[LargeFormat] new portrait lens to my managerie

[Les Newcomer]

that last link should be
http://home.twmi.rr.com/lnphoto/blaperture.jpg

On Friday, October 25, 2002, at 01:11 PM, Les Newcomer wrote:

> http://home.twmi.rr.com/lnphoto/managerie.jpg
>
> The above is a link to an unabashedly unartful photograph of my now large 
> collection of portrait lenses.
> From left to right
> Graphic Miniature Speed Graphic with a 101 Ektar
> B&L 3A Portrait f4 16" f4,
> B&L Portrait Unar  14 7/8" f4.5
>
> In the second photo I added for scale:
> Wollensak Velo II 12"
> Cooke  Portrait Series II 10.5" f5.6
> Voigtlander Dag lens circa 1842
> the three lenses on top of the Unar is my traveling Protar C set.
>
> Now the 3A currently uses a radical system of small apetures of random 
> size and shape and a very special interior "soft coating" to the lens to 
> give portaits a softness not found in any other lens. Blooming maybe, but 
> not bloom. see below.
> http://home.twmi.rr.com/lnphoto/aperture.jpg
>
>
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