Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
Thanks ... from memory I think it was TX320.
I think the 3D effect or whatever you want to call it happens in images where the foreground and background have a certain OOF ratio from the chosen point of focus. It's not constant and seems quite random to me!
I think the 3D effect or whatever you want to call it happens in images where the foreground and background have a certain OOF ratio from the chosen point of focus. It's not constant and seems quite random to me!
Steve M.
Veteran
Some Summicron lenses are famous for this. In MF, the only lens I know of that consistently produced real 3D like images for me is the one that most people know of (but no one mentioned), the Voigtlander 105 Heliar. A close second, and it wasn't usually that close, was a Planar on a Rolleiflex I once owned. Neither are SLR lenses. The 105 Heliar is the best lens I ever owned.
I think it's true that a film camera won't produce a 3D image like a digital camera, but to me that's a point in film's favor. I don't care for digital's over sharpness of edges, nor the way bokeh looks w/ it. If we're talking B&W you can eliminate digital right off the bat anyway. Grain has nothing to do w/ 3D, you have to have the right lens and the right subject to consistently get this effect.
I think it's true that a film camera won't produce a 3D image like a digital camera, but to me that's a point in film's favor. I don't care for digital's over sharpness of edges, nor the way bokeh looks w/ it. If we're talking B&W you can eliminate digital right off the bat anyway. Grain has nothing to do w/ 3D, you have to have the right lens and the right subject to consistently get this effect.
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I remember this was one of the first photos I took with my Crown Graphic and one of the first I had ever taken where I felt I could walk into the scene ... LF is the bomb for 3D effect IMO!
Quite beautiful.