Looking for wide(ish) 8x10 lens....advice?

[charlie jay]

Thanks everyone.

Can anyone confirm 100% that the 250mm Fujinon 6.7 is Single Coated?

I am going to get both the Fujinon and a Rodenstock Sironar N 240mm and see which I like best

Thanks again
Charlie

[David Karp]

I have not seen anything anywhere that says a 250mm f/6.7 Fujinon W is multicoated. Everything I have seen says it is single coated. Mine is single coated. The 240mm Sironar-N will be very nice. I have the 210mm Caltar II-N version with the same optical design. The 250mm Fujinon is very nice too. I have no problem with it being single coated. I use it as my normal-ish lens for the Whole Plate format. I would rather have that Fujinon in a Copal No. 1 than the Sironar-N in a Copal No. 3 any day. But I carry my Whole Plate camera in a backpack and the extra weight might not matter to you as much as it does to me.

[Sal Santamaura]

...Can anyone confirm 100% that the 250mm Fujinon 6.7 is Single Coated?...

Yes. An EBC multicoated version of that lens was never sold.

...I am going to get both the Fujinon and a Rodenstock Sironar N 240mm and see which I like best...

I own both. If you like movements, you'll like the 48mm larger image circle of the Fujinon best. If you like to carry them any distance, you'll like the eight ounce lighter weight and 10mm smaller filter of the Fujinon best. If, on the other hand, like Oren, you are concerned with bokeh, you'll probably ignore those first two factors and like the Rodenstock best.