Re: OT: lenses (Was: Front Panels - PDP8 and PDP 11

2016-03-12 Thread Roland Schregle
On 12/03/2016, at 12:54 PM, Marco Gariboldi wrote: > 2016-03-12 0:06 GMT+01:00 Roland Schregle : > >> >> Have the Tessar on a 3.5B (aka MX-EVS). Excellent expect when wide open as >> mentioned here, though I wouldn't call it entry level. I think Zeiss made >> an earlier, sub-standard lens (Bio

Re: OT: lenses (Was: Front Panels - PDP8 and PDP 11

2016-03-12 Thread Marco Gariboldi
2016-03-12 0:06 GMT+01:00 Roland Schregle : > > Have the Tessar on a 3.5B (aka MX-EVS). Excellent expect when wide open as > mentioned here, though I wouldn't call it entry level. I think Zeiss made > an earlier, sub-standard lens (Biotar ?) for Rollei before they could > deliver 75mm Tessars. >

Re: OT: lenses (Was: Front Panels - PDP8 and PDP 11

2016-03-12 Thread Roland Schregle
On 11/03/2016, at 8:01 AM, Zane Healy wrote: > >> On Mar 10, 2016, at 10:05 PM, couryho...@aol.com wrote: >> >> I wonder if the tele tessar was a true tessar design or just a use >> of 'the name' ? I have seen snipits in google referring to it being a >> true >> telephoto... with

Re: OT: lenses (Was: Front Panels - PDP8 and PDP 11

2016-03-11 Thread Marco Gariboldi
2016-03-11 5:31 GMT+01:00 Zane Healy : > Again, Rollei, where the Tessar is on the low-end, Planar is on the > high-end. And yes, even SGI had a low-end. I have two O2’s, one is > low-end, one is high-end, there the difference is the CPU.. > Nobody in his right mind would've called a(n original

Re: OT: lenses (Was: Front Panels - PDP8 and PDP 11

2016-03-10 Thread COURYHOUSE
I saved one hassie from my photo era before the computer business and after USAF I was a commercial photog. I used ELM's for fashon work and had a couple of cms and a SWC wideangle fixed lens one I keptone c w/ 80m mm and a 150 mm and a few backs th

Re: OT: lenses (Was: Front Panels - PDP8 and PDP 11

2016-03-10 Thread Zane Healy
> On Mar 10, 2016, at 10:05 PM, couryho...@aol.com wrote: > > I wonder if the tele tessar was a true tessar design or just a use > of 'the name' ? I have seen snipits in google referring to it being a true > telephoto... with a true tessar formula lens IS NOT. I think it’s based

Re: OT: lenses (Was: Front Panels - PDP8 and PDP 11

2016-03-10 Thread COURYHOUSE
I wonder if the tele tessar was a true tessar design or just a use of 'the name' ? I have seen snipits in google referring to it being a true telephoto... with a true tessar formula lens IS NOT. ok the norm for the hassleblad was a80 mm f 2.8 planar... in the rolliflex t

Re: OT: lenses (Was: Front Panels - PDP8 and PDP 11

2016-03-10 Thread Adrian Stoness
digital backs yea.. if they had one for the pentax 6x7 i woulda keted it but alas i gave up waiting and sold it bought a lens for my nikon d90 lol On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 7:25 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: > posters! The lens was a Goerz Red Dot Artar and the sharpest flat >>> field lens >>> >> On

Re: OT: lenses (Was: Front Panels - PDP8 and PDP 11

2016-03-10 Thread Zane Healy
> On Mar 10, 2016, at 7:25 PM, couryho...@aol.com wrote: > > Hasselblad did not use tessar. tesar was a good lens but certainly > not the hi end > ed# My camera’s with Tessar’s are Rolleiflex TLR’s, not my Hasselblad’s. I got the two I have more for fun than anything, but the one can p

Re: OT: lenses (Was: Front Panels - PDP8 and PDP 11

2016-03-10 Thread Marco Gariboldi
2016-03-11 4:25 GMT+01:00 : > Hasselblad did not use tessar. tesar was a good lens but certainly > not the hi end > ed# > Incorrect. There were various, like the *Tele-Tessar*, which appeared for Hasselblad. (By the way, your messages usually end up in my spam bin. Just so you know...)

Re: OT: lenses (Was: Front Panels - PDP8 and PDP 11

2016-03-10 Thread COURYHOUSE
Hasselblad did not use tessar. tesar was a good lens but certainly not the hi end ed# In a message dated 3/10/2016 8:01:07 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, mgaribo...@gmail.com writes: 2016-03-10 16:59 GMT+01:00 Zane Healy : > > > On Mar 9, 2016, at 11:37 PM, Paul Anderson wrote:

Re: OT: lenses (Was: Front Panels - PDP8 and PDP 11

2016-03-10 Thread Marco Gariboldi
2016-03-11 1:11 GMT+01:00 Fred Cisin : > C-Mount is the standard mount for 16mm movie, and then for TV cameras. > Mostly consumer/prosumer film (depending how far you go back) and, indeed, TV cameras; high(er)-end cinema lenses usually had different mounts. As people often remark: C mount lenses

Re: OT: lenses (Was: Front Panels - PDP8 and PDP 11

2016-03-10 Thread Marco Gariboldi
2016-03-10 2:53 GMT+01:00 Zane Healy : > Personally I need a nice ASPH 28mm or 35mm Summicron. I have the original > Nikkon 35mm f/2, one of the very first made, it’s been Ai’d, and it’s an > AMAZING lens. > That Nikon *(*e.g. *Nikkor-HC Auto* I presume?) 2/35 lens is quite good, but if you thin

