So, I was lucky enough to find a beautiful Tele-Tubus IV with a 225mm front single positive and -100mm rear lens (both by Zeiss). In literature that I found on Google books it appears that this particular combination was made for fast exposures when shooting 'large heads' and indeed it seems that the lens is super fast (somewhere about f3) BUT when I put it on my 8x10 I can not for the life of me get it to focus close on a person without racking out my bellows so far that the entire 'fastness' of it is pretty much void.
I understand that these lenses were supplied with a special chart for each positive/negative element combination. I have found a recent eBay sale for a PERFECT piece of literature about this, but alas it is gone. The name of that publication is "CARL ZEISS Jena 1896 Tele-Photographic Objectives USE OF TELEPHOTO LENS LENSES". Does anyone have anything like that? Any experience with Tele-Tubus lenses? Any help?
Very much appreciated.
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