Sure there is. The Osaka Commercial 360mm f6.8. Very sharp, light and usually cheap. It's a late coated Japanese Tessar. I love mine.
Sure there is. The Osaka Commercial 360mm f6.8. Very sharp, light and usually cheap. It's a late coated Japanese Tessar. I love mine.
Thanks, Karl - my bad for overlooking this. That's the rebranded Congo, right? For the OP, the specification for that lens is image circle 415 mm, so plenty of room for 8x10 with movement, filter size 67mm, and weight 750 g, despite being in a #3 shutter, so quite a bit smaller/lighter than the late-model plasmats from the big four.
Yes, it's same as the Congo as far as I know. Mine is in a Copal 3S from the late 80's.
Not F6.3 but then again I use a 14” GD Dagor and a 355 G-Claron!
I have a version of this in a barrel. It has the same specs, but it's possible that it's a copy. Anyway, in a barrel its fairly small and light weight. If you're photographing at f/45 or so, you can likely get your exposures to a few seconds, which is easy to do manually.
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