After some horse trading and buying sprees I now have some Kodak Ektar f3.5 100mm lens elements and one set of elements in a Flash Supermatic shutter which I believe once was attached to a Kodak Medalist II. I see no easy way to use this shutter on a view camera.

I dug out a Kodak Ektar WF 100mm in a Graphic Flash Supermatic and swapped the lens elements from the Medalist Flash Supermatic shutter. They seemed to screw in just fine.

Do I now have a Heliar f6.3 100mm lens that will be usable as a view camera lens to cover 2x3? Can I use the same aperature scale from the Wide Field shutter from f6.3 to f32?

Is there any theoretical gain for using the Heliar lens design instead of the double Gauss for 6x7 color film?

I await the lens guru's advice.

Thanks,

Wayne