Originally Posted by
Dan Fromm
Ian, I'm of two minds about encouraging the use of aerial camera lenses. They can be very inexpensive. That's great. And experimenting is good too.
Against that, few will fit in standard shutters and are quite expensive to put in shutter if the job can be done at all. Longer ones can be very heavy. And in truth many aren't all that good. That's not so great.
I still have a pile of lenses extracted from aerial cameras. All were affordable, most just confirm the VM's advice that they're more trouble than they're worth. Exceptions include the 38/4.5 Biogon, 100/2 TTH Anastigmat and 12"/4 TTH, the latter two ex-Vinten F95 and AGI F134/F139 and all three for formats too small to mention here.
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