I like it as is! Nice image. K.

Pentax LX, SMC Pentax 135mm f/2.5 lens, Kodak Portra 160 film.




K.

Tilt the lens the other way to get a bigger depth of focus and it'll help make it look like the real thing. After all, the 'toy' effect is because we are used to small things having a small depth of field and big things having a large one. If I ever get the Samyang TS lens I'll let you have a play.

K.

Your poll also doesn't allow for yes to all three!

At the moment I get low res scans done when they are developed, and do higher res scans for 35mm myself on a Minolta film scanner. For 120 and 5x4 I'm stuck at the moment, although we are getting an Epson V750 Pro at work.

Cheers, Kris.

I've been away for a while and my lovely lady has been buying Amateur Photographer for me. She has, however, also been away and so I missed last weeks issue dated 13.4.2013.

Would anyone who has finished with their copy be kind enough to let me have it for an appropriate remuneration?

Many thanks, Kris.

Nope, nothing to do with the way the camera processes the scene but a deliberate effect of using the tilt of the lens. Normally, lens tilt/swing etc is used to improve the depth of focus* using the Scheimpflug principle. Tilting in the opposite direction, however, renders real scenes like models by minimising the depth of focus in a way impossible by simply using a wider aperture for a thin depth of field.

Best wishes, Kris.

*I do mean depth of focus which is a result of tilt+Scheimfpflug not depth of field which is the result of aperture.

Really great stuff there. I wish I was better at people!

Best wishes, Kris.

I do 95% of my editing in Lightroom and only drop into PS for some more specific tasks. For example, I find cloning out the marks and dust on the negatives easier in PS than LR (although, of course, that may have improved some 3.6 versions later... ). I suppose I ought to upgrade one day...

K.

I'm still using v. 1.4!

K.

I've been half-heartedly looking for one of these for some years but it does generally command a premium price. Unfortunately the gaps in my K series collection have shrunk to lenses I cannot afford like the K18, K30 or K200/2.5. Oh well... maybe I'll win the pools.

K.