Lenses and their "personality"..

[Ari]

Yeah, but that Cooke being a triple convertible, it's like owning 4 lenses when you include the 150.

Drool!

Absolutely, Alan, even though I find myself using the 646mm FL very rarely, maybe twice since I bought the lens.
Drool noted and appreciated!

[Emil Schildt]

Emil, that Dallmeyer Landscape lens yields strange artifacts Iteresting examples thank you.

Ian

yes - I use it uncorcked, and I love that lens...

[Emil Schildt]

made a few more... (and a couple with other motive than first..)

[Emil Schildt]

and Again...

[Jim Fitzgerald]

Emil, I must say I do like the way that Dallmeyer looks

[Emil Schildt]

Emil, I must say I do like the way that Dallmeyer looks

I agree - it is beautiful! I want to have a bigger one - they are out there but unfortunately also expensive...

[Ari]

The Cooke, in this post and your first post as well, gets my vote, but I'm biased.
I also like the look of that Hermann very much.

[massimodec]

Very good gallery Emil ! Thank you !

I'm especially fond of the Kodak Portrait lenses but the prices have soared in the last decade or so... beyond my meager affordability. Imagon lenses were made in many more focal lengths and have a similar rendering (IMO)... IF you avoid use of the sink strainer discs which (IMO) usually destroy the final look. I love the way Imagons render with the strainer discs closed or using nicely rounded shutter apertures instead of the discs.

Right! Imagon is similar to Kodak Portrait (I have both), but Imagon disks have a very special function, IMO.
The issue is the kind of light: disks can be very helpful with all their little holes when there is no direct light, nor metal (or jewels) reflections...in that case of course all those little daisies could be ridicolous. But with diffused light, on bright zones, with disks and variable holes, you can manage the glow, that's where the difference comes out.
I like very much the Kodak by the way: more "plastic", it better renders volumes !

[F64]

More, please!

[Steven Tribe]

I agree - it is beautiful! I want to have a bigger one - they are out there but unfortunately also expensive...

When I could still get access to the Dallmeyer archive (do others have similar problems now?), I checked the manufacturing levels of the larger Patent Landscape. Basically because I got hold of a size 5a (same dimensions as 5, but with the 18" efl from size 6) to help me get over the "loss" of a 60cm Plasticca!
These larger ones where not made in very large quantities by Dallmeyer. However, if you take all the other makers of long EFL Landscape lenses into consideration, then availability is considerably improved. I do not, for a second, believe that the real magic that Emil's Dallmeyer Patent Landscape 4 image has, owes more than a couple of % to it being that particular lens. The lens could just as well have been another "uncorked" meniscus lens from Wray, "Optimus", Spencer or Lancaster. The magic comes from Emil's choice of subject and background, lighting and post exposure treatment.

But this is a fun thread and shows what CAN be done with a particular lens.