Candids / R3M-50mm Heliar Set

[B_Algood]

Taken last week with NPH-400, scanned from prints..

 

[B_Algood]

A few more from that roll..

 

[Abbazz]

Great photographs. Some of them exhibit a very pleasant paint-like appearance.

Cheers,

Abbazz

 

[raid]

I agree; these photos look great.
I have been looking for a Heliarlens, but I don'tknow whether the 50mm/2 is as sharp as the 50/3.5.

Raid

 

[B_Algood]

Thanks for the comments Abbazz and Raid, here's another example from this roll, taken inside a dark restaurant, wide open..I think it's pretty sharp !..

 

[Abbazz]

I have been looking for a Heliarlens, but I don'tknow whether the 50mm/2 is as sharp as the 50/3.5.

Raid,

I don't own a 50mm/3.5, but from what I have seen and read about this lens, I don't think the 50mm/2 is as sharp as its elder brother. But being a Heliar formula lens, it exhibits the qualities that made its glorious predecessors so famous (think of the legendary Voiglander Germany apo-lanthar of same optical formula): it has nice out of focus areas rendition, very pleasant colors, and it's not an overly contrasted lens, making it very suitable for portraiture. Just like on this great picture from B_Algood that I borrow from another thread:

Cheers,

Abbazz

 

[shodoman]

I just got my r3m set and have to say I think it's pretty sharp. Here's a test shot from my first roll.

 

[anabasis]

I doubt the f2 lens will be as sharp as one of the sharpest lenses ever made, the f3.5 version of the Heliar, but sharpness isn't everything.

For me it's plenty sharp with my only 2 nit-picks being that it vignettes a bit wide open and it has a rather paltry 1 meter closest focusing distances.


JCA

 

[lZr]

Good shots, but I think better to scan the negs and not oversharpen.

 

[ywenz]

For the first 6 colour ones, what's with the smoothing?

 

[B_Algood]

Was trying out Noiseware, won't use it again...

 

[ywenz]

That will be a good thing. The pics look horribly smoothed out.

 

[Avotius]

agreed, but that other black and white shot posted seems to have a little bit of that going on too, kinda icky looking IMHO, looks kinda like my gf's panasonic fx9 photos at 100%