[pure-silver] Re: spoiled by my new lens
- From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 13:19:00 -0700
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From: "Shannon Stoney" <sstoney@xxxxxxx>
To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 12:46 PM
Subject: [pure-silver] spoiled by my new lens
Oops, I have had a hasselblad for a year now, and I have
just been printing negatives I made last summer with it.
I photographed the same subject (an old farmhouse) with my
150mm lens on my view camera, and the view camera
negatives are decidedly inferior to the medium format
Hasselblad negatives. I think it might be because the
view camera 150mm lens is not very good. I got it when I
was a student, about eight years ago, and it was very
inexpensive. It is a Sinaron S, and it seemed fine until,
oh, I guess today.
I know that price is not always proportional to quality,
but...I am thinking of upgrading. What would be a view
camera lens that is like the lens on the Hassie? I love
that lens. It's the Zeiss C T*. Does Karl Zeiss make
lenses for view cameras?
(PS I also like my plastic Holga lens. I'm not a lens snob
really!)
--shannon
Sinaron is a house brand of Sinar for lenses it buys
from various manufacturers. The Sinaron-S is supposed to be
a Rodenstock Sironar, which is a very high quality lens.
What faults does this lens seem to have? Its possible its
just a bad lens but it may also be damaged or an element may
be out of place or something else that can be fixed.
The main makers of large format lenses currently are
Schneider and Rodenstock. Zeiss has made lenses in the past
but I don't think they make any now. Fuji and Nikon have
also made some excellent LF lenses in the recent past.
Also, what format is your view camera?
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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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