please post your petzval shots

[sgelb]

cmon lets see them and the lenses that made them..
please also tell us what format, focal length etc.

[Bruce Schultz]

Dallmeyer 3B - 11.5 inches, f/5.6
5x7 wet-plate collodion on aluminum

[walter23]

Pretty damned good costuming and set props there, Bruce. Can't find a thing to tip me off that this is a re-enactment ('course I'm no historian).

Couple of shots from a Dallmeyer 5 1/2" projection petzval. picture of the lens, friction mounted into an oversized hole



Crop of the one pictured further down:


I really should be composing with cropping in mind for these non close-up shots, but I'm just getting the hang of this lens. Would work very well with my 6x7 rollfilm holder as well.

[walter23]

Couple more (swirly stuff in these ones):

[walter23]

And every gimmick in the book with this one:

[Bruce Schultz]

That leaf shot is terrific. It gives me vertigo.
I like the uncropped picture of the photographer better than the cropped version.

[Jim Galli]

Here is a favorite:

new york to paris

Nothing to do with this thread, but I have a neat 15 inch f6.7 Petzval to sell! 8X10 and very light.

[goamules]

Here is a recent halfplate collodion. Done with an 1862 6.5 inch, f3.8 Dallmeyer Stereo lens.



And the lens.

[jnantz]

13.5" vitax xxx film ( 5x7 )

[lungovw]

This was done with a Darlot, the one with a Cone Centralizateur, serial number 29.820. Neg is 13 x 18 cm. Film Ilford FP4 developed 8:30 min in 510 Pyro at 23°C and contact printed in Agfa MCC 111 Fb. WL