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Late Autumn...

Dr Klaus Schmitt

Well-known member
late Autumn... [beware if you have vertigo...]

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with experimental Lyman Alpha II f1.1/90mm CAT lens
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
These are so beautiful. However, the lens is a challenge to use. One does need to have a control of the weirdness it can deliver.




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In the very first picture, it iseems tack sharp in the twigs, (but it isn't), and then this acts as the grounding and reference for the important "spacey" LSD background.

What are your ideas for where you can get the most out of this interesting optic?

Asher
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Now this is totally wild, Klaus. This is wizardry. nothing less and you pulled of the spell just right!



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I am amazed by the beauty and boldness you have drawn with this optic!
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
So what is the difference between the three examples you have? Do you believe there are more out there to buy?

Asher
 

Dr Klaus Schmitt

Well-known member
Well, indeed, this lens is a very special beast: This SHROOM/LSD-effect I used happens when slightly defocussed. Certabily not a lens for every day, but used at the right moment, no other I know could produce such images!!

Nope, there will be no others: in 2012 I was able to acquire three remaining prototypes of those lenses, made 1992, which came from company of the inventor, Richard Nye and his company, Nye Optical of La Mesa CA, when his son liquidated the remains after the passing of his father. I was very excited to find such lenses, but they turned out to be a bit tricky to convert and adapt to digital cameras. Now with mirrorless ones, it looked rather promising... and I finally succeeded this year.

I got one f1.1/90mm Lyman Apha II lenses and two f2.8/200mm Lyman Alpha I lenses, of which I recently sold one. The f2.8/200mm is much more "tamed" than that "wild horse" f1.1/90mm...

The full album of images for the f1.1/90mm is here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kds315/albums/72157702692038345

Btw. all those lesnes were once made to record deep UV images, hence their "Lyman Alpha" name, which denotes the Hydrogen 121nm spectral line.

Here focused and defocused in comparison:

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Dr Klaus Schmitt

Well-known member
Wow. Love the abstract images. Can't say that I've ever seen anything like that just from a lens. Very artistic, unusual, and cool.
 
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