Information about the Kodak Ektar 127mmm/4,7 and WF Ektar 80mm/6.3

[volker_schlichting]

I am new to the LF Photography. I own a Speedgraphic 3 ¼ x 4 ¼ with an Ektar 127mmm/4.7 . I know the problem of the film format and the advantage using old Kodak lenses on my camera because I will use only the better part of the lens.

Is there anybody who can give me some dates about my lens. Like image circle, sharpness and more. I heard that this lens was the best corrected lens on axis of the Ektar series.

Does anybody has experiences with the Wide field Ektar 80mmm/6.3 ?

My English is not so good. I am German living in Mexico.

Many thanks. Volker

[pat_krentz]

I can't give you any dates, but I use a Ektar 127 on my 22 & 23 roll

backs for my speed grafic, it is very sharp and I have no problems

with it at all. Pat

[michael_meyer1]

volker--

i have been shooting with a 127 f4.7 ektar on a 4x5 speed graphic

(though with minimal movements). i have found it to be very sharp.

 

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one note, a recent set of photographs i shot were closeups, about 1:3

at max maginification. the lens is not terribly well corrected for

closeup work and i found that there was some distortion.

 

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for normal work i have found the lens to be sharp and an excellent

performer. i particularly like the look of the pictures it produces

for environmental portraits.

 

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-m

[greg_rust]

Volker,

I use the 127mm Ektar on a Crown Graphic and my tests show that it is

razor sharp at f22 and gets softer at wider apertures. It is a very

good lens for your money. Even for close up portraits, it gives very

little distortion.

 

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Greg

[dave_richhart1]

A press photographer once wrote that he was tickled to death the

day he traded his 135mm Graflex lens in for a 127mm Ektar, because it

allowed him to stand 2 feet closer to his subject, with the rest of

the press photographers.