Newist Member of the family:

[seawolf66]

Well My newist aquistion has arrived, I obtained a Gundlach Mfg.,Corp. 5x7 Turner-Reich F-6.8 [71/2x12x15] in a Ilex #3 shutter which sounds very good, will take this baby out for a spin soon :

[Darryl Baird]

Cool... I'm looking forward to your results, I too just bought one with a Korona camera. I was interested in the camera for the plate holders as well. I wasn't sure if the lens was a good performer, but like the idea of a convertible lens.

Have you looked at the CameraEccentric website?

Main Grundlach page
http://www.cameraeccentric.com/html/...ndlachcat.html

Turner Reich pages
http://www.cameraeccentric.com/img/i...nastigmatc.jpg
http://www.cameraeccentric.com/img/i...nastigmatb.jpg
http://www.cameraeccentric.com/img/i...nastigmata.jpg

[Ralph Barker]

What? No "baby" pictures?

[seawolf66]

Ralph: Sorry about that: hope these will due! sorry No Cigars ran out of funds for them!

[Chuck Pere]

My 5x7 is 7 1/2. 12 and 18 in. I wonder how many versions are out there? I've only used it a couple times but it seems to work fine. On small prints looks like any modern lens to my aging eyes.

[Vick Vickery]

Looks like a very nice lens. WARNING...when you use only one lens group (converted to 12" or 15", etc.) be sure to check your focus after stopping down to your taking f-stop. Converted lenses have a tendancy to shift focus slightly after being stopped down!!! I have always suspected that alot of the folks who complain that convertible lenses give poor performance in their converted mode don't know about focus shift. By the way, I own three convertible lenses, a Wollensak, a Turner-Reight, and an Ilex, and get acceptable performance out of all of them...'course I might just not be quite as picky as some folks, too!

[Alex Wei]

good stuff you got there, enjoy.