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Thread: Fast <f2.8 wide angle lens for astro work 4x5" <f=90mm

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    Fast <f2.8 wide angle lens for astro work 4x5" <f=90mm

    Any ideas what to recommend - a friend of mine is looking for one. All I coudl recommend was way to expensive
    or impossible to come by (Aerial lenses etc.). [any ideas Dan?]
    Klaus

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    Re: Fast <f2.8 wide angle lens for astro work 4x5" <f=90mm

    Klaus, since you asked, I'm not aware of any.

    Your friend's coverage and maximum aperture requirements are killers. If he can relax his maximum aperture constraint there are several f/4.5ers at 90 mm and shorter that cover 4x5 from, in alphabetical order, Nikon and Rodenstock. If not, I think he's stuck in wishful thinking territory.

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    Re: Fast <f2.8 wide angle lens for astro work 4x5" <f=90mm

    Well Dan, more or less exactly what I told him; but I wanted to crosscheck for sure.
    Wishful thinking indeed IMHO.
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    Re: Fast <f2.8 wide angle lens for astro work 4x5" <f=90mm

    Hugo, I have a Uran-27. The lens flew on AFA-39 and RA-39 cameras, which shot 70 x 80 mm on 80 mm film. Not a 4x5 lens at all.

    The 100/2.9 Biotessar isn't a 4x5 lens either.

    No slower than f/2.8, no longer than 90 mm, and covers 4x5 isn't very available. Perkin-Elmer made a 3"/2.5 mapping lens that covers 4x5. Finding one is a challenge, so is paying ...

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    Re: Fast <f2.8 wide angle lens for astro work 4x5" <f=90mm

    Quote Originally Posted by Dr Klaus Schmitt View Post
    Wishful thinking indeed IMHO.
    What's more wishful than wanting to find such a lens is expecting such a thing to be fit for astro work (in the wide apertures).

    If all your friend wants is a better SNR, ask him to increase the format size? For example a hypothetical 75mm f/2.8 on 4x5 is equivalent to a 150mm f/5.6 on 8x10...

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