Marek,

Thank you for sharing this voluptuous image! It has inspired me to attempt something significant today.

Best regards,
David

On the LEE website the demonstrations seem to suggest that the sheets are very thin and therefore difficult to build a stable cylinder. Is the thickness of the sheet an option when buying the product? Thanks in advance, Carlos Magno Hello Carlos, These filters bend easily as flat sheets, but form v...

Thats the WA 35mm I assume, not the 30mm enlarger lens? The enlarger lens had serious CA issues. @dmillard: I think you use(d) this Minolta MD 2.8/35 mm SLR lens, latest Series is MD-III http://www.artaphot.ch/minolta-sr/objektive/150-minolta-35mm-f28 http://artaphot.ch/images/Technik/Sony_E_Full_F...

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Best regards,
David

3) retrofocus means the WD is at least reasonably good - ................................................................................................... 4) Some of them eg the Canons are good, lightweight, optically modern designs and not comparatively expensive. 5) several of us probably have ...

+/- 20% strikes me as a narrow range, particularly for a lens with a modest aperture. It makes one wonder which optimization SK care about most. Perhaps it's distortion? I guess it would be necessary to look very critically, at the rated mag. Qioptiq's Inspec.x L 5.6/105 line-scan lenses have simil...

SK Makro-Symmar 5.9/120 SR 5.6/120-0059 line scan lens, optimized for 0.75X magnification. As Robert O'Toole has demonstrated, this lens works extremely well in conjunction with a reversed Xenon. $299 + shipping. Please PM me if you are interested.

The lens has now gone to a good home!

Well, for anybody that missed out on the Makro-Symmar, I will be posting one for sale very soon! :) As Robert previously said, usedparts-semifa is one of the best. I ordered the lens Thursday, and received it this morning before 9:00 am, extremely well-packed. I then quickly tested it against the Ma...

In 2012 I posted that I have a 35mm f/2.0 Mid 1977 (looks much like the one above) 28mm f/2.0 Approx 1943 (looks older!) That's interesting Chris. I just looked in Kingslake's History of the Photographic Lens , and according to him, the Schneider Xenon is an unsymmetrical six element double-Gauss l...

Thanks again for sharing the performance of this lens combo! From Schneider's data at https://www.schneideroptics.com/info/age_of_lenses/ , your particular 28mm & 35mm Xenons were produced in 1995 and 1996 respectively, but Schneider doesn't provide information about how long and how many of either ...

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The challenge now is locating either of the Xenons!

Thank you for another noteworthy test! What was the working distance with the stacked pair?

I use a variety of Lee filters, primarily as cylinders on my Mitutoyo and Olympus objectives. I often combine them with an inner layer of 214 Tough Spun to further cut interior reflections, or selectively mask them with black cardstock. Like Harald, I have found them to be very color neutral, but I ...

These are very nice images Leo96! And I also appreciated Enrico's erudite clarification of the subject material.

A quick test of the 7.5X with an Apo-Symmar 135mm f/5.6 shows that it easily covers the full frame of a Sony A7Rii at 4.91X. I think the darkened corners seen here may result from mechanical vignetting somewhere else in my system (the lens aperture, PB-6 bellows, or the Nikon-Sony adapter), rather t...