Originally Posted by
C. D. Keth
RRs were the sharp, multi-purpose lenses of their day when softer rendering was often more usual for portraiture. It’ll be about f8 wide open. Edward Weston liked a no-name one he bought in Mexico for his creative work even though he took several other good lenses (I believe a verito was one of them) with him to Mexico.
The tessar you’re familiar with is like the rapid rectilinear’s grandson. Zeiss separates the elements of each group slightly instead of cementing them and found the lens to be better corrected that way.
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