Iston lenses worth bothering?

[paul_freeman]

I was a photo warehouse today and I was shown an "Iston" 240mm LF lens made in China. It was very cheap for such a lens and had a pretty ridiculously wide aperture, something like f3.5

 

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Has anyone used one of these and are they any good?

 

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Cheers

 

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Paul

[andrea_milano]

Dear Paul,

no I didn't use a 240mm Iston, infact, I believe that you refer to a

barrel lens which might have been equipping one of their "atelier

camera", unusual though it might seem, these barrel lenses can be

surprisingly bright (3,5 my word.....), generally tessars with good

results in portraiture, if they are cheap always buy....