[LargeFormat] Bill Brandt

[Les Newcomer]

Zeiss and in the US,  B&L Zeiss,  made a plethora of Series V protars.  
they covered the formats from 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 up to 24x30.   the 8x10 was 7 
3/16"   although the whole plate version (6*x8*) woukd cover 8x10 stopped 
down.  it's 5 9/16".

I thought he used a 5x7 for those pictures but my references are shaky.

Les


These are from a B&L catalog.  Zeiss lenses were done first in milimeters 
and later in centimeters.
On Wednesday, December 4, 2002, at 04:25 PM, tripspud wrote:

> Hi Eddy!
>
>      Gee, then I'm wrong about the pinhole!
>
> Rich Lahrson
> Berkeley, California
> tripspud@transbay.net
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> 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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