CV 90mm f3.5 Anyone have samples or thoughts?

[RdEoSg]

Well I haven't had a chance to use it yet but I think I will take it to church with me tomorrow. Wish me luck!! Might play with the 15 a bit too 😛

 

[pab]

Awesome photos Per - I really like seeing RF cameras used for this kind of work - well done.

Thanks John- I find rangefinders perfect for mountain travel. I don't understand why more people don't use them!

Per

 

[John Robertson]

I have two 90mm lenses, the CV one and an Elmar-C, I haven't tried it with B/W as I more of a wide angle person, but in colour it easily outperforms the Elmar. The attached shot on my very last Kodachrome 25, shows incredible detail in an A3 size print.
I would think however it could be a very unkind portrait lens, every blemish would show, nice for character shots, but I doubt if the wife/girlfriend would be impressed😉
The second picture shows what it can do close up, mounted on a Bessa T, for more accurate focussing. this time on Ektachrome 100.

 

[RdEoSg]

Great shots John! I tend to lean a bit more towards the brutal look than the nicely soft look!

 

[John Robertson]

Chris, with B/W I think you could be as brutal as you like with this lens, would be good for detail in say, engineering shots. Or if another type of brutal is your thing, S & M shots😀
As we say, "whatever it takes to float your boat!!":angel:

 

[Jocko]

Chris, with B/W I think you could be as brutal as you like with this lens, would be good for detail in sayS & M shots😀
As we say, "whatever it takes to float your boat!!":angel:

I'm bobbing off to the shop right away! 🙂

Ian!

 

[RdEoSg]

He read my mind!

 

[John Robertson]

Thank God you can't read mine, I got a picure in my mind I'd rather not have!!!😱

 

[Trius]

John: Forget the pictures in your mind (I know I'm trying to!), keep making the kind of pictures you posted. Both are very nice; my wife loved the deer shot, and also liked the trillium. You could probably sell that for use to the province of Ontario; it's the provincial flower, and in the spring one finds them everywhere on forest and woodland floors.

 

[John Robertson]

Didn't know that about the Trillium, its a beautiful thing, we have them in the local Botanic Gardens, they are white at first then they close up and when they reopen they have changed colour. Amazing.
I know the provincial flower in Saskatchewan is the Tiger Lily, I have spent quite a bit of time in Saskatoon, but I've been a lot of places in Canada,including Toronto, even been in Yellowknife in the NWT.
The deer was pure luck, got one shot then it was off. Put it in a club competition, judge said the deer should have been facing into the frame!!! Must have thought it was stuffed, I know the judge should have been!!

 

[Trius]

ROTFL! Photo competitions mostly show us about the judges, not the photos.