I have a 100mm F5.6 Symmar in a barrel and it's 6x9cm at best. But a very sweet little lens!
I have a 100mm F5.6 Symmar in a barrel and it's 6x9cm at best. But a very sweet little lens!
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If you need small and you're happy with vintage, also look into those lenses as alternatives: Cooke VIIb (I had a 108mm f6.5), Goerz 108mm WA Dagor, Wolly WA Raptar (mine is a 103.7mm f6.8)....good enough for 5x7", but possibly not quite as resolving as modern glass and you get slightly more muted colors and contrast. Really nice lenses though, although I never became real friends with the Goerz, as I was in my "color" phase at the time.
http://www.jeffbridges.com/perception.html "Whether you think you can, or think you can't, you are right."
The "6x9" Topcor/Horseman SUPER 120mm/5.6 has full 4x5 coverage without movement. I used that lens on my Horseman FA for a while until I got a 'proper' 4x5 lens and it worked fine. It is pretty compact, maybe it folds in the camera, but I always carry mine in the bag unfolded. Of the "6x9" lenses, that one has the widest coverage; it has more coverage than the much larger 105mm SUPER f4.5. The 105mm Super f4.5 is as big as a 'proper' 4x5 lens, so not much advantage to seeking that lens if you don't already have it for 6x9 work.
Bernice, as long as I've been here helpful posters have suggested that people with small budgets will be pleased by unobtanium.
-Which will not likely aid in their interest or passion for making expressive images.
Goes back to the GAS syndrome where the belief that some magical-mystical techno-widget will produce images that are the answer to their idealized creation. All tools-methods of creation have innate limitations, more often than not, it is better to work within the limitations of what the tools-methods to achieve 80-90% of the goal rather than try for 100% or 151+% of what is possible. Learning what these limitations are and accepting them is a significant aspect of resolving this conflict.
Reality -vs- fantasy.
Bernice
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