[LargeFormat] Re: long lenses and rollfilm formats

[Clive Warren]

At 06:56 18/04/01 -0700, Paul and Paula Butzi wrote:
>Which rodenstock 300mm?
>
>You do know that I have permission from HP Marketing
>to reproduce the Rodenstock brochures.  The literature
>on all the Rodenstock lenses except the Apo-Ronar and
>Apo-Geronar have been scanned and are on my web site
>at
>http://www.butzi.net/rodenstock/rodenstock.htm
>
>The Schneider lens literature is on their web site
>at www.schneideroptics.com
>
>Fuji literature can be found of Kerry Thalmann's large
>format homepage at http://largeformat.terrashare.com
>Kerry's page is an excellent resource.  If you haven't
>ready Kerry's thoughts on large format lens selection for
>field use, you really ought to go and read it.  His article
>on 'future classics' is a current classic in it's own right.
>
>-Paul

Paul,

Thanks for all the URLs - am familiar with all the sites except your own, 
which I will of course visit :-)

Did read some of the traffic on the newsgroups about lens specs and saw 
that you had kindly offered to put the effort into making the Rodenstock 
data easily available on your web site.  Guess we all owe you a vote of 
thanks for that!

The lens I am interested in is the 300mm f9 apo Ronar in shutter.  Just my 
luck that it is one of the two you have not yet put up on your 
site.....  It  is really a compromise when choosing a long lens for 4x5 - 
the apo-Ronar does not have the coverage of the competition so will not be 
a lot of use for 8x10 and perhaps not quite enough movements for 5x7.  At 
f9 it is a little dim for focussing but I have a good focussing cloth 
;-)  The lens is relatively cheap (unless bought new) and I am still 
looking for one - contact me off list if anyone knows of one for sale.....

Kerry's web site has a number of interesting and useful articles on lens 
selection - my favourite is his section on Kodak Ektar lenses:

http://www.hevanet.com/cperez/cameras/ektar_list.html


All the best,
                 Clive   http://www.f32.net
                         Large Format Travel and Stock Photography