[LargeFormat] Protar Sets

[Les Newcomer]

> From: Clive Warren
> 
> 
> 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.... 

I wasn't thinking of your patience, I was considering the wind, or in the
case of that spindly Korona, the gravitational pull of the moon.
> 
> Protars - how the hell do you focus at f18 - and "carefully" is not an answer.

A bright day helps a lot, will fully admit to 'shooting loose' and not
looking at the corners too much.  A darn good dark cloth or dark hood,
double t-shirt helps a lot.  A bright loupe, ala 50m 1.2 lens from a
Honeywell Pentax helps too. I've been told that practicing with a Hypergon
(f33) does wonders for working with a Series V protar but have yet to step
up to that kind of lens.
> 
> 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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