Lenses for 8x20

[Michael Wellman]

I'm considering jumping into the deep end of the pool and getting a 8x20 (maybe 12x20). I'm curious to know what lenses people use for this format? What's the longest lens you use? The shortest? thanks

[George Losse]

Michael,
I use these three and this would be the order of which gets used the most.

450mm Nikon M
24" Red Dot Artar
12" Goerz Gold Rim Dagor

8x20 is great format. It's fun, frustrating and beyond words when everything comes together.

[Michael Wellman]

12" Goerz covers? Wow.

[Luis-F-S]

12" Goerz covers? Wow.

It does at f/45 and smaller.

[Greg]

Suggest getting a Burke & James catalog from the 1950s or the early 1960s. Back of the catalog is dedicated to listing all the lenses they had FS back then. Also the formats they covered. A treasure trove of specs on vintage lenses. Got copies of their March 1961 and June 1962 catalogues for around $20 off the big auction site. Well worth many times the cost over the past years. Twice the info in the catalogues stopped me from buying 2 lenses that the owners exaggerated (I believe) the covering power of those two optics. Only downside is reading that, for instance, a new 12" Goerz Golden Dagor went for $285 in a barrel mount and $295 in a self cocking Ilex shutter!!!!

[Luis-F-S]

Only downside is reading that, for instance, a new 12" Goerz Golden Dagor went for $285 in a barrel mount and $295 in a self cocking Ilex shutter!!!!

What you mean they're more now?!!!!!

[Two23]

What you mean they're more now?!!!!!

Using an inflation calculator, the value of $295 in 1961 is equivalent to $2,500 today. So yes, they are a bargain NOW.


Kent in SD

[Jim Galli]

270 f9 Computar, 355 f9 G-Claron, 450 Nikkor, and any old 24" you find is a nice complimentary kit.

[Michael Kadillak]

For my 8x20 Canham I regularly use the 600C Fuji, the 450M Nikkor, the 305 Computar (you have to be carefully with this lens when shooting architecture because it has some issues with field curvature at the wide extremes that you need to be aware of), the 355 G Claron as well as the 30" Red Dot and occasionally the 35" Red Dot in aluminum barrel (forward tilt the front standard forward and use a rise and a rear tilt back to square things up). Great format but I find that being keenly aware of inadvertent bellows sag and "propping this up when necessary" with a towel or ? are image savers. Spoken from direct experience - i.e. I paid for that lesson.

[angusparker]

Echo the big three 355 G Claron, 450 M Nikkor and 24” RDA. Here are some more that will cover: http://www.angusparkerphoto.com/blog...ndations-14x17


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