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Just got this in the mail today.. as I checked my email and it said it had been delivered 2 days ago LOL... Thanks to the brother he had set it down stairs... so to night I went to check out the 1 buck grab bag... It had 2 lenses in it....the rest are filters and adapters and what nots?...
The first lens is the 180mm H.Roussel Paris stylor....
these are said to be ancient? but this lens is not... looks 70ish maybe 80ish... super clean but got some glue like from tape on the out side....
The next is the Rodenstock APO Radagon 50MM...
another super clean lens...but with some glue from tape on it, will have to clean it up....
any one have any ideas about these lenses for macro?...
I'm sure the 50mm will work out...
As my 3000th post this seems perfect!! get some pics in a moment or so, will have to gear up ...
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A 50ARD for $1 is quite a steal! Can't wait for the pics...Ray
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just a few moments... haven't had this thing hooked up in some time...supprising how many dead batteries you find..
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Nice. How did you manage to grab it for a buck?
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Ahh, typo. Should have written 50AR, not ARD. Nice lens nevertheless, especially since there is no such thing as a 50ARD!
I was wondering about the guitar, trying to figure out how you took a pic of the guitar with the enlarging lens...
The 50AR looks good. Still has the mounting ring on it, so has it ever been used?
I know nothing at all about the French lens. It is very long, so will require a huge setup to use for taking coin pics. You'd need 360mm of extension, and 360mm of working distance, to get 1:1. The camera will be almost 3 feet above the coin at 1:1, and would get even farther away for lower mag shots. Might work very well for infinity, or walk-around macro. I have a Nikon 200mm that is wonderful for walk-around. But even it reduces to something like 140mm at 1:1, so maybe you could set it up for taking pics of bugs from 3 feet away!
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AS for the lenses, actually 2 lenses, I bid on a bunch of micellanious stuff on the bay and I was that there was a rodenstock lens with another I couldn't identify, neither lens was stated what they were or identified.... I bid like 10 bucks and no one bid.. so I got it all for 99 cents and shipping...when it got here I found it full of the misc crap I thought and also the APO Radagon 50mm lens with the other H.Roussel a french lens of some sort..... So I actually got them for 50 cents each... the radagon is flawless, the roussel has oil on the apeture but it works fine. obviously the 50mm lens is for very closeup, and the Roussel with about 5 inches of 42mm extensions and one of those heliflex type barrel extenders that act like the cameras focusing ring gives me about 9 inches beyond the camera to focus with this 180mm lens....and the subject is about say 3 feet away, so its not bad... but its focus/depth of field is very finicky I didn't have t much time to work with it but I took a few quick shots and found its focus on the flowers very selective, meaning the sharpness is only within a small area and the rest bleeds of into the bocas.....with the Radagon 50mm its about 2 1/2 inches to the coin for focus...Its been a very long time since I took some picks and I havent mad any smily faces to help on the lighting,, so here aare some of the basic picks without figuring out how to get the best from the lens...Coins are the 50 mm flowers the 180mm Ray have you ever heard of a Radagon-P lens? its a 1:5,6 f-105mm f stops are from 5.6 to 32... any ideas what it is? Thanks Gene       |
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Nice find. You must have been rubbing that lamp.
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You stole those lenses! Nice pick-up.
"Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1981, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS), USMex, Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector. See my want page: http://goccf.com/t/140440 |
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Gene...105ARP might be their version for printing. If so you lucked out bigtime. Take a pic of it...
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I love this forum because it is filled with so many talented people with diverse interests. I am feeling guilty about hi-jacking threads, but I feel like a puppy in a butcher shop â€" everything is of interest. Gene, I enjoy the flower pictures and am pleased to find someone else that will stretch his legs (and imagination,) by taking a walk down the driveway. I picked up a cheap lens that apparently works so well it has a cult following, and thought I'd share... Made in Korea, marketed by Sears. 135mm, 1:2.8 and has both built in shade and provisions for screw on shade. I'm guessing the fair market value is about $20 or less. With a tripod and 4'+ working distance, it seems to work well.   I picked up a bug on a clover blossom.  Way out of it's element in a pine forest was this swamp iris. All of 6 feet from the dirt driveway. Original view and cropped.   Then there are these. I call them "pinkies." Original view and cropped.   I've never tried it on coins, but as a walk-about lens, I wanted to share. |
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RAY the place is a disaster...Its a room its a shop its a photo what ever LOL...between the sawdust I took took some quick picturs of the Radagon-p 105mm lens.. It's an interesting lens as its not the usual apeture adjusted by the ring on the outside of the lens but rather a locking nut for a fixed setting, there is a que... around F/16 marked within the F/5.6 to F/32 varients...it takes a small flat tip to move it from 5.6 to 32...IT IS NOT LISTED on the Rodenstock wiki page... and hard to find info on this lens....here are some pic's    Chute that's some nice photo's for a walk about lens..... here's some stuff around the house I have been playing with..Its been a while since I shot anything.....SO its great to learn some new things... WHICH IS WHY WE ARE HERE......even if this is a coin thing...I have to thank every one who contributes to this site...as it contributes to any endevor to learn how to get better shots at what ever your mind fancies....Here are some shots from an antcient 90mm vivitar....Mind you ...when you take an older lens and put it onto a new DSLR camera you loose all of the cool automatic functions..... "Dept of field" becomes your most important NEW best friend.......or you get lousy shots....I learned some things the other day which lent me some insight to these photo's....they may be flowers but in photography.....it has answered some questions that I have had in other areas..........     I still have a lot to learn on resizing but for now its enough to get the idea posted.... Ray what do you think of this lens? |
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The pics are from the Vivitar,,, I meant what do you think or ideas about this rodenstock-p 105mm lens or what it is?
Thanks Gene
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Gene...looks like a Printing lens for a commercial printer or scanner. Very nice! Was that part of your $1 deal? Rodenstock was big on contracting with printer and scanner companies. The 75ARD1 was done in fixed aperture version for a scanner company. Scitex contracted with Rodenstock for the optics in their scanners. This lens looks like it probably came from a commercial printer ("1-hour photo") machine. What was the aperture set to when you received it? ...Ray
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It's been sometime since I have had this and Think the F/stop was about F/11, although I have tried the lens across the board with good results....
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Posted 05/25/2014 01:36 am
opps he first pic is a guitar I am working on...the rest are the lenses I just got.
