Re: Mutars & other supplementary lenses

[corkflor (Alex Hurst)]

Bob (James Peters' Dad) wrote:

>My experience with the supplementary tele and W.A. add ons made by Yashica
>was that they vignetted, and by the time you cropped the dark corners, you
>were back where you started from, with a degraded image to boot.
>
>I hear people talk about the Mutars, and it sounds like there are some
>assumptions being made that these are better than the generics.   Maybe they
>are "better", but are they really capable of turning out a decent photo?
>I've never talked to anyone who had used them.  I must confess, for the
>asking prices I see for them, I doubt I'll ever own one, but WOULD like to
>know if I'm missing something.
>

I tried both the tele and w/a Mutars on my 2.8E a few years ago and was
very disappointed with the results from both. Softness at large apertures
and vignetting (and still pretty fuzzy) at small ones. Luckily my friendly
dealer had lent them to me on approval, so I bounced them straight back.

For w/a, use the old 2 foot zoom apparatus - assuming you're not standing
with your back to the edge of a cliff.

For tele, you're better off using the enlarger as a zoom. In MF the quality
should hardly suffer at all.

Slan

Alex

Alex Hurst
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