Dr Klaus Schmitt
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Then this might be for you, shot using a scarce scientific f1.1/90mm mirror lens
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Do you love bubbly bokeh?
- Thread starter Dr Klaus Schmitt
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James Lemon
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Very Cool Dr Klaus! I will admit that I am a Bokeh addict.
Dr Klaus Schmitt
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Welcome to the club James!!
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Anything that helps rank important versus unimportant in a subtle manner is valuable.
This lens does a great job of bringing in the boat to appear sharply from a blur.
I love it too!
Thanks so much for sharing!
What happens when the lens stops down or this is fixed?
Asher
This lens does a great job of bringing in the boat to appear sharply from a blur.
I love it too!
Thanks so much for sharing!
What happens when the lens stops down or this is fixed?
Asher
Dr Klaus Schmitt
Well-known member
Thank you Asher!
There are VERY few specialized mirror lenses which an aperture, and this one also does not have that,
but a built in ND-filter wheel. No change to the bubbles though.
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Jerome Marot
Well-known member
Can we have some info about the lens design? f/1.1 is very unusual for a mirror lens. The reason is that mirror lenses usually need a secondary mirror and a large aperture implies a large secondary mirror, which creates a large obstruction. Indeed the bokeh bubbles on your picture hint at a large obstruction as the "bubble" is very thin, but I find the whole idea puzzling.
It is possible to dispense with the secondary mirror by putting the camera at its place and that gives quite fast mirror lenses indeed (e.g. Celestron hyperstar, etc...). Is this what you used? That would be consistent with the horrendous coma aberration at the edge of the picture.
Dr Klaus Schmitt
Well-known member
The design is a very simple one and it is two mirrors ONLY! It was intended as a deep UV lens, to record images where glass and even fluorite / quartz lenses will not work anymore.
The is the sister lens, a 2.8/200mm one, as I don't have a picture of teh other one handy:
Tom dinning
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The lens looks really cool, Doc. Sort of thing I’d use to impress an astrophysicist.
As for the bokeh , Im less than ambivalent. Just a personal choice but is seems to be tizzing up a lousy photo. Or even good one.
Like a dag wearing a suit. Or a beautiful woman wearing too much makeup.
As for the bokeh , Im less than ambivalent. Just a personal choice but is seems to be tizzing up a lousy photo. Or even good one.
Like a dag wearing a suit. Or a beautiful woman wearing too much makeup.
Dr Klaus Schmitt
Well-known member
Well, I got it (actually them) as they reach down to 190nm and I do a lot of UV photography, so the bokeh was a kinda neat side effect ony ;-)
And it does things no others lens does from what I have seen yet; slightly defocused to get that "tunnel whirl effect":
and focused:
Jerome Marot
Well-known member
It is just two mirrors, but which ones? It is not as simple as it looks. What are the dimensions of the lens, in particular the diameter of the main mirror and the distance between the two mirrors?
Dr Klaus Schmitt
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Packed away, sorry....
The main mirror is approx. 100-120mm diameter from what I remember. The secondary approx. 50mm also from memory.