I noticed one of our friends, Italian Mountain photographer Alberto Bregani had a 6x12 'Holgamod' done with a 6.8 90 Angulon. Does any one have comments about the coverage, performance, characteristics of the older smaller Angulon 90s? It would be cool to cover 6x12cm to 5x7" My normal wide angle on my Deardorff 5x7 is a 4 3/8" Dagor. Done the the 90 Superangulon XL route on 5x7 & 4x10....
Thanks
Greg
Very sharp lens when stopped down to f22, but mine just covers 4x5 with the last few mm in the corners a bit soft.
Jon
my black and white photos of the Mendocino Coast: jonshiu.zenfolio.com
Here's a very useful link with hands-on results :
http://www.kenrockwell.com/schneider/90angulon.htm
Note that the 90 Angulon was never designed to cover 5x7" , though , only 4x5" when stopped down .
On later ones with high serial numbers you might squeeze out 1/2" rise on 4x5. 5x7 will be fuzzy in the corners, though the gg will be illuminated.
The Angulon is a "reverse" Dagor, and behaves about like a standard Dagor, that is it's coverage gets better as you stop down and it illuminates more than it covers sharply. Ole Tjugens posted a 5x7 IIRC done with an older Angulon that had good corners, I'll try to find it.Originally Posted by Greg Y
One man's Mede is another man's Persian.
Something to think about: The weight difference between a Super Angulon 90mm f/8 in a Compur 00 (the smallest and lightest shutter available) and an Angulon is pretty small, and a SA 90mm f/8 can cover 5x7 in a lot better fashion.
"Compur 00 (the smallest and lightest shutter available)"
Was, this shutter has not been made in decades. Neither have Compur or Prontor shutters, but in their case they haven't been made for a couple of decades. 00 for many decades.
I had one briefly, I couldn't focus it without tying my front & rear standards together with elastics (B&J). I already had a 90/8 (can focus just fine on the same camera), so I sold it, but in fact my 90/6.8 was a sharper lens. This is usually what is reported in lens tests, the 90/6.8 out-resolves the 90/8 in lp/mm by a significant margin. However, it requires less back-focus and has much less coverage as others have mentioned.
It's not only about weight. I can carry a lot more Angulons than Super-Angulons in my tiny bag (4x5" Tachihara). I like my 90mm Angulon, but I use rise a lot. The 90mm Angulon loses resolution and light so fast, it's not funny. 6x12cm is fine, 5x7" doesn't work at all.
A lot of 90 Angulons were made over a considerable time span, and allegedly the quality
could vary quite a bit.
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