I like the different ways vintage lenses give different looks to a photograph compared to modern lenses. I have been out in the garden photographing flowers and hardware using different lenses; here are some of the results showing first a photo taken with a (cheap) Paterson 50mm enlarger lens from the 1970s:
What I like about this first photo in how strongly the edges are out of focus. I think much of it is because the budget lens is designed to focus a flat subject (the negative) onto a flat piece of paper (the print).
The next two photos are from using a lens from a 1930s-40s Box Brownie camera bodged onto a modern camera. For the first of the two I love the soft focus effect – I think I need to try it on some portraits:
In this second view the effect may be a bit too strong
For the next couple of photos I am using a 1930s-40s Wray enlarger lens. What I like about this lens is the colour tones more than the lens quality:
I am please with how these lenses perform in the garden but I need to try a range of different subjects to better understand how to use them. Below is an #imagedump showing the photos taken in this session:
