Is there any advantage to taking photos with a barrel lens (no shutter)? What would be a good brand to keep an eye out for?
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Is there any advantage to taking photos with a barrel lens (no shutter)? What would be a good brand to keep an eye out for?
Well, if you want really long exposures. Or poorly-timed short ones.
Brand? Leiss or Zeica.
Remember, NJ is the state of exits and abrasion.
You forgot all our tolls. I guess I was wondering if they gave the photos a different look.
The advantage? They don't cost an arm and a leg.
Off beat ones can bring interesting bokeh to the party.
What format do you want to cover?
Brand? You don't need no stinkin' brandshttps://youtu.be/VqomZQMZQCQ
Barrel lenses are just normal lenses without a working shutter
so we do something else
maybe a hat,
so any lens with a broken shutter is now a Barrel lens
Many LF lenses, including some modern ones, have been sold in both barrel and shutter. Those pairs could render differently under some circumstances if the barrel and shutter mountings have different iris designs.
But there's no "barrel look" in general, just a lot of lens-specific looks.
Some barrel lenses were designed for process cameras and may be optimized for close-ups, rather than landscape work -- or will work for both. For long lenses, I have Red Dot Artars (19" and 24") -- the Red Dot , I believe means they are coated and not designed solely for close-up work. They come in a variety of focal length. Their relatively narrow angle of view means they will not cover as well as modern plasmats of the same focal length. I use the 19" and 24" on both 8x10 and 11x14. This link has some good info on them.
https://www.pacificrimcamera.com/rl/00268/00268.pdf
The biggest advantage is (sometimes) cost, but other challenges if you desire a shutter, iris with correct markings, sometimes proper spacing, other costs etc...
If needed for long, slow exposure work (like table top sets) or other applications where exposures can run over 1 sec, they are ready... But I'm working on a few lenses now that need assembly & some engineering, and it's coming up in my head that it would have been easier to just buy the lenses factory assembled...
Can be a money pit if you have to send it out to a pro like SK Grimes and find a shutter etc for it...
Steve K
Actually, that reminds me... I'd have to dig to find documentation, but I remember being told that some process lenses - G-Clarons, perhaps Apo-Ronars - had slightly different cell spacing when sold in barrel vs shutter, based on manufacturer assumptions about different intended uses.