[LargeFormat] Bill Brandt

[tripspud]

Hi Eddy!

     Gee, then I'm wrong about the pinhole!

Rich Lahrson
Berkeley, California
tripspud@transbay.net

Eddy Willems wrote:

> You can see the camera Bill Brandt in "on the other side of the
> camera" Arnold Crane on page 108 and 109 there are two pictures of
> Bill Brandt with the camera he used to make the pictures for the book
> "Perspective of Nudes" 1968.
> Bill Cranes says that it is a beautiful 8x10 inch wooden camera with
> a wide-angle Carl-Zeiss Protar lens 1:18 ,
> so this pictures are taken with a lens and are no pinhole pictures.
> is there somebody on the list who knows this lens
> in "a history of the photographic lens" rudolf kingslake page 83 I
> find that this is a anastigmat and that Zeiss changed the name of
> their lenses to Protar in 1900 and that the 1:18 series V Protar
> survived as the standard wide angle lens for commercial photography
> up to the 1930s. who knows the focal length and did this lens cover 8
> x10?
>
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