Lens for Anscow View to do Tintype

[brandon13]

I shoot 8x10 plates with a 400mm f4 petzval(Not cheap) and a 300mm 4.5 Xenar(Cheap) all the time with strobes. I don't use a shutter. I just remove the lens cap. fire and replace the cap. I am usually around 2000-2400ws through a soft box with an f4-4.5 lens wide open. collodion formulas and the age of the collodion can vary quite a bit as far as effective collodion speed goes. The Cadmium based ones work for me. I also make collodion every couple months so it's always fresh. good luck. Your goerz will work fine but is a tad slow for a 4800ws pack In my experience. but just barely so. great outdoor lens though.

[DrTang]

Yes, but you will need to rig a shutter to these older lenses if you are going to use flash.

here's what I've been doing

hook the strobes up to the flashmeter

put black bowler hat over lens

take bowler off lens-pop flash with meter - replace bowler hat

[Joe Smigiel]

Yes, but you will need to rig a shutter to these older lenses if you are going to use flash.

here's what I've been doing

hook the strobes up to the flashmeter

put black bowler hat over lens

take bowler off lens-pop flash with meter - replace bowler hat

When are you available?

[Joe Smigiel]

Versus a head-and-shoulders or closer, deer-in-headlights, frontal Petzval shot done wide-open with little depth-of-field:

No, no, no. Where are the antlers Mark?

[YHP]

Thanks a lot Brandon!

[Two23]

No, no, no. Where are the antlers Mark?

A doe doesn't have antlers.


Kent in SD

[Mark Sawyer]

A doe doesn't have antlers.

Now, now... the moderators just closed that thread.

I suspect if one understands the subtleties of the differences between old and new, one probably has uses for both. F/4.5 is around the point of diminishing returns for speed, so I'd aim for that. Start with the cheaper and more common, a Tessar, and watch for the right Petzval to come up. If you can appreciate lenses enough to prefer one over the other, you probably want one of each. Both can be lovely. (Mind you I probably have a couple dozen of each. That's the real danger here... )

[brandon13]

Thanks a lot Brandon!

no prob. YHP Yes I prefer the Xenars to Tessars as far as a nice inexpensive lenses.(just my personal preference)Both of my Xenars are from the 1920's and I tend to like older lenses for wet plate. I shoot petzvals 80% of the time. from 5x7 up to 11x14 plates. My second favorite 8x10 wet plate lens is a 360mm f4.5 non universal Heliar. I picked up that one for $500.00 three years back. so maybe that could be your somewhere in between the nice Dallmeyer price and the cheaper Tessar/Xenar . Heliars are pretty sweet.

[Mark Sawyer]

no prob. YHP Yes I prefer the Xenars to Tessars...

Large format Xenars are Tessars.

[brandon13]

Large format Xenars are Tessars.

Tessar Clones Yes I know. I have both. Just prefer the Xenars to the Tessars as well as the Industars That is why I said (just my personal preference) Weren't you just talking about understanding subtle differences?