Lens set for 8x10?

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Curious what people use for 810 work here. I've moved to landscape work from studio still life, which was all done near to 1:1 with a 240, and am finding that way too wide when outside. Loving the nikkor 450 and 600. What are your regular landscape lenses on 8x10? Examples from your lens set encouraged!

[Jac@stafford.net]

I can suggest one, the Caltar 375mm (14 3/4") for its sharpness even wide open.
FWIW I use wider for 8x10, but the 375mm lives in the realm of sharpness, when it is necessary.

My only woe is the #5 shutter; both of my #5 shutters have issues, namely a lame leaf which I cope with by placing it where gravity makes it work. Big shutters are a big pain in the ass.

(I got this lens from our esteemed Jim Galli, our expert in other-than-sharp. If he contributes
to this thread, read it!)

[Vaughn]

My usual is a FujiW 300. I suppose slightly on the wide side of normal. I just got a FujiW 360 that I yet to try, but hope to later this month.

A FujiW 250/6.7 recently was added to my 8x10 pack. I am enjoying it -- my 'landscape' tends to under the redwoods, where shorter lenses work nicely since everything tends to be up close. I have a 210mm (Graphic Raptor) which is also nice under the redwoods -- it has no shutter, but that is no problem under the redwoods...but it tends to stay at home now that I have the 250mm.

On the longer side I have both 19" (480mm) and 24" (610mm) RD Artars (no shutters). The 19" is fine under the redwoods, but I rarely see good images there for the 24". Both of these are also nice on the 11x14. I would use them more on the 8x10 if they were in shutters, the lack of shutters make those lenses hard to use in the open air. The FujiW 360 I got with the idea of using it with the 11x14 -- the only lens I have for that camera with a shutter.

All with the 300mm:

[Greg]

I keep it very simple. Since the 1970s, I have always liked to hike up gorges and shoot waterfalls. Have limited myself to 3 focal lengths.

120mm WA Nikkor - least used lens but when I need an ultra wide lens, I take this optic with me

12" f/4.5 Wollensak Velostigmat or a 305mm f/9 G-Claron - images from each of these 2 optics quite different.12" Velostigmat my favorite and most used lens. In the winter though, especially with ice or snow in bright sunlight, I use the G-Claron to cut down on flare.

508mm f/7 Caltar - a dream to focus with, looks more like a f/5.6 optic on the GG

Attached image of Glendale Falls in MA. Shot with 12" Velostigmat, negative scanned, digital negative made, and final Platinum Palladium print. Final print size 1:1 with image on negative.

[IanG]

My main lens is a 12" f6.8 Dagor, made around 1940 the original owner had it coated after WWII, it's a great lens superb results. I supplemented that with a 165mm f8 Super Angulong which came with my 2nd Agfa ansco 10x8. More recently I've added a 240mm Nikkor W which I use more for 7x5, but made an dapter board so I can use it with My 10x8 Agfa ansco cameras.

If needed I have some smaller WA lenses as the uper Angulon is huge, a pair of 159mm F12 Wollensak Ex WA lens and tine 141mm f16 Ross (Protar) WA. I also have a150mm f9 Hexanon GRII that covers 10x8.

Essentially those lenses mirror what I've used for 30 yeras for 5x4 although I;ve started using longer lenses and maybe will do the same with my 10x8's.

Ian

[tgtaylor]

240mm Schneider Symmar-S (Salt Print):

http://spiritsofsilver.com/yahoo_sit...3502_large.jpg

300mm Nikkon-W (Scanned Kallitype):

http://spiritsofsilver.com/yahoo_sit...3044_large.jpg

360mm Schneider Symmar-S )Salt Print):

http://spiritsofsilver.com/yahoo_sit...0157_large.jpg

480mm Apo Ronar (Scanned Kallitype):

http://spiritsofsilver.com/yahoo_sit...5920_large.jpg

610mm Apo Nikkor (Salt Print):

http://spiritsofsilver.com/yahoo_sit...5846_large.jpg

Thomas

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Oh my word. Better than I could have hoped for. Thank you.

Lots to investigate already. But please keep it coming.

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Those images sure make a case for the 300. Not always wide, not only normal. I've got a 300 Symmar, it is a giant, and so I rarely reach for it when packing the bag. Is 240/360/450/600 a useful batch? Far enough apart? I'm a fan of 28/35/50 in 35mm, but seem to like a bit more reach with the 810.

Any of you shoot 35 too?

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I like how you seem to compress space with most of those lenses Thomas.

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Maybe I need to think of lenses for 810 by the height of the 35 frame instead of the width...