JoeV
11-Oct-2011, 19:06
I've had this lens for awhile, intending to use it on a box camera, but it won't accept water house stops, and my box camera doesn't have a functional shutter; so it sat unused.
Then this week I was watching a documentary on photographer David Burnett, who uses a Kodak Aero Ektar on his press camera, and this got me to thinking about that unused Fuji lens sitting around. So, I cobbled together this crude lens mount adapter for my Speed Graphic.
The lens, it operates wide open at F/4.5, and thus I time the exposures with the camera's curtain shutter.
The lens mounted on the camera:
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6217/6235910191_d9e85f71fe_b.jpg
Two test images, captured onto Harman Direct Positive fiber paper:
Raven (exposure time 1/15s.):
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6042/6235910585_989a204478_b.jpg
Sun Face (exposure time 1/10s.):
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6157/6236435012_bed69c99db_b.jpg
Then this week I was watching a documentary on photographer David Burnett, who uses a Kodak Aero Ektar on his press camera, and this got me to thinking about that unused Fuji lens sitting around. So, I cobbled together this crude lens mount adapter for my Speed Graphic.
The lens, it operates wide open at F/4.5, and thus I time the exposures with the camera's curtain shutter.
The lens mounted on the camera:
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6217/6235910191_d9e85f71fe_b.jpg
Two test images, captured onto Harman Direct Positive fiber paper:
Raven (exposure time 1/15s.):
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6042/6235910585_989a204478_b.jpg
Sun Face (exposure time 1/10s.):
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6157/6236435012_bed69c99db_b.jpg