Talk:Antique Camera Simulator

Construct validity?

This isn't a trade name or similar. Therefore if the title is more or less sound, then "antique camera simulator" (though its first capital is of course automated by the software).

But how is an "antique camera" being "simulated" here? The examples I see are more straightforward: old lenses on new (and often digital) cameras. Why not "Use of old lenses", or similar? -- Hoarier 15:41, 8 May 2011 (PDT)

Some of the old brass lenses are reportedly extremely sharp in the image center. Thus some good old large format lenses can give sharp images on frame sizes between Four Thirds and 24x36mm. You can work with these beasts, that's tested. The antique camera simulation becomes perfect when You have mounted an old lens together with old leaf shutter onto the apparatus, and the apparatus onto a tripod so that You can operate it better: shooting B with the focal plane shutter and additionally triggering the leaf shutter in instant mode or set speed.

You can also achieve disadvantages of old lenses. I had problems with achieving images from an old Zeiss Anastigmat. The resolution of that lens seems to be bad for small formats - maybe a lens type w/o that extreme sharpness in the middle, or the glass is no more in perfect order.

Conclusion: The simulation is limited to the sharp center of the lense's image plane. You're the lucky one if You can get out the cream of the crop.

Benefit of simulation: If You want to use your lens on an old Large format camera, You need not test it with dozens of expensive film sheets. You can check the lens on a simulator to see wether it's one of the good ones which delivers an extra-sharp image center as You need it for old style portraiture. So the construct is valid, even if the apparatuses shown on the page may be used for plain photography instead of simulations.U. Kulick 17:12, 8 May 2011 (PDT)

But my question was not "Is it a good idea to use old lenses on new cameras?"; it was instead "Is this about something other than old lenses on new cameras?"

You say above "you can check the lens on a simulator", and I wonder again whether I have misread the article and haven't noticed reference within it to (for example) some website that provides a simulation of what you get with a certain combination of lens, aperture, and sensor. I reread the article, and find within it: An alternate approach to nostalgic photographing can be the Antique camera simulator. That's a construction based on a modern type SLR and an old type lens or lens/shutter unit. So again, this seems to be about nothing other than the combination of a modern body (incidentally, not only a SLR) and an old lens (with or without an old shutter). What am I missing? -- Hoarier 21:34, 8 May 2011 (PDT)