[LargeFormat] Wista technical and Schneider lenses II, portrait

Karl Wolz largeformat@f32.net
Fri Aug 17 17:30:06 2001


At 12" of extension, it'll focus down to a bit less than 8'.  At infinity
focus, it uses about 8 1/2' of extension.
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Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 1:37 PM
Subject: [LargeFormat] Wista technical and Schneider lenses II, portrait


> Karl Wolz wrote:
>
> "I've used my field Wista for portraiture with my 360 Tele-Xenar (for
sale,
> BTW) with credible results.  I think you might find the 270 to be a bit
> short for tighter portraits."
>
> You may well be right, I'd like to have the option of longer (I use a
135mm
> f2 a lot on 35mm), but I assumed I would be hit by the 300mm maximum
belows
> draw. What's the belows extenstion on the 360mm Tele Xenar when it's
> focussed at infinity, and on a tight head shot?
>
> Oh, and how much do you want for it?
>
> --
> David Morton
> dmorton@journalist.co.uk
>
> "The more opinions you have, the less you see." -- Wim Wenders.
>
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