What "Modern" FL's Are You Missing?

[Alan Gales]

Nope. I've got every focal length I need including the 165mm super angulon. I either pull it in my sled (winter) or it stays in the car. Also doubles as a great boat anchor.

It's expensive too. I think they charge by the pound!

[David Karp]

I would be thrilled to have a 270mm Apo-Sironar-S. But of course, it's never going to happen. (Yes, I have a 270 G-Claron, and a Graphic Kowa too, though the latter only in barrel.)

Normal lens for your WP camera? Nice. I was looking for a 270mm G-Claron for a while, but now have that focal length bracketed with a 250mm and a 300mm.

I probably have everything I need and more. But that doesn't stop me from testing the truth of that statement from time to time. :-)

[Oren Grad]

Normal lens for your WP camera?

Nah, it would be my normal for 8x10, where "normal" is defined as most comfortable/most used focal length rather than as the format diagonal. I tend to see semiwide - something around 7/8 of the format diagonal is ideal. Although it's an eensy bit wide by that standard, the 210 Apo-Sironar-S serves admirably as my normal for WP.

[Luis-F-S]

None.

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[evan clarke]

None

[Jac@stafford.net]

None what so ever.

What continues to be mystery, discovery, are the old lenses and I have not enough time left in life to know them.

A person cannot know how a lens performs unless he uses it. Modern lenses are too predictable to be interesting.
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[Robert Opheim]

a 165mm to 180mm lens that would cover 8x10 and not weight 10 pounds would be very nice. I have a Nikkor 240mm W, and a late Goerz American dagor 210mm barrel lens that covers with slight movement. Most wide angles that cover 8x10 are HUGE. These include: 165mm Super Angulon, 155mm Grandagon, Nikkor 150mm SW, Schneider 150mm XL. I like my lenses to work for all cameras - in my case 4x5 and 8x10. Except for a Wollensak 12 inch Velostigmat that broke the front standard of an old wood 8x10 all of my lenses are smaller. I don't know what these newer big cannons were designed for exactly - I would guess architectural and advertising color work.

[David Karp]

Nah, it would be my normal for 8x10 . . . .

Still nice. I like 210 on WP. Going to try a 215 Ilex for a while. I have been using a Caltar II-N, but I got the bug to try a convertible (hence the Ilex). I have a feeling that the 250 might become my most used lens on WP. Time will tell.

[DG 3313]

+1 except my solitary 300mm is a Nikon M...

Something wide for my 8x10 and something long(er) for my 8x10. My 8x10 lens collection consists of a solitary 300mm Fuji.

[Oren Grad]

Still nice. I like 210 on WP. Going to try a 215 Ilex for a while. I have been using a Caltar II-N, but I got the bug to try a convertible (hence the Ilex). I have a feeling that the 250 might become my most used lens on WP. Time will tell.

Very occasionally I'll use a 240 on WP, and long ago I even exposed a few sheets with a 300.

Anyway, happy tinkering with the Ilex!