[LargeFormat] Goerz Artars

[Les Newcomer]

It's been said that the red dot was tweaked for 1:10 or greater and the non
red dot was sweet at 1:1

Anybody have any comments, rebuttles?

Les

BTW Having only one 8x10, I have a 19 red dot in shutter and a 24in non red
in barrel.

> From: "Ken Hough" <k4sb@niia.net>
> Reply-To: largeformat@f32.net
> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 01:27:14 -0500
> To: largeformat@f32.net
> Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] Goerz Artars
> 
> I can't resist answering this.
> I had them from 9in to 28 inch. (9, 12, 14, 16, 19, 24, 26, 28). All in
> shutters. 
> The 28 I think was a custom made one. I found some Kodak F10
> Anastigmats at an auction, eight of them, same FLs as the Artars in fact.
> Bought everyone for less than 300.00 total. I was going to resell them but I
> coated a couple of the shorter ones and used them. I found they were as
> good as the Artars. Sold the Artars and bought a 12x20 Deardorff with a
> 36in Artar. And still had money to buy film! In short the Artar is a fine dual
> purpose lens and do not let anyone tell you it is not!
> Ken