[LargeFormat] Angulon Answers

[Jim Brick]

Uncle Dick,

Be careful of f/8 wide angle lenses. They are dim. I own a 6.8 flat pancake 
Angulon. Only minimal movements possible. I then rented an f/8 90 Super 
Angulon. It's amazing how much visual light is lost around the edges of the 
ground glass with a 1/2 stop less light. This is why when I purchased real 
WA lenses, I went for the f/4.5 Grandagons. That's two stops brighter than 
f/8! What a freaking difference! WOW!

Let there be light, by which, to see the image on the GG...

:-)

Nefu Jimmy


At 09:15 PM 12/9/2003 +0800, rstein wrote:
>Dear Nieces and Nephews,
>
>      Thank you for the advice regarding the Angulon question. I went out and
>rented one of the little 6.8 flat pancake 90 mm.'s for a weekend dancer
>shoot and it all worked out well. I was able to stack 11 of the dancers side
>by side with a little echeloning in a very small space of studio and the
>results on a 6 x 12 section of sheet film will make very good posters.
>
>      The project whetted my appetite for my own 90mm. I have contracted with
>a chap in Montreal to purchase an f.8 90 Super Angulon and will see if I can
>start to do bigger interiors. I have a bag bellows on the Linhof E that
>seems to work.
>
>     Uncle Dick