The Year is 1928....

[Two23]

Assuming 4x5, what would have been the "hot" wide angle lens (90mm-135mm) of the day 1925-1930? I'm thinking of something relatively fast. Don't need soft focus. Another question I've been pondering is when the first lenses came out that had "X" sync. What were some good wide angle lenses with that, preferably pre-war?


Kent in SD

[Jan Pedersen]

Taylor Taylor Hopson (TTH) or Cooke series VIIb all f6.5 for focusing and all recomended to be stopped down to at least f11 for taking.
Came in several focal lenght under the name Anglic.

[Jim Galli]

American lenses would include Bausch & Lomb Series V and Wollensak Series III ExWA. Both are difficult to use especially in 4X5 sizes because of the tiny aperture required for WA lenses at that time B&L is f18 and Wolly f12.5 respectively.

Dagor's were always considered "wide field" lenses at 82 - 85 degrees. A 12cm Dagor is very useable on 4X5.

[Mark Sawyer]

Assuming 4x5, what would have been the "hot" wide angle lens (90mm-135mm) of the day 1925-1930? I'm thinking of something relatively fast....


The Angulon came out in 1930 with a speed of f/6.8. I'd say that or a small Cooke VIIb. I'm not sure when the 127mm Ektar or 135 Optar came out. 135mm Tessars would have covered 4x5 too...

[jp]

at the 135mm end, a zeiss tessar would be a popular lens.

[Nathan Smith]

The camera eccentric site has a lot of online copies of old lens catalogs and info:
http://www.cameraeccentric.com/info.html

Front and center is the 1928 Bausch & Lomb lens catalog, but there are more on the page that would be appropriate: Wollensak, Taylor-Hobson, Gundlach, etc.


Assuming 4x5, what would have been the "hot" wide angle lens (90mm-135mm) of the day 1925-1930? I'm thinking of something relatively fast. Don't need soft focus. Another question I've been pondering is when the first lenses came out that had "X" sync. What were some good wide angle lenses with that, preferably pre-war?


Kent in SD

[Two23]

What year did "X" sync start getting added to the lenses? I'm going to guess mid 1930s? What were the first shutters to add PC posts and X sync?


Kent in SD

[Maris Rusis]

My Voigtlander Anastigmat Skopar 1:4.5 F=13.5cm No 449252 in a dial set Compur shutter works superbly on my Tachihara 45GF. It must have been a stunning lens in 1928; if my reading of its serial number is right.

[Mark Sampson]

Two23, the earliest flashbulb synch was the solenoid type as seen on Speed Graphics. They did not require in-shutter synchronization. Shutters began to have internal synch around 1940; the earliest ones had 'M' for regular flashbulbs and 'FP' for long-duration 'focal-plane' bulbs. This was when the bi-post and Kodak-ASA 'bayonet' connectors appeared on the shutters. (I have an early Kodak Supermatic shutter that lacks X-synch, while I have another from '48 with it.) X-synch for electronic flash probably became common after WW2; the standard 'PC' push-on flash connection that we're still burdened with today came after that, probably first seen on smaller 'miniature' cameras.