Originally Posted by
goamules
I know you've been doing a lot of research and may already know this, but the Struss Pictorial Lens is a single meniscus, and I believe has more chromatic aberrations than the Pinkham & Smiths, which work more on Spherical aberration, like your Verito. My Flickr site has a few Struss shots, if you search on that keyword. In the 1910s when the Struss was out, the film was much different than today. When I shot my Struss with the monochromatic wetplate (works mostly on the blue end of the color spectrum), it was extremely soft. With modern film, it's about like a Verito at about between F4.5 and 5.6.
I'm sorry I'm kind of out of it today, as people can see from my handle, I'm a mule owner and rider. Two of mine that I've had for many years, died from unrelated causes the past two days. So I'm looking at the photo boards again to try to get over them today....
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