Hi Chuck,
Thanks for looking. I was surprised at the sharpness and contrast in B&W.
I looked at the contrail shot in B&W, but it just didn't show up as well as
in color.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Looking Through a Lens from the Past
> Mighty pretty and seems to perform well too on B&W. There's some chroma
> in the color shot but I'm sure the lens designer never conceived of it
> taking a photo in color.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 12/23/2010 1:57 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
>> As I get older, I find I am more interested in things from the past.
>> Among the gadgets that I have squirreled away is a landscape lens for
>> a dry plate camera, manufactured around 1890. The lens is a Ross
>> London No. 6 Symmetrical 8-inch focal length, to cover 5x7 inches,
>> and it is equipped with rotary Waterhouse stops from f/16 to f/64.
>>
>> I am in the process of fitting the lens to a M42-mount lens board to
>> permit its use on a Pentax bellows unit attached to my Olympus E-1
>> DSLR. For a dry run, to be sure that I had the dimensions correct, I
>> assembled the parts in a temporary manner to take a few test shots.
>> All shots were hand-held; I'm sure that the use of a tripod would
>> improve things.
>>
>> The lens itself. A similar lens is shown under Ross on the
>> Camerapedia.org website:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Ross+Lens+2.jpg.html
>>
>> A black and white image to look at sharpness and contrast:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Michelin+bw.jpg.html
>>
>> 1890 meets 2010; a contrail with a faint view of the passing jet:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Contrail.jpg.html
>>
>> I will find some period subjects when I get the project completed.
>>
>> Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA
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