Greetings everyone. I recently purchased a nice Petzval type lens and, having no experience with these, I thought I would ask for some basic advice on how they are typically used.
Mine is mounted in a magic lantern housing. Very nice and clean and the worm gear focusing mechanism functions nicely.
It doesn't have a mounting ring but the flange threads are fine and I forsee no difficulty in getting it mounted to an appropriate lensboard.
After that though, my thoughts about actually using the lens for photos without a shutter has me wondering a bit.
I suspect many use these lenses with collodion plates which require long exposures. Which is easily done with a lens cap, taking it on and off for the required number of seconds, and I have used this technique over the years with a few LF lenses where the bulb setting wasn't working properly. So I'm wondering if this is the basic exposure technique most use.
Or preferrably, does anyone know of some type of shutter mechanism that could be adapted to work with the lens. If so this would be an interesting solution since one of my thoughts for possible use of the lens would be with one of my favorite fast films.
Suggestions and thoughts to help me learn a bit about these lenses and their use would be welcome. Cheers. Bob G.
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