[LargeFormat] Wollensak 15" Telephoto (was re: Shooting Landscapes with 305mm)

Clive Warren largeformat@f32.net
Sun Apr 20 22:37:21 2003


At 9:59 pm -0400 20/4/03, Stuart Phillips wrote:
>Is the Wollensack a telephoto or do you have long bellows?
>

Hello Stuart,

The Wollensak is indeed a telephoto in an Alphax shutter and a rather 
fine lens. There is an example photo taken with the lens attached to 
a Speed Graphic of Tintern in South Wales, UK. The photos were taken 
from a precarious position about two miles away in the surrounding 
mountains.  There are sectional blow-ups of the resulting trannie 
showing the limitations to be grain of the film rather than 
resolution of the lens!

The photos are on the f32.net Discussion Forum at the following URL: 
http://www.f32.net/cgi-local/discus/show.cgi?tpc=6&post=530#POST530

Cheers, Clive