Sharp lenses wide open.

[Frank Petronio]

I met a photographer who had a 150/2.8 Xenotar cammed to his Technika, and he was doing wonderful full-length, short DOF portraits, handheld on Tri-X. They had a beautiful look, I think he stopped down to f/5.6 or /8 for handheld work, and still had a decent margin of error and bokeh.

A pretty sweet set-up. Last I checked, nice 150/2.8 Xenos were in the $7-900 range on ebay.

[Lloyd Lim]

I'm currently using a Schneider Digitar 120mm/5.6 on my Crown Graphic. Not much image circle to speak of, and there is slight falloff at 5.6 at the edges, but you can consider that a plus, as you get a built-in vignetter