Re: OT: lenses (Was: Front Panels - PDP8 and PDP 11

2016-03-10 Thread Marco Gariboldi
2016-03-10 16:59 GMT+01:00 Zane Healy : > > > On Mar 9, 2016, at 11:37 PM, Paul Anderson wrote: > > > > Popular or Modern Photography 20 or 30 years ago had an article on the 10 > > best lens ever made. I think Zeiss made 3 of them, and they were the only > > company with more than one. > > One o

Re: OT: lenses (Was: Front Panels - PDP8 and PDP 11

2016-03-10 Thread Zane Healy
> On Mar 10, 2016, at 4:11 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: > >>> (Note: the only digital that can handle a D-mount is the Pentax-Q. It >>> claims to be the smallest interchangeable lens digital - I need to get a >>> letter writing campaign going to convince Minox to redo their Minox-Leica >>> as a scr

Re: OT: lenses (Was: Front Panels - PDP8 and PDP 11

2016-03-10 Thread Zane Healy
> On Mar 10, 2016, at 2:49 AM, couryho...@aol.com wrote: > > Paul - My darkroom became a storage room! About 4-5 years ago my “Computer Lab” became my darkroom. :-) Though my Commodore 64 is setup between my Beseler 23C and my Beseler 45MX enlargers. :-) One of these days I have a darkroo

Re: OT: lenses (Was: Front Panels - PDP8 and PDP 11

2016-03-10 Thread Fred Cisin
(Note: the only digital that can handle a D-mount is the Pentax-Q. It claims to be the smallest interchangeable lens digital - I need to get a letter writing campaign going to convince Minox to redo their Minox-Leica as a screw-mount using C or D mount!) On Thu, 10 Mar 2016, Zane Healy wrote:

Re: OT: lenses (Was: Front Panels - PDP8 and PDP 11

2016-03-10 Thread Zane Healy
> On Mar 10, 2016, at 8:42 AM, Fred Cisin wrote: > > one of these days, . . . > The Sony Nex/E-mount is a very thin camera. Thinner than the > Micro-Four-Thirds. It can take a C-mount lens without needing a recessed > adapter. I gotta dig out my Goerz Hypar and try that on my Nex (not an A7

Re: OT: lenses (Was: Front Panels - PDP8 and PDP 11

2016-03-10 Thread Zane Healy
> On Mar 10, 2016, at 8:55 AM, Fred Cisin wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Mar 2016, Fred Cisin wrote: >> You might also get a little vignetting from any very short focal length lens >> that isn't retro-focus, since the sensors are expecting all light to be >> coming in perpendicularly, not from a optic

Re: OT: lenses (Was: Front Panels - PDP8 and PDP 11

2016-03-10 Thread Fred Cisin
On Thu, 10 Mar 2016, Fred Cisin wrote: You might also get a little vignetting from any very short focal length lens that isn't retro-focus, since the sensors are expecting all light to be coming in perpendicularly, not from a optic node very close to the center of the lens. THAT could be handl

Re: OT: lenses (Was: Front Panels - PDP8 and PDP 11

2016-03-10 Thread Fred Cisin
If anyone knows of a good digital body that will adapt to RTS optics, please let me know. On Thu, 10 Mar 2016, Zane Healy wrote: Take a look at the Sony a7 series of bodies, people are using RTS lenses on them. You can put almost anything on them, and they’re a full frame sensor. I know that

Re: OT: lenses (Was: Front Panels - PDP8 and PDP 11

2016-03-10 Thread Zane Healy
> On Mar 9, 2016, at 11:37 PM, Paul Anderson wrote: > > Popular or Modern Photography 20 or 30 years ago had an article on the 10 > best lens ever made. I think Zeiss made 3 of them, and they were the only > company with more than one. One of my all time favorite lenses is the Hasselblad 80mm f

Re: OT: lenses (Was: Front Panels - PDP8 and PDP 11

2016-03-10 Thread COURYHOUSE
Paul - My darkroom became a storage room! still have the monster 5x7 durst enlarger w/ vacuum easel that I had since the 70s. what a beast! then I have small 2x3 omega to pull strips of negatives though to print. yea the digital stuff was a game changer indeed... I do not know a

Re: OT: lenses (Was: Front Panels - PDP8 and PDP 11

2016-03-09 Thread Paul Anderson
I also don't know if I will ever use my darkroom again, and have Omega D2, other enlargers, print washers and dyers, etc that I don't need. On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 1:37 AM, Paul Anderson wrote: > Popular or Modern Photography 20 or 30 years ago had an article on the 10 > best lens ever made. I t

Re: OT: lenses (Was: Front Panels - PDP8 and PDP 11

2016-03-09 Thread Paul Anderson
Popular or Modern Photography 20 or 30 years ago had an article on the 10 best lens ever made. I think Zeiss made 3 of them, and they were the only company with more than one. I know there are a lot of great optics out there, but I still love Zeiss. I have several Zeiss cameras, binoculars, micro

Re: OT: lenses (Was: Front Panels - PDP8 and PDP 11

2016-03-09 Thread COURYHOUSE
I need a 90 mm summacron for my m2 (drop me a line off list if anyone has one) Yes I know the 105 f 2.5 nikkor you speak of great sharp portrait length lens for the nikon F! we have a small 105 mm red dot Goertz we used for copy work on 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 in compur

Re: OT: lenses (Was: Front Panels - PDP8 and PDP 11

2016-03-09 Thread Zane Healy
> On Mar 9, 2016, at 5:25 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: > >>> posters! The lens was a Goerz Red Dot Artar and the sharpest flat >>> field lens > On Wed, 9 Mar 2016, Rod Smallwood wrote: >> Thanks,, >> Our cam was fitted with a high grade Ziess lens that cost a fortune even >> then, > > Zeiss