[LargeFormat] Protar Sets

[Les Newcomer]

for Series V B&L Protars

4.5x6.5=3 3/8"
5x7= 4 3/8"
6.5x8.5=5 9/16"
8x10=7 3/16"

Zeiss, Krauss and other licensees varied the focal lenght slightly.

i have a couple 6x8 protars that cover 10x12 stopped down if you wnat to
play. neither are in shutter.

les


> From: Clive Warren <cocam@blueyonder.co.uk>
> Reply-To: largeformat@f32.net
> Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 02:21:26 +0100
> To: largeformat@f32.net
> Subject: [LargeFormat] Protar Sets
> 
> At 8:41 pm -0400 28/5/02, Les Newcomer wrote:
>> Clive and I follow the same path,
> snip
>> 
>> And Clive, you'd better be looking for a looonnng Protar set for that Korona
>> or it'll be a waste of bellows!   Actually a long landscape lens would work
>> fine since the camera shake would lessen any benefit of the sharpness of the
>> protar  ;-)
> 
> 
> Les,
> 
> I'm used to waiting for the right moment to take the shot - stood on
> top of a mountain for 2 hours waiting for a shaft of sunlight on Zion
> one May.... even the Korona would have settled down by then. That was
> the occasion that my tent was nearly washed away with torrential rain
> - headed out of Zion with pedal to the metal and kept ahead of the
> storm. There was me thinking that you always  need to carry water
> with you in those parts........
> 
> Protars - how the hell do you focus at f18 - and "carefully" is not an answer.
> 
> Am holding out for a main Protar lens in shutter but may give in and
> go for a set with the country shutter approach that you have
> suggested on a number of occasions. It would be good to use that 8x10
> Korona Compact sometime this century.
> 
> There seem to have been plenty of Protars made for different formats
> and it's not always easy to determine the focal length when you are
> several thousand miles away from the chap selling the lens.  My main
> concern is that the Protars might not be up to producing shots that
> can be enlarged.
> 
> BTW I did use the country shutter with the Bausch and Lomb 15 1/2"
> portrait lens and open flash in the studio just before the workshop.
> Worked a treat but Robert seemed to be shaking his head whilst
> leaning on his Sinar P2 ;-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Clive
> 
> 
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