You see the Goerz Celor f5.5 mentioned prominently in books like Abel's Professional Portrait Lightings and others.

One came available recently at a fair price, so I decided to give it a go. The photos were done on 8X10 in setting sunlight with a 42CM Goerz Celor. Wide open mostly, although the first one was stopped well down for depth. I think it has a fine smooth look that would compete well with the competition, like the Wolly Velostigmat, or the Schneider Xenar.


The lighting would normally be difficult with contrast that would sacrifice either shadow detail or have highlights that are nasty. But the big Goerz seemed to take it all in stride. The already too contrasty Panatomic X produced negatives with a lovely range that would be easily printable. These are film scans, but I've yet to not make a better picture in the darkroom than I can with the scanner.

I think the big Goerz has well earned it's excellent reputation.

http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com/19...ton_Celor.html

The Ford? I'm envisioning a 1940's dry lakes highboy with a hopped up Model A or B engine. Sans fenders........of course.