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wide angle lens
Posted by:
zmanphoto
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Date: June 25, 2006 02:37AM
A camera store owner located about 20 minutes from OKC came across a whole garage full of wooden cameras. Looks like everything from 4x5 to 11x14. It was from an estate. Doesn't look like anything from the wet-plate era, but still some pretty cool items. He put one lens up that I was able to see up close and personal. Does anyone know about these lenses?- [cgi.ebay.com]
Can't believe he is asking that much for it.
He operated the fan for me on the lens. Pretty cool.
Mark Z
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/25/2006 02:47AM by zmanphoto.
Can't believe he is asking that much for it.
He operated the fan for me on the lens. Pretty cool.
Mark Z
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/25/2006 02:47AM by zmanphoto.
Re: wide angle lens
Posted by:
RobertSzabo
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Date: June 25, 2006 12:24PM
Im not sure if anyone has tried one with wet plate. They would make for a long exposure. I dont know much about them other than they are rare. With the price being asked I guess the seller is not aout to be giving anyone any "deals" on the equipment.
Re: wide angle lens
Posted by:
zmanphoto
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Date: June 25, 2006 02:49PM
He took me upstairs to give me a peak of what he has (lots of wooden cameras), but they will be on ebay I'm sure. Too bad. Just hard to find bargains anymore.
Re: wide angle lens
Posted by:
Jason Greenberg Motamedi
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Date: June 25, 2006 08:15PM
The Hypergon has 140 degrees of coverage; nothing like them made before or since. The 120mm will cover 12x20.
Re: wide angle lens
Posted by:
euphus
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Date: June 26, 2006 09:11AM
Some info I had saved on this lens. If you stand in front of the camera with the cable release, you can photograph from your toes to your nose.
Exposures are made by making part of the exposure with the wheel in front of the lens, and with a light puff of air from a rubber bulb at the end of a tube conected to the lens, like a barbers bulb, the wheel turns, just enough to move the fins a few degrees. Then the rest of the exposure is made with the wheel swung away from the ray path. Variations work too. All the exposure can be made with the wheel in the ray path, with the puff of air to move the fins, or the exposure can be made without the use of the wheel and that would make an image with greater exposure in the center than the edge by about three stops. That can be OK if using black and white film, and then you don't have to burn the edges down!
The important advantage with this lens is that the image is very wide angle, and big enough to hold the details, so for contact printing, silver, platinum or alternative, there is nothing like this.
Here is a link for anyone interested: [www.cameraquest.com]
Exposures are made by making part of the exposure with the wheel in front of the lens, and with a light puff of air from a rubber bulb at the end of a tube conected to the lens, like a barbers bulb, the wheel turns, just enough to move the fins a few degrees. Then the rest of the exposure is made with the wheel swung away from the ray path. Variations work too. All the exposure can be made with the wheel in the ray path, with the puff of air to move the fins, or the exposure can be made without the use of the wheel and that would make an image with greater exposure in the center than the edge by about three stops. That can be OK if using black and white film, and then you don't have to burn the edges down!
The important advantage with this lens is that the image is very wide angle, and big enough to hold the details, so for contact printing, silver, platinum or alternative, there is nothing like this.
Here is a link for anyone interested: [www.cameraquest.com]
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