frankz

<p>Just offering an opinion, as I haven't any suspicion what this particular lens might be.<br> We, as photogs, went out of our way for many years to increase the detail of our photographs but eventually noticed that these sharp lenses we demanded tore the hell out of people. This required a bunch of retouching and in some cases apologies for one's equipment/technique/whatever. We, as a group, began to gravitate back to stuff like the Imagon series by Rodenstock, buying the set of Softars for our Hassyblads, and using stuff like the soft-focus 150 sillymeter lens Mamiya made for their RB series cameras.<br> My approach was a bit different. Retired now (but 40 years as a Tool & Die Maker - I'm basically my own S. K. Grimes), I dabbled with cameras also and prefer large format due to the twists one can introduce and the ease of mounting them on the boxes. I've bought demo lenses from Edmund and mounted them in a brass barrel I machined and ended up with a lens with sufficient warts to hide whatever needed hiding on the subject - usually, a dear wimmin that wanted a nice photo of herself.<br> I say all this because these lenses are from a time where even the best of the lot were screwed up as a football bat by today's standards and have a rather high value for those who are interested in recreating the photographs of years past and the attendant whimsical appearance of the pics. I'll continue to "roll my own" but these old wonders are the next best thing for those who don't.</p>