{"id":10350,"date":"2025-10-19T14:57:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T14:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10350"},"modified":"2025-10-19T14:57:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T14:57:27","slug":"using-vintage-lenses-in-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10350","title":{"rendered":"Using vintage lenses in the garden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A garden view using the vintage Paterson enlarger lens at f5.6<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Garden view show the soft focus of a Brownie lens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In this second view the effect may be a bit too strong<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A different view of the garden using a Brownie lens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A garden view similar to the previous but using the Wray lens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A second garden view using the Wray lens. Again, the colour tones are different to modern lenses<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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#imagedump of photos taken on the day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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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 … Continue reading “Using vintage lenses in the garden”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,52,145,100,3,65,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-garden","category-imagedump","category-photo-effects","category-photography","category-technical","category-tests-and-trials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10350"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10372,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10350\/revisions\/10372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}