Artistic gentle focus lens Rodenstock Imagon 300 mm H=5.6 with a little history of the Murmillo Thraex as Gaulish replacement and Hoplomachus Gladiator
I do not wish to dwell on the traits and fates of Gladiators. The
history of Murmillo and their opponent does show the Roman attitude
of barbarian til the Gauls in this case were subdued and turned into
a Client Kingdom so their former bestial character was withdrawn from
the Arena and the Murmillones needed a new opponent in their live
action and potential death games. The helmet here has a history and a
continuing present.
Using a Sinar camera with artistic lens and a Sony digital mirrorless camera gives a warm feel to to the pictures. The Rodenstock Imagon 300 mm H=5.6 gives several versions of itself through itself without additions and then through aperture and diffusion discs sometimes referred to as sieve apertures and they are also called sink strainers. Many photographers are finding that old lenses and camera enclosures can work marvellous well with new digital cameras. Old cameras, lenses and equipment are current enjoy a second, third, fourth and more life as they are looked to again to produce the detail they were imagined for and the production of wonders that they were never designed for.
Murmillo
The murmillo (plural murmillones) or myrmillo wore a helmet with a stylised fish on the crest (the mormylos or sea fish), as well as an arm guard (manica), a loincloth and belt, a gaiter on his right leg, thick wrappings covering the tops of his feet, and a very short greave with an indentation for the padding at the top of the feet. They are heavily armoured gladiators: the murmillo carried a gladius (64–81 cm long) and a tall, oblong shield in the legionary style. Murmillones typically fought a thraex, but occasionally the similar hoplomachus.
Thraex
The Thraex (plural Thraeces, "Thracians") wore the same protective armour as the hoplomachi with a broad rimmed helmet that enclosed the entire head, distinguished by a stylized griffin on the protome or front of the crest (the griffin was the companion of the avenging goddess Nemesis), a small round or square-shaped shield (parmula), and two thigh-length greaves. His weapon was the Thracian curved sword (sica or falx, c. 34 cm or 13 in long). They were introduced as replacements for the Gaulish gladiator type after Gaul made peace with Rome. They commonly fought myrmillones or hoplomachi.
Hoplomachus
The hoplomachus (Romanised Greek for "armed fighter", Latin plural hoplomachii) wore quilted, trouser-like leg wrappings, loincloth, a belt, a pair of long shin-guards or greaves, an arm guard (manica) on the sword-arm, and a brimmed helmet that could be adorned with a plume of feathers on top and a single feather on each side. He was equipped with a gladius and a very small, round shield. He also carried a spear, which he would have to cast at his opponent before closing for hand-to-hand combat. The hoplomachi were paired against the myrmillones or Thraeces. They may have developed out of the earlier '"Samnite" type after it became impolitic to use the names of now-allied peoples.
Lens
details Rodenstock Imagon 300 mm H=5.6 (for 13×18 cm)
In a
joint effort with the pioneering photographer Heinrich Kühn, who, as
a pictorialist, was artistically seeking for "romantic softness
without sugariness, blurring without a woolly effect"[1] in
images and had been experimenting with binocular lenses and soft
filters and rasters in the 1920s already,[1] the lens was technically
designed by Franz Staeble [de],[1][2] founder of the optical company
Staeble-Werk [de] in Munich, Germany.[1] The resulting lens was
marketed as Anachromat Kühn. Later in 1928,[1] the lens became the
Tiefenbildner-Imagon, which was introduced by Rodenstock in 1930/1931
and produced up into the 1990s. The unusual term Tiefenbildner is a
German composition, which can be best translated as "depth-of-field
creator, modulator or painter" in an artistic sense; this
designation was later dropped.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodenstock_Imagon
Some Sinar Camera Details
“The name SINAR is an acronym that encompasses the prime applications in the fields of still, industrial, nature, architectural and reproduction photography.”
At times the name SINAR is rendered into different titles the above quote and link is from an English version of a 2011 press release, “Sinar Photography AG Acquires the Brand Rights of Sinar AG,” Zürich: Sinar Photography AG. April 2011. The S in Sinar has also been stated as standing for studio, Sache, or science.
Whilst Sinar still make amazing cameras this is an older version and it is not the latest and greatest. In fine age it is still a picture taking marvel, but not easy, not handy and not great to transport. Then you luxuriate into the results and suddenly the struggles of lifting and moving of the all manual operation and friendly challenges of light metering seem to be gone for a few treasured moments of appreciation and even longer still as you think where next for a Sinar experience.
© PHH Sykes 2024
Rodenstock Imagon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodenstock_Imagon
Sinar
https://sinar.swiss/products/cameras/
List of Roman gladiator types
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_gladiator_types
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