
Would love to hear from anyone on the usefulness of various filters for coin photography. This is one area I have not explored...Ray
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I forgot to mention, I walked into a thrift store and they had a Bellissar Film developeing stand,,I was drueling...This thing had a bellows above and below the image plate...much like what I have been talking about...the copy stand is
about 3 and 1/half foot high... It is a complete set for dark room developing your own film,,,has a vivitar 75mm,enlarging lens, looks like a 39MM lens...comes with all kinds of developing packets and chemicals, They wanted $150 for the lot, but I only was drueling at the stand....As it has in its current state, an upper rail adjustment, and the separate lower rail system....
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I am amazed that no one has commented on this developing stand, as it could be converted, its fully a dual rail system, an over sized bellows ,with abilities of adjusting the upper and lower belolows my meaning is one could adjust the lens to the coin OR the coin to the lens.... Mean while, I did take on some suggestions on another thread ..for my El Cheapo lenses,, these 2 pics are from my Chinon 135MM on a bellows,These are from an old school lens,   |
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Ray, is the link you provided for the tominion thread still valid?need to know.Gene.
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Gene...I thought you bought that one. It's gone now unfortunately.
Regarding the developing stand, it sounds too big for me. The stands I use have very small footprint on my desk. Something like that makes sense in a dedicated darkroom and especially for large prints but for macro photography I prefer more compact solutions...Ray
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I bought that lens Ray, I did find your link to the 40MM adapter so I can use it, thanks....Gene
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Contact me for photographic equipment or visit my home page at: http://macrocoins.com |
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As always, thanks for the clue's,, what is/does the LU for/stand for?
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No idea, probably just a brand designator.
Another designator which I'd like to know more about is on the Tominon duplication lenses. They have a couple series: E36 and E66. I have a couple lenses from each series. Anyone know anything about these?
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Contact me for photographic equipment or visit my home page at: http://macrocoins.com |
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Ray your terrible, giving my searches away!  thanks for posting these lenses... |
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When shopping be careful to distinguish between Componon and Componar lenses both made by Schneider. The first was the upgrade model and considerably better but not all used sellers will make the distinction.
I have had bad luck with some lenses marked Apochromatic. They were corrected for color as advertised but made for large format use and not all that sharp when using just the center. Most I saw were not coated.
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so the Componon is the better of the 2 yes?
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