Pentax 67 vs Zeiss/Leica 3d effect

[Keith]

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!

 

[Steve M.]

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.

 

[jsrockit]

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.