Your Next Test

[h._p.]

I've found a few minutes to play with a Russian MTO 1000mm f10 lens. It was a super bargain buy from a shop that's closing down and it's a lens I've wanted since they were all the rage in the late 'sixties. I bought it to use on my Nikon F but that was loaded with 200 ISO film and the Eos 650 was loaded with 800 so that, I admit with shame, is what I used.<div></div>

[titrisol]

There a lot of old textile plants close to where you'll be.

Most of them are out of bussiness, nice photo ops there

 

Donald Qualls , aug 31, 2004; 03:03 p.m.

After I get settled in North Carolina, I plan to clean the shutters and calibrate the rangefinders in my two Kodak Bantam RF cameras and test them with 35 mm film -- hopefully I can get 24 shots in there.

[david_goldfarb]

Well, the 5x7" Graflex is working nicely, but I've got to refine my 5x7" tray processing technique a bit to avoid scratching my negs. You would think that having plenty of experience tray processing 4x5", 8x10", and 11x14", it wouldn't make a difference to start doing 5x7", but the tray size is different, so on the first round I misjudged the amount of solution I needed for 4 sheets, and J&C Classic 400 is fragile stuff for tray processing--results were not good.

[sionnac]

Randy, I'm assuming the Tengor is marked for the metric system; see <a href="http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/dates.htm">a chronology</a> for details.

[david_goldfarb]

<img src="http://www.echonyc.com/~goldfarb/temp/cp400/N,piano.jpg"><P>

 

Okay, processing issues solved. Here's the first good test with the 5x7" Press Graflex, B&L 5x8 f:4.5 Tessar at f:5, 1/60 sec., handheld, available light, new J&C Classic 400, EI 160 in ABC pyro (1+1+1+7), 12 min.

[jonathan_bundick]

I think I'm done buying for a while. I have too many shelved projects so Ebay is off limits. Still fooling around with my Agfa Isolette II and HP%+, and my Super Graphic. Having too much fun and learning to use what I have effectively.<div></div>

[sionnac]

Not so sure the Tengor is meters! A friend was testing the focal distances one his (he has a few) and feet seemed more accurate. Maybe made for the US market? I'll research it a bit, spoke too soon, apologies. My tests seemed way out of focus for foot measurements, and a tripod was used, but... Matt taped some wax paper over the film carriage and used it like a ground glass to sight through the lens from the open back.

[randy_skopar]

Maybe the answer is simple: My frontar has the numbers 3 - 6 for the close range. Does it make more sense for a meniscus lens to have a close focus of three feet, or three meters? Anyone up on meniscus lenses?

[Jochen_S]

A Vito II which a friend traded in for a pizza and still my Linhofs and the worst: I haven't compared my cheap Voigtlaender Brillant to the Mamiyas for 14 years yet.

[oliver_collaud]

Randy,

 

The Tengor I just found today in a family basement (in continental Europe) has 1-2 for close focus. Therefore I guess that the "scale" on yours is in feet and meters on mine.

 

Regards

 

Oliver