Portrait Lens for 5x7 View

[gene_aker2]

<p>What are your favorite portrait lenses for 5x& view camera? I use an 8x10 with a reducing back. I also have a Gunlach Korona 5x7. I am just curious what other shoots use for portraits.</p>

[brucecahn]

<p>I guess a 240 is the conventional portrait lens, but I use anything at all from 55mm on up. My favorite lens for that camera is a 210 XL.</p>

[gene_aker2]

<p>Bruce, Thanks for your response. I'm with you and the 210; mine is actually a 215mm Ilex---but it certainly produces negatives I like. I used it last year shooting-- about 40 portraits with the Korona-- my "100" year old camera. I do not own a 5x7 enlarger, so they are all contact prints. Tought I might start branching out a bit. I bought a 240, and I also have a 12 inch Ektar. </p>

[vick_vickery]

<p>The 240 and the 12" are both good portrait lengths on 5x7...take a few and see which lens gives you the best look!</p>

[kelly_flanigan1]

<p>THE 5X7 GRAFLEX HOME Portrait camera used a 12" F4.5 lens; ie about 305mm; say 300 for discusion. This is a 5x7 slr camera.</p>

<p>With a regular 5x7 Graflex it uses a shorter lens; ie 8.5 inch focal length; about 216mm</p>

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[leicaglow]

<p>I can't say I had many lenses to try with my 5x7 B&J, but the 240mm and 300mm were great lenses. The former was a craponar, but hey it was 5x7 and who would notice, and the 300mm was a Schneider. I wish I still had this one.</p>

[david_r_lewis]

<p>Gene,<br>

I have three lenses that I really like to use with 5x7 format. I have an Eastman #2 studio camera and use a 14" Pinkham-Smith lens. For something a bit more portable, I have a 5x7 Deardorff field camera with a 12" Kodak Soft Focus Portrait lens and can switch to a Wollensak Triple Convertable lens for more sharper uses. Any of the three lens really pop when I switch to a 4x5 reducing back.<br>

David R. Lewis</p>

[gene_aker2]

<p>thanks, everyone. Your comments are appreciated.</p>

[carsten_wolff]

<p>Hi, Gene,<br /> Perhaps logically, I use mostly my mid-longer lenses and in 5x7" my favourites are a somewhat ecclectic mix: A 210mm/f6.3 Komura-Commercial (a tessar), an uncoated 10"/f6.8 Conley Series V and a 15"/f5.6 Tele-Raptar, (both in Alphax-Synchro shutters with modern speeds).<br /> Although I also have nice 300mm Nikkor-M and 450mm Fuji-C lenses, I tend to use those more for landscape/architecture and stopped down.<br /> Carsten</p>