Recommend A Trashy But Interesting 8x10 Lens?

[E. von Hoegh]

I think Ari wants a Sally Mann lens!

Well, for a mere $999 I'l take any lens Ari sends me and with my patented mixture of sand, cigar ash, coal clinker, and moon rock I'll completely destroy the surfaces. I'll throw some in the shutter, too, so Ari can brace the camera with his head while holding a lens cap on with one hand and removing the darkslide with the other.

[Jody_S]

Well, for a mere $999 I'l take any lens Ari sends me and with my patented mixture of sand, cigar ash, coal clinker, and moon rock I'll completely destroy the surfaces. I'll throw some in the shutter, too, so Ari can brace the camera with his head while holding a lens cap on with one hand and removing the darkslide with the other.

Or he could buy just about any lens off fleabay advertised with 'perfect glass' and get pretty much the same result.

[John O'Connell]

Anything from Carl Meyer. It's a made-up marque and reputedly some lenses just had mismatched cells screwed into shutters.

Also, interregnum Wollensaks might work for you, and also triplets from the same period.

[Ari]

Yup, and then you can learn a little bit about women... In either case, you could spend forever trying to learn one, and it wouldn't necessarily tell you much about all the others...

An uncorked Velostigmat would give you the most flexibility, from the old smooth-but-sharp(-enough) of an uncoated Tessar to a slightly soft portrait lens to a very soft pictorial lens, and (I think) it does them all well.

But right now, I have a B&L Tessar Ic on the studio 8x10. Wonderful lens. But then, aren't they all?

You see, I just learned something

[Harold_4074]

Dang, if only you wanted help with using a superb lens to make trashy pictures, I'd have something to contribute.....

[Ari]

Just re-read this last page with a hearty chuckle; thanks, everyone.
Will be receiving a very beat-up T-R 12-21-28 soon; if I'm lucky, it may even have some fungus or mold on it.

[Jim Galli]

the graduate

made with a modified turner reich 10 3/4" lens

[ImSoNegative]

nice shot Jim, who is the lovely young lady in the picture

[ImSoNegative]

i bought this intersting lens last year, not sure what it is but its hard as hell to focus because of the softness, here is a shot i did with it back in the summer,

[Jim Galli]

i bought this intersting lens last year, not sure what it is but its hard as hell to focus because of the softness, here is a shot i did with it back in the summer,

The young lady is my eldest, Heather. She'll be 33 in an hour and 16 minutes.

What a lovely look that lens has!!