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    finally taking up the challenge

    Hi one and all,

    I've retired from a 40 year freelancer career primarily as a photojournalist-sports-fashion shooter which meant shooting 35mm most of the time, occasionally 6x6 and very rarely...
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    Re: Bausch and Lomb Tessar series 1c

    Thanks Ian.

    It certainly seems the Tessar type was/is very popular and as you point out there's lots of options for me check-out.

    Crombie
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    Re: Bausch and Lomb Tessar series 1c

    Good advice. Will search for a Velostigmat and forget the Ilex. The B&L I'll keep for landscapes when shooting paper negs with my lens cap being the precision shutter.

    I'm new at paper negs and...
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    Re: Bausch and Lomb Tessar series 1c

    All very helpful and my thanks. The 4x5 (6.5") is too short for portraits so took it back and by a miracle they found a 5x7 version. Would know the focal length of this lens. I'm hoping close to 10"?...
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    Re: Bausch and Lomb Tessar series 1c

    Thanks for the focal length info and I'll take your advice and not both with a shutter. The lens is on loan and I'll return it and save a few dollars.
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    Re: Bausch and Lomb Tessar series 1c

    I just picke-up a 4x5 f4.5 B&L-Zeiss Tessar series 1c stamped with Pat Feb 1903 serial #1259269. It's in excellent condition. Any idea of it's focal length and it a lense worth getting mounted in a...
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