In the March/April issue of ViewCamera Magazine there was a brief article by Jay Allen about using Vintage Pictorial and Soft-Focus Lenses such as Portarit Ektars, Vitax/Veritos, Imagons etc...

In the Article there was a reference to a book titled Pictorial, Soft Focus and Portrait lenses from the Past. I looked everywhere including amazon.com and cannot find it. Any tips on finding this book? I believe the author of the article also wrote the book.

Thanks! Steve

-- Steve Nieslony (sejn@pacbell.net), April 13, 2000

Answers

I think you have to order it from him. He has a website at www.escape.to/jays where you should be able to get in touch with him to order it. DJ

-- N Dhananjay (ndhanu@umich.edu), April 13, 2000.

There's a very interesting website that explores the use of old box camera and other lenses for soft focus. It's fairly lavishly illustrated, and well worth a look.

Go here

-- Pete Andrews (p.l.andrews@bham.ac.uk), April 13, 2000.