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Lomography Daguerrotype aperture plate

Started Feb 9, 2020 | Discussions
newmikey Veteran Member • Posts: 5,203
Lomography Daguerrotype aperture plate
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Storm Ciara is passing over the Netherlands so I was homebound today. Decided to make my own version of the "Aquarelle" aperture plate supplied with the Lomography Daguerrotype lens to try on my own Pentax gear.

I first found a reasonably clean image of those plates on Google, copied them into Gimp and sized them to precisely the 67mm filterthread size of my DA*50-135mm zoom (minus 1mm to fit it inside).

Double-printed it on the laserprinter after which I glued both sides together for firmness and to avoid reflections. About half an hour of fiddling about with nail scissors, I had my aperture plates. (also made a copy of the "Lumiere" plate).

Although I really have to wait for a sunny day and a field full of flowers to really pass judgement, I managed to squeeze a quick shot of the dog outside.

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petrochemist Veteran Member • Posts: 3,619
Re: Lomography Daguerrotype aperture plate
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This sort of thing has been on my to do list for years - I've done similar shapes for the affect on bokeh, but as yet only removing the rear group for a soft focus effect.

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dellaaa
dellaaa Senior Member • Posts: 1,201
Re: Lomography Daguerrotype aperture plate

I like the effect, so you put this directly in front of the lens?  I see you were wide open, what's it look like stopped down?

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