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bwaysteve

6-Mar-2008, 10:49

Does anyone own this lens?I found one for $450 in a copal in great shape.
I will use this mostly for 3/4 body shots of people and need good sharpness.
Any info is appreciated and other suggestions in this focal lenght for my application would be great.Steve

Joerg Krusche

6-Mar-2008, 11:04

Hi,

your people might not like that much sharpness .. Great Lens !

Joerg

jetcode

6-Mar-2008, 11:15

Hi,
your people might not like that much sharpness .. Great Lens !
Joerg

I can always slop a lot of vaseline or petroleum jelly on the front to soften it up a bit :eek:

Mark Woods

6-Mar-2008, 11:19

KY Jelly is optical. Better solution and it's water soluble.

jetcode

6-Mar-2008, 11:51

KY Jelly is optical. Better solution and it's water soluble.

have to love that response - quality information in the midst of a bad joke and a common practice

bwaysteve

6-Mar-2008, 12:40

From the responses I probably do not need to worry about sharpness.

Matt Blaze

6-Mar-2008, 17:18

I also have one of those. It's quite sharp, and has room to spare for any movements you'd want to use on it at 4x5.

One question; how does one shade this lens? I normally use a Lee shade, but this thing has a huge diameter, too big to even fit within a 4x5 Sinar compendium bellows (I shoot with a Sinar P).

-matt

erie patsellis

6-Mar-2008, 19:47

Matt,
I'm facing the same issue with my 360 Symmar on my 810 P, (hopefully soon to arrive), testing on the 4x5 F tells me that as long as the front element is close (the closer the better) to the beginning of the bellow, it shades it well.

erie

fotopfw

28-Dec-2017, 09:28

This lens is even good for 8x10" and adjustments, image circle is 435mm.

scerto

14-Jan-2018, 08:22

Most superb lens I own, razor sharp.

Pere Casals

14-Jan-2018, 09:28

I use the N 300-MC, perfect lens.

For portrait you may want a just perfect lens or a lens with particular imperfections, this is about taste.

The 360mm focal is near the same than 14", a focal very used by Yousuf Karsh for 810, IMHO that focal delivers amazing balance of perspective vs dof for that kind of portraits, the 1946 Boogie's portrait by Karsh is a master piece in that focal:

https://karsh.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Yousuf-Karsh-Humphrey-Bogart-1946-1564x1960.jpg

Armin Seeholzer

14-Jan-2018, 09:42

I like mine too and use the bellows just in front of the lens!