[LargeFormat] Wista technical and Schneider lenses II, portrait

[Karl Wolz]

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.  I thought the 360 was about as short as I
wanted to go, and a 500 would be a bit better.

Karl Wolz

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Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 12:13 PM
Subject: [LargeFormat] Wista technical and Schneider lenses II, portrait


> As I mentioned in an earlier message, I have a Wista VX, which I use most
of
> the time with a 90mm Schneider Super Angulon XL. I'm *really* happy with
> this combination.
>
> However I want to do portraiture with it, including 'tight' head shots.
Yes
> I *know* there's an element of "don't start from here", but I'd really
> appreciate some advice.
>
> The problem is that the maximum bellows draw of the Wista technical
cameras
> is 300mm and I'm pretty sure that the focal length I want to use is
> somewhere around 270mm, and I don't think that's going to work, is it?
>
> Now you can get a lens panel for the Wista with a sort of extension-tube
> affair, but it's a bit Heath-Robinson. You can also get extension
rails/beds
> for them, but as far as I can tell to fit these you need to change the
> bellows, and all of a sudden we're talking a) a fair bit of cash for a
> clunky solution and b) a lot of hassle changing over.
>
> Which brings me to telephotos. I know about the 270mm Nikkor and that it
> *just* covers 5x4 (or seems to from the figures), I know about the 300mm
> Fujinon T (and that Robert White can supply these here in the UK), but is
> there anything else I should be looking at?
>
> I know there used to be a 270mm f5.5 Schneider Tele-Arton which seems -
from
> the figures on Schneider's web site - to be almost perfect for my needs,
and
> they do come up on the used market from time to time, but are they any
good?
> There were other Schneider tele lenses of about the same focal length, are
> any of them suitable?
>
> I expect to hear some answers along the lines of "buy a used monorail with
> enough draw, and a used 270mm non-Tele", and I do realise this is a sound
> option, it's just that if it was possible to do it all on the Wista, I'd
> really like to do it all that way.
>
> --
> David Morton
> dmorton@journalist.co.uk
>
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