[LargeFormat] 72-80-90-110-150

[menso guk]

I have a Sch 480mm 3.5 lens................(Dicromate I think)
bloddy huge............
think of it on a 4X5 (he he)
very happy on my 8X10 

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---- george day <geod@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Yes, another dilemma.
> 
> First of all, I quickly realized that I couldn't part with all my LF
> gear
> for the next year.
> 
> Second, here's the thing:
> 
> For 4x5 wide-to-normal, my current spectrum is:
> 
> Sch. 72xl, Ro. 90/4.5 Gran-N, Ro. 150 Apo-Sir-S.  Okay, and Ro. 210
> Ap.
> Sir-S, if you must insist.
> 
> Here's the thing: bloody sharp as the 150 is, I find the focal length
> a
> little, well, boring. Don't use it very much.  But getting something
> wider
> puts me awfully close to the 90, and the dominoes fall from there.
> 
> So I've been thinking about the Sch. 80xl and 110xl to replace the
> first
> three lenses in the above list.  First of all, has anyone used both
> the Sch.
> and those lenses above, and what do you think?  I fell into the Rodenstock
> habit more or less by accident, but I'm very pleased -- to my eyes,
> their
> lenses are sharper, useful corner to useful corner, than the Sch.
> equivalents.  Then again, those XLs have awfully large image circles...
> 
> Any thoughts or comments?  Would anyone find the 80 not quite wide
> enough?
> Please, any and all thoughts or advice welcome.
> 
> 
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