Rodenstock Rodagon 40/4 WA

 Shots with Sony NEX5

Cropped from above

fully closed aperture

F8

Rodenstock Rogonar S 75/4,5

Usually I use this lens without lens turbo, helicoid only.
Recently I attached it on Zhong Yi Lens turbo and NEX5, Here's the results.

Rodenstock c Heligon 50/2

Rodenstock C Heligon 50/2 was harvested from this Kodak Retina Reflex camera (earlier post about this HERE ) the advance lever got stuck, so I decided to opened it. It turned out like this LOL..

Camera lens mechanism is not easy to handle, very different with previous cameras I opened. The words Synchro-Compur really make chalenge, how to open and make aperture blade & shutter blade controlled. I haven't managed to.. So this is now all wide open.
Dof is so thin, and look at the smoothness..
dimension..

Taking picture of white flower often not easy, some lenses cannot show the detail of flower. This lens does the job nicely

final appearance for now

almost macro, at home

It's been a while since last time I shot tiny creatures. Most in mind, shooting real macro shot must be taken at  ideal place, like river bank, forest, large garden etc.

EPM1+Rogonar-s 75/4,5

Actually the creatures are everywhere, even inside home.  Allahu Akbar, imagine if the spider has same size as human, maybe we're their food.

nex, rodagon 40/4

NEX, Volna9

EPM1, SK Xenoplan 35/1,9

NEX, Volna9

EPM1, SK Xenoplan 35/1,9

nex, rodagon50/2,8

Embung Batara, Sriten, Nglipar

Local government built ponds to reserve water.  The pond is called Embung. One Pond is located in highest mountain in Gunungkidul, Sriten. So they call it Embung Sriten, local people call it Embung Batara.

route from Malioboro street

It took almost an hour from Wonosari to the peak. It's because of unfinished road to there. When I was there on February 2015 workers did their job to finish. It will need high cost to accomplish all site including road, facilities etc.
But we can go there and enjoy the view. I think sunrise/sunset time will be great view.

All pictures were taken with NEX5_Rodenstock Rodagon enlarger lens 28/4

Rodenstock Rodagon 40/4 WA & SK Componon 40/4 WA

Rodenstock rodagon series have preset for aperture mechanism which can be set on certain aperture minimum (like Meyer preset), plus switch to change between click or smooth aperture transition.

Schneider Kreuznach componon has preset lever to switch from desired aperture to fully open aperture (like Helios 44-3 or Tair 11A preset), only click aperture no smooth option.

I cannot directly compare these two enlarger lenses because both have different back focus flange. Rodagon is shorter so that I cannot use same helicoid set up with Componon. I have to add m42 extension tube (thinnest) for Componon maximum use.

Rodagon

Rodagon crop

componon crop

Componon

 Shot comparison in sun light isn't good to judge color, tone, speed etc. Because in seconds light environment changed, so ignore these, I just wanna know how their sharpness at wide open.

Componon

Componon                                                                                Rodagon

Rodagon

My conclusion, Rodagon has better sharpness at wide open, however it has significant difraction at smallest aperture, f22, while Componon has less difraction.

At other aperture opening they perform similar except Componon has almost 5 star shape at f5,6 while Rodagon shaped pentagram. I will show you later.

Rodenstock Rogonar S 75/4,5

Cheap Rodenstcok enlarger lens, which performs not cheap in my opinion.
wide open shot in Sony NEX5. Click to enlarge images

with EPM1