Scitex LFOV Lens Test Preview

Robert OToole ·

After 6 days in Cedars Sinai hospital in Los Angeles for an unfortunate medical issue I’m back at 100% and feeling great, but now I’m really behind on my lens projects. I have been able to post a preview of the latest project, the Scitex LFOV lens, follow this link to check it out:

https://www.closeuphotography.com/scitex-lfov-lens

The page is only a preview but I will be updating this page with test results as soon as I can.

Any experience or information you have to share on the LFOV, be sure to send me a message!

Best,

Robert

Can't Believe the Lens Made it Okay

Robert OToole ·

This morning Fedex dropped off a box but I was a little surprised. The package looked like something out of the garbage bin. Was it a joke?

This was a shipment of a Scanner-Nikkor ED lens from an eBay seller. All 4 corners were torn open but thankfully the lens was still inside, tucked into a roll of bubble wrap and a-okay.

I don’t fault Fedex at all for the damage to the box. The shipper used a 0.5mm thick (measured) re-used carton and that was the issue. At least the guy used bubble wrap around the lens!

For the record, the shipper, https://www.ebay.com/usr/nikon_coolscan replied to a message about the damage, “evert tenth package is really trashed have no control of that.”

Mitutoyo QV Quick Vision Measuring Machine Teardown

Robert OToole ·

After 2 years of sitting in my garage gathering dust, my QV scope finally made it into my office to begin the teardown process. The original owner had lost the software keys to use the scope so it was sold for parts only and that means I would not be able to use in the factory configuration. This is the most complex scope I’ve ever handled so the goal of the teardown is to see what parts I can use for photomacrography. The scope has a total of 6 fiber optic lights and all movements are powered, XYZ, even the objective zoom and ring light are all powered. It’s a massive unit and surprisingly heavy.

Let me know if you are interested in anything from the scope, the objective has already been sold to offset the cost of the scope.

Any questions or comments, send me an email.

Closeuphotography News August, 2020

Robert OToole ·

The Closeuphotography office has been really busy the last few months even after months of lockdown.

These are the projects we are working on at the moment, I’m not joking, we really have started all these projects!

Heidelberg / Linotype-Hell Topaz 2 High-End Scanner Lens Test

Rodenstock CCD Objektive 5/98.7 Scanner Lens Test

Screen Cézanne High-End Scanner Lens Test

Fuji Lanovia Sprint C550 High-End Scanner Lens Test

Rodenstock Linos Magnagon 5.6/75 Scanner Lens Test Update

Fujinon EFC Lens Line up and Test

Fujinon EFC 5.6/108 Minilab Lens Test

Schneider Kreuznach Makro-Symmar 5.6/80 Lens Test

Noritsu E90C Minilab Lens Test

Rodenstock Scitex LFOV Scanner Lens Test

Rodenstock Scitex 5.6/80 Scanner Lens Test

Konica Minolta DiMAGE Dual Scan IV AF-3200 Scanner Lens Test

Konica Minolta DiMAGE Dual Scan III AF-2840 Scanner Lens Test

Minolta DiMAGE Scan Elite II AF-2820 Scanner Lens Test

New-old-stock Tominon 4/17 vs JML 3.5/21 Lens Shootout

Hall of Shame Top Twenty List Page

This list is in order of project progress, the items at the top have been started and are close to being completed and just working on the page for the site. The items near the bottom are in but are waiting for adapters or the time to finish testing.

Feel free to ask for more info or if you have any information to share with any of the topics, feel free to send me an email.

Thanks for the interest.