My 13-year old daughter has decided it's time to move up from her 35mm Minolta o utfit and doesn't like the Autocord I let her use. She wants to use a view came ra (hooray!) instead since she likes the rectangular 2x3/6x9 format better than the square 6x6 and nearly square 6x7 format even if she's not that comfortable u sing movements and focusing with a loupe yet.

Accordingly, I'm letting her use my Galvin and an old Graflex back ... so far, s he's happy with it but after a near-miss this past weekend, I am starting to get nervous about letting her use my lenses. I have no idea how long her interest in view cameras will last -- like teenagers everywhere, her interest in things f luctuates almost daily -- but I've been thinking about buying her some cheap len ses of her own to prevent mine from suffering any damage due to accidents and/or carelessness.

A few years ago, when I was just getting started with a view camera, I bought a Tominon 105/f4.5 that was removed from a Polaroid copy camera and paid next to n othing for it. As I recall, it was an okay lens but clearly not as nice as the Sironar-N I replaced it with a year later.

According to Polaroid's site, there are 17mm, 35mm, 50mm, 75mm, 105mm, 127mm and 135mm Tominon lenses available for the MP4 camera, with the first four being la beled as "macro" lenses. I've seen them up for bid on eBay and for sale cheaply elsewhere and I'm tempted to buy a few to see whether they're acceptable perfor mers or not.

Does anybody know anything about these lenses and/or if they will work well on a 2x3/6x9 when used with some movements? I'm also open to any other suggestions for el-cheapo "starter" lenses...