FUJINON Unicorn 600A lens discuss

[pierre506]

He posted in "show off your LF camera" thread just the other day and you can VAGUELY see it from the side, ya know along with a 550 XXL Art lens... I was like WHOA and almost fell out of my chair haha.

Dear Stone,
Keep your bottom on your chair~

[StoneNYC]

Dear Stone,
Keep your bottom on your chair~

I kept myself on the chair but I might have had a mini aneurism....

Thanks for sharing! Holy hell. Lol, someday.... Dreams!!

[angusparker]

I kept myself on the chair but I might have had a mini aneurism....

Thanks for sharing! Holy hell. Lol, someday.... Dreams!!

What a treasure trove .... wish I was local to get a look see.

[pierre506]

Super-Unicorn 1200A F24:

[Corran]

Pierre, bottom right, is that a 30cm APO Lanthar?

[Drew Wiley]

With the massive image circle of that thing, one inevitably wonders if the alleged softness is simply due to lack of adequate lens shading. But the 600 and 1200 A's
were apparently before that series was multicoated. And I wonder where one can rent an Indian elephant these days to carry a lens like that, along the camera!

[pierre506]

Pierre, bottom right, is that a 30cm APO Lanthar?

That's it~

[Jeff Keller]

I don't have any experience with the 600A but the shorter ones: 360, 240, 180 are much sharper than the pictures you've shown.
-jeff

[Drew Wiley]

Anything that long is also going to have serious depth of field issues, as well as film flatness issues on big film. Even with 8x10 film I use adhesive holders for
any serious degree of enlargement. ULF photography is generally contact printed anyway. I'm always suspicious of optical comparisons via posted web images
anyway. Hardly objective.

[angusparker]

One on the Bay right now