[LargeFormat] Bausch and Lomb Portrait Lens

[Clive Warren]

At 10:45 am -0700 13/4/02, Les Newcomer wrote:
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>
>"the efficiency of a country shutter." <giggle>   sounds like an MIT masters
>thesis if I every heard one.
>
>I got the term from another photographer. don't know where she got the term
>from, but I've heard it from seperate sources.  There has to different names
>for this thing, and it's the one item that was so readily usable that I've
>never seen marketed on a commercial basis.
>
>I don't think there's a major problem with uneven exposure.  Use POP and
>print through it!!  *->
>
>For the one I build for the Unar I made 5.5" wide as the lenscape was 4.25"
>I also made the far edge a bit deeper with a bead on the inner lip. This way
>i can hang the shutter on the lens and it won't fall off while I pull the
>darkslide.  All way over built, but once in awhile I like to see what the
>wood working tools can do besides make sawdust.

Les,

Yep, taking the tech approach to the extreme here.

You may be pleased to hear that I have made and used a country 
shutter with the B&L Portrait lens and after taking a shot of the 
camera and lens in the studio (see 
http://www.f32.net/cgi-local/discus/show.cgi?93/248 ). Robert 
Lawrence was in the studio (as it was his place) so I tied him to a 
stool and took a quick shot, he was a little amused with the 
technology and managed to escape fairly quickly so it was just as 
well it was an open flash shot :-)

The construction process was fairly easy - I took the outer lid from 
a 4x5 film box and found it fitted well over the lens. Hung the box 
on the lens, removed darkslide and flipped the lid at the same time 
as hitting the radio button for the strobes.

Had hoped to get into the darkroom this evening and dev the 5x7 film 
but still immersed in paperwork here.

Have two portraits booked over the next week or so will be using the B&L.

Cheers,
        Clive