Since 1962, A Suter Stella 360mm mounted on a 4x5 german reflex (customised for bellows extension and for Fidelity back). I still use the lens on 8x10, the reflex is there but defunct.
Since 1962, A Suter Stella 360mm mounted on a 4x5 german reflex (customised for bellows extension and for Fidelity back). I still use the lens on 8x10, the reflex is there but defunct.
My oldest LF lens still here and in use is a Boyer 300mm .4.5 Saphir -in a compur shutter - bought together with my first Gandolfi camera. (10x8)
about 1990
Same as Oren--10" WF Ektar, 1990's sometime.
203mm Ektar f/7.7, bought with my first camera, a Graphic View II, in the late 1970s. I have and use both still. The Ektar is one of my staples.
Best,
Doremus
My first two LF lenses came with my first LF camera, an 8X10 Seneca Competitor View that I bought around 2001. One lens is an unmarked anastigmat of some sort, f6.3, about 8-1/2 inches focal length in a Wollensak Auto shutter and covers 8X10 with a little wiggle room. From counting reflections, it may be a series II Protar copy with the order of elements reversed. The cells cannot be swapped due to differences in thread depth. I use it for a wide angle. The other is an unmarked Petzval about 9-7/8 inches focal length in a rack and pinion focusing mount. It's mostly brass with a nickel plated barrel, and has a fixed aperture and no slot. I think it may be a late 19th century projection lens. It doesn't quite cover 8X10 at infinity, but does cover for closeup work. I've used both lenses in the last year.
My first lens was a 7" Dagor f6.8 Goerz American Optical Co. I sold it and bought a Symmar S 180mm, which is about the same focal length. I still have it. I remember reading a columnist, Steve Sint, who said that a 180mm was his favorite focal length. I think that it's also my favorite. After that, it was a Super Angulon 121mm, which I also still have.
My first was a Computar 210/6.3 which left me in 1995 (but I have replaced it). My longest continous ownership lens is a Caltar IIN 150/5.6 (about 1983 or '84)
Symmar-S 210 bought in 1980. My most-used lens.
Peter Gomena
The first LF lens to come into my posession was an 8 1/4" Dagor type in a Goerz Sector shutter. I found it and a camera at a lawn sale in Schenectady N.Y. in the early 1970s. The camera fell apart as soon as I got it home, but the lens with it's original leather and velvet caps was pristine and suvived until my LF "career" started in the mid 1980s.
One man's Mede is another man's Persian.
Sirona-N f5.6 150mm bought around 1986, although there should be a 1960's 150mm Xenar I bought in 1976 somewhere.
Ian
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