Thambar-Crazy

[EoinC]

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I wonder if this lens appeals to those with good eyesight more than say, the short sighted. Since about five years old I have had to struggle (too strong a word) against blur and I don’t see the attraction of pictures which look like I’ve taken my glasses off and not got close enough. I can see it’s not the same kind of indistinctness but it provokes the same frustration in me.

Interesting perspective, Exodies. I just realized that I, too, have Thambar eyes. My World has gone a bit soft-focus in the last decade. I do, however, like many of the Thambar shots I am seeing, as I like not wearing my glasses.

To those who own the Thambar, please keep posting images. It helps me to think about how the World can be seen.

[LocalHero1953]

James Thurber was extremely short sighted and wrote an essay ('The Admiral on the Wheel') about the wonderful world he inhabited when he broke his glasses.

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[ianman]

I was buggering about in the garden today, trying to understand... I'm finding my preferred aperture setting is around f2.8 red scale, strangely, mine doesn't have any markings between f/2.3 and F/3.2. 

 

You want glow? We got glow...

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M9, LTM Thambar

 

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M9, LTM Thambar

[wattsy]

I'm still using mine around F8-F11 for landscape type stuff. I've never used a 90 very much in the past (other than my 90 Macro-Elmar for "macro") so the Thambar is as much a learning curve for me as a 90mm lens as it is for one that has an unorthodox look. However, here is one at around F5.6 that shows how uneven the field of focus is. No spot filter.

 

[wattsy]

This one is also at F5.6 (I think) and focussed a bit closer so the Thambar effects are correspondingly reduced. However, you can see in the Dog's Mercury outside the focus plane a bit of glow.

 

[wattsy]

At F11 and mounted on the Macro-Adaptor-M, the Thambar cleans up nicely and looks like any decent 90mm lens.

 

Edited April 18, 2018 by wattsy

[wattsy]

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And another at F11-ish but further away and with corresponding unevenness. I quite like the relative lack of contrast from this lens.

 

Edited April 18, 2018 by wattsy

[dkCambridgeshire]

At F11 and mounted on the Macro-Adaptor-M, the Thambar cleans up nicely and looks like any decent 90mm lens.

 

 

 

Super image …  hope to snap a few myself this week.

 

dunk 

[wattsy]

Thanks Dunk.

 

Here's one taken at, I think, around F5.6 which has a little of the Thambar twinkle in the highlights.

 

[ianman]

I'm still using mine around F8-F11 for landscape type stuff. I've never used a 90 very much in the past (other than my 90 Macro-Elmar for "macro") so the Thambar is as much a learning curve for me as a 90mm lens as it is for one that has an unorthodox look. However, here is one at around F5.6 that shows how uneven the field of focus is. No spot filter.

 

 

I took some last weekend stopped down and without the filter and - obviously - got the same type of effect. I must say, that at the moment, I'm not too keen on it, it reminds me of the lens-baby. And I understand why this would make some of our viewers feel a bit queasy!

 

Although it works much better in your photo!

 

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[ianman]

Dreamy or queasy?

 

M9, LTM Thambar

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[wattsy]

Perhaps both.   Nonetheless I find it quite compelling.

 

Dreamy or queasy?

 

M9, LTM Thambar

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[wattsy]

I'm not too keen on it, it reminds me of the lens-baby.

 

 

Wash your mouth out!   It's bad enough that Paul refers to Jack Vettriano in a recent post. I'm very happy for Peter H to express his scepticism (chime his bell of negativity or whatever it is that he has been accused of) in this thread but there are certain references that should be remain banned.

Edited April 19, 2018 by wattsy

[ianman]

I missed that reference, I quite like his paintings!  I do agree though, maybe mentioning the l***-b*** was a bit out of order and shall refrain from doing so again 

 

(even if it does look a bit like a lens-baby...)

[albertknappmd]

a few photos of my wife's piano teacher who was gracious enough to pose ....

 

Thambar f/3.2 with CSF and then PS to gray scale...

 

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here he is for formal head shot...

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and another.... 

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Edited April 20, 2018 by albertknappmd

[albertknappmd]

here is one with 50mm f/2 AA...

 

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[albertknappmd]

and one with 21mm f/3.4

 

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[wattsy]

I particularly like the last one Albert (the 21mm photograph) – a subject framed by a grand piano is always a classic pose.

 

Still firmly in the experimental stage, I've been looking at bokeh and other out of focus effects and I generally like what I'm seeing in the F4-F5.6 range.