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    Re: Seeking Advice For 11x14 Lens

    I use Nikkor M 450mm f/9 and TTH XVa triple convertible.

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    Re: Seeking Advice For 11x14 Lens

    Quote Originally Posted by Vaughn View Post
    Mine does not seem to really cover 11x14 well....
    I have the one with inside lettering, it covers. But it's also an odd filter size that's not in any of the lists.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jody_S View Post
    I have the one with inside lettering, it covers. But it's also an odd filter size that's not in any of the lists.
    Might be an odd beastie then. I do not believe the 300mm or the 360mm changed design much and kept their same image circles when Fuji Ws went from inside to outside writing. My 300 is outside lettering and the 360 is inside. Fuji gives the W 300mm an image circle of 420 which is the bare minimum for 11x14. This is from Fuji info after the lettering all went to the outside. Focusing near infinity and needing slight tilt, I can get light to the corners on an 11x14, but not sharp. The Fuji W 360mm has a circle of 485mm, and I still have to be careful with movements and try to get to f16 or smaller aperture -- I'm contact printing, so don't mind f64.

    The Fuji W 300 and the Fuji A 300 are given the same image circle (420mm). The Fuji A 360 (f10) jumps up to an image circle of 504mm, which should make it a fine 11x14 lens.
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    Re: Seeking Advice For 11x14 Lens

    Responding to the OP's request for a not too expensive "starter lens" of appx. normal focal length - something like a 19" Eastman Anastigmat (in barrel), which was my own start with this (11x14) format years ago. Set me back about 150.00 if I remember correctly...with very good coverage and performance.

    I then added a 12" Series 3 Dagor (in compound shutter) to the above, a fine performer which addressed my need to add something a bit wider. Again, about 150.00 I think (its been awhile).

    As I embraced this format a bit more - I went for an "upgrade" with a like-new condition, latest edition (Kern Swiss) 14" Goerz Blue-Dot Trigor (in Copal #3 shutter). Still mildly wide for 11x14. Astounding optic which I paid dearly for.

    Sadly sold the Trigor and currently use a late edition 305mm G-Claron (in Copal 1)...which I find very useful, handy, and high-performing for a number of formats: 4x5 (definite long focus), 5x7 (mildly long focus), 8x10 ("normal"), and 11x14 (wide).

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    I have the 19" and 24" Red Dot Artars (both barrel). Good starter lenses, also. Got them as long lenses for the 8x10, but use them with the 11x14, also. My first 11x14 images were with a loaner, home-made 11x14 with a 355 G-Claron. Pretty sweet.
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    Re: Seeking Advice For 11x14 Lens

    Quote Originally Posted by Vaughn View Post
    Might be an odd beastie then. I do not believe the 300mm or the 360mm changed design much and kept their same image circles when Fuji Ws went from inside to outside writing. My 300 is outside lettering and the 360 is inside. Fuji gives the W 300mm an image circle of 420 which is the bare minimum for 11x14. This is from Fuji info after the lettering all went to the outside. Focusing near infinity and needing slight tilt, I can get light to the corners on an 11x14, but not sharp. The Fuji W 360mm has a circle of 485mm, and I still have to be careful with movements and try to get to f16 or smaller aperture -- I'm contact printing, so don't mind f64.


    The Fuji W 300 and the Fuji A 300 are given the same image circle (420mm). The Fuji A 360 (f10) jumps up to an image circle of 504mm, which should make it a fine 11x14 lens.


    I just looked it up and found my lens in a list. I have the original 300mm with 86mm filter ring, inside writing, in Copal 3s. You are correct, the listed image circle is still 420mm. However the same website has a graph where they list lenses by image circle, the 300WS is listed as 720mm, which is the spec I originally saw when I bought the lens. I only ever used it for a few tabletop shots on 11x14, I never hauled the beast outside or used significant movements. But it had very very wide coverage.

    W S 300mm 292.9mm 5.6-90 6/4 80 420 C3s 86mm SINGLE


    An apparent early version of the 300mm f5.6 was marked "W S" and has an 86mm filter thread, like the 360mm W S. It also might have been sold with a Copal #3s shutter. The other lens features could possibly be different as well.

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    Re: Seeking Advice For 11x14 Lens

    Oh, yes, for head&shoulder portraits (but a little sharp!) or at tabletop distances, the 300 should cover 11x14 with no problem! Which I will keep in mind if the occasion arises.

    I had not heard of the Fuji SW 300/f9 lens...weighs 7 pounds and only 3 made...a rare beastie indeed!
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    Re: Seeking Advice For 11x14 Lens

    Does anyone know the coverage of a Nikon 450 Q, the single-coated version of the Nikon 450 M? If about the same, then this would be a budget conscious lens for 11x14. (Since a 450 M covers 11x14.)

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    Re: Seeking Advice For 11x14 Lens

    Quote Originally Posted by Vaughn View Post
    Might be an odd beastie then. I do not believe the 300mm or the 360mm changed design much and kept their same image circles when Fuji Ws went from inside to outside writing. My 300 is outside lettering and the 360 is inside. Fuji gives the W 300mm an image circle of 420 which is the bare minimum for 11x14. This is from Fuji info after the lettering all went to the outside. Focusing near infinity and needing slight tilt, I can get light to the corners on an 11x14, but not sharp. The Fuji W 360mm has a circle of 485mm, and I still have to be careful with movements and try to get to f16 or smaller aperture -- I'm contact printing, so don't mind f64.

    The Fuji W 300 and the Fuji A 300 are given the same image circle (420mm). The Fuji A 360 (f10) jumps up to an image circle of 504mm, which should make it a fine 11x14 lens.
    For what its worth, the 300mm W with inside lettering may get a listing of 420mm IC, but it also gets a angle of view for coverage 80° vs. the 70° of the 300mm W with writing on the outside ring.

    Fuji's literature was really ambiguous about coverage in his the inside ring W series literature. The AoV coverage never matches the IC in mm coverage.

    Quote Originally Posted by neil poulsen View Post
    Does anyone know the coverage of a Nikon 450 Q, the single-coated version of the Nikon 450 M? If about the same, then this would be a budget conscious lens for 11x14. (Since a 450 M covers 11x14.)
    Everything I've ever seen about it says that the Q is just a single coated version of the same design of the M. Another option is a APO-Ronar 420mm or APO-Ronar 480mm. I picked up the latter a year ago for ~$350.

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    Re: Seeking Advice For 11x14 Lens

    Yes...difficult to tell which is correct ...the 80 degrees or the 420mm image circle. Jody's link suggests that the AoV is incorrect and it is actually 70 degrees. But it does not seem that real solid info/specs abounds. The same happens with the 360mm...versions have significantly different AoV but the same IC. I could be wrong about the IC of the 300mm not changing significantly with a new design...might only apply to the 360mm.

    A question arises -- when determining the AoV and IC, are they computed individually? For example, with a lens design that has a focal length and AoV which should generate a specific size IC, can there be some mechanical vinetting happening that reduces the actual IC?
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