Carsten Wolff
19-Aug-2007, 23:37
Sounds familiar, I know.... Mark Sawyer started a thread on it's bigger (158mm) brother a while back.
I've picked up this little gem as a barrel lens recently. I put it onto an old lensboard and popped it onto my 5x7....WHOA. Wall-to-wall crispness wide open; on the GG at least it's surprisingly sharper than anything else I've got. I know these VIIb "Anglics" were often sold front-mounted (in what?) and still rated as a 5x7 lens. Mine is only ~18mm high(!) (Yes, folks, less than 3/4") and a smidgen larger than a Copal 0 opening and I'm wondering about vignetting in a shutter; also, the cell spacing isn't exactly huge. Adam @ SKGrimes&Co can't recall having done a 108mm Cooke shutter job. I haven't asked Tim at lensn2shutter (yet), but I doubt he's seen/done one either.
Does anybody have (seen) one mounted in a (modern) shutter? This one would look great in a Copal 0 or even 1 (but might be better in an Alphax....rounder aperture and all that).
thanks.
I've picked up this little gem as a barrel lens recently. I put it onto an old lensboard and popped it onto my 5x7....WHOA. Wall-to-wall crispness wide open; on the GG at least it's surprisingly sharper than anything else I've got. I know these VIIb "Anglics" were often sold front-mounted (in what?) and still rated as a 5x7 lens. Mine is only ~18mm high(!) (Yes, folks, less than 3/4") and a smidgen larger than a Copal 0 opening and I'm wondering about vignetting in a shutter; also, the cell spacing isn't exactly huge. Adam @ SKGrimes&Co can't recall having done a 108mm Cooke shutter job. I haven't asked Tim at lensn2shutter (yet), but I doubt he's seen/done one either.
Does anybody have (seen) one mounted in a (modern) shutter? This one would look great in a Copal 0 or even 1 (but might be better in an Alphax....rounder aperture and all that).
thanks.