Daily Archives: October 22, 2018

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Soft Focus Lens: Congo 150mm/F4

One nice thing about using a large format camera is that you have access to the best lens ever made most of the time for a very good price (e.g. a standard $200 150mm Plasmat lens is as perfect as they get). On the other end of spectrum are the soft focus lenses. I have a couple hundred years old Cooke soft focus lens which I will write about later. Today I want to talk about the almost-unobtainable Congo 150mm/F4 lens. Almost-unobtainable because this thing never comes up for sale, and I even had a couple people looking for it […]