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Anonymous
Are soft-focus lenses considered obsolete with the advent of photoshop? Looks like they aren't produced anymore.
>> Anonymous
Canon still makes the EF 135mm f/2.8 SF.

I wouldn't say it's *obsolete* with the advent of photoshop, but I'm guessing that for those people who want soft focus, Photoshop is good enough. And the number of people who want soft focus nowadays isn't too big.
>> Anonymous
>>79889
I feel that soft focus is, for lack of a better word, passe. Certainly there is a use for it and there are people who definitely would purchase soft focus lenses. I don't think that photoshop makes it obselete, rather the nature of what soft focus is. When looking at an image with soft focus, I could insinuate that the focus was off. Photoshop only makes it easier, but the effect will never really go away no matter how much others might hate it. It will come and go like all fashions and styles do in some form or another.
>> Anonymous
>>79889
LOL FOCUS THAT CAMERA!
>> des
Nikon still makes one, the 135mm DC. Unfortunately, it's their only AF 135mm. It is pretty fucking sweet, though.

I might be wrong but that picture looks more like it was taken with a regular softening filter more than a selective defocus lens. The Nikon Soft 2 is my favourite of those type of tricks I've used.
>> Anonymous
>>79937
Picture is a photoshop hack job I just made, no optical tricks. Imitating selective defocus is harder, but I've seen plugins that automate that to a degree.
>> Anonymous
>>79937
Also, Nikon's 135mm DC-Nikkor is probably the only soft focus lens with separate control for foreground and background aberrations; Canon's counterpart has only one simple setting ("no blur" - "blur" - "moar blur")
>> Anonymous
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/111376.html
>> Anonymous
>>79889
Unless you want your photos to look like an old porn movie, don't use softfocus.
>> else !L6xabslN96
>>79980
old films still have some charm to them.

but its not soft focus that makes them look the way they do - its airbrushing. literally airbrushing the film reel frame by frame.