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Proof Shots Working The Bugs Out...

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 Posted 08/25/2012  03:40 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add aladinslamp to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
received my copy stand the other day and have been anxious to give it a try...its definitely worth the effort...I bought a durst 601 enlarger for the stand cheap on ebay, and it requires very little adjustments to change it over to a macro stand....Shot some close ups of a 86-s Roosevelt circulated proof...over all I think I'm heading in the right direction but the lighting is 2 big CLF bulbs,,,I'm shooting the coin upon a mirror, which is interesting as the lights reflections
don't seem to really interfere....
However as always there are a few bugs to work out when you get new stuff to play with....
here's the first shot

Proof-Shots-Working-The-Bugs-Out...all around it doesn't look to bad, lighting is not quite correct....focus looks close so I took another shot adjusting the focus using the bellows..


Proof-Shots-Working-The-Bugs-Out... all in all I think I am getting close, just have to tinker with the new set up and work some of the bugs out...
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 Posted 08/25/2012  11:38 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add rmpsrpms to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Good start! The detail shot (of the coin) looks pretty sharp. What lens was this with? The bug scares me...Ray
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Hi Ray, I have a few of the old lenses which are not in the main stream of cheap lenses...As I was looking for those cheap lenses, I also was doing lens reviews. for all lenses I was investigating, some thing I encourage all to do...
This lens, is one of my cheap lenses some months back, and the prices have dropped for most lenses as they are getting older still. But this lens is a
Polish lens, where no one has seem to gone before....
The lens is a AMAR/S 4.5/105mm lens...
now this lens is a 42mm screw mount, NOT flexible for most users, usable with in our criteria, the sweet spot is with the bellows at certain lenghts from the sensor...the interesting thing is, I'm trying alot of variables ....
old crap, out side of the suggested recommendations because I have them...This is one lens I would like to promote before others catch on..its cheap....say $25 bucks..
now here is the thing of this lens....
and perhaps you RAY or SD can comment on.....
its the "{depth of field for lenses."..
before I go into this, lets have some pic's..

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now my thought was,,,,,as this lens CHEAP..
and I only have re-sized them not any thing else,, I DONT KNOW HOW YET...but from my observations, many of these lenses have qualities of there abbility to have better depth of field for a particular lens...
just a thought

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by the way these two photo's were taken with the same lens in the same set up. but, using the bellows....fully compressed, and with extension tubes...there seames to be more than one focal point, one full coin and one semi macro, with only a height adjusment...
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