[LRFlex] The World... I mean ultrawide, is not enough!
- From: Jim Hemenway <Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 20:39:37 -0500
Hi Art:
Thanks for the idea, but ultrawide is not enough. I want to use my 30mm
Arsat fisheye. It should give me about an 85mm image circle, which will
fit nicely on the 4x5 format.
I wouldn't even consider the blasphemy :-) of taking one of my C220F
lenses apart... except to clean the inside elements.
And now back to 35mm. It's going to snow again tomorrow and I'm
planning on taking the R8 out for a spin with the R-80-200 zoom. I used
the Rollei 6008i with the 180mm in yesterday's storm.
Regards,
Jim
NATSTEK@xxxxxxx wrote:
Jim,
I think that I can save you a lot of trouble if what you want is an
ultrawide lens on a 4X5.
A police officer friend of mine takes Mamiya 6X6 twin lens lenses and
separates the viewing lens from the lower taking lens, (just unscrew the
jam ring from the rear of the lens and remove it from its lens board),
and mounts the lens on a blank 4X5 lens board. This way you have the
leaf shutter intact and can use any 4X5, Crown or Speed Graphic body
with all of the front standard's tilt, shift, and rotations. There was
even a 55mm f/4.5, or 5.6 lens available, which on a 4X5 is pretty much
a 15mm or so lens!! Attach a 6X9 rollfilm back and you have something.
I have a 2 1/4X3 1/4 Century graphic wiyh a graphlock ground glass back,
as well as a 6X9 rollfilm back. The standard 101mm lens fully covers the
6X9 format with no vignetting!!
The nice thing about the Mamiya twin lens, lenses, is that they can
often be found cheaply, because oftentimes the viewing lens is FUBAR,
but thye taking lens is OK, and that is the lens that you are really after.
I told you guy's that I'm an incurable gadget freak.
Art Tafil
natstek@xxxxxxx <mailto:natstek@xxxxxxx>
------
Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at:
www.horizon.bc.ca/~dnr/lrflex.htm
Archives are at:
www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/
Other related posts:
