Needless to say I am smitten with a new lens.  Hermagis Eidoscop 150mm and 4X5 Ektapan.  The Eidoscop shares it's design lineage with the Nicola Perscheid and the Pinkham Visual Quality series IV lenses.   The French re-interpret the contrast to their liking and I must say, I love the Eidoscop lenses.  The Ektapan was 1977 film with plenty of film base plus fog present.  It was nice to play in 4X5 for a change.  What a lens!  This was done 1 stop in from wide open, f6.3

When it rains it pours.  There's been some great posts.  Nelson,  Sweet!  I've got this 150mm Hermagis Eidoscop that needs a Razzle.  Ah well, other priorities will prevail.  Here are a couple of grab shots from this weekend.  I needed two sheets to round up a JOBO 3005 tank and so did these.  They're an interesting study side by side.  First is the TRM @ f6.8, and second is the same at f45 1/2

The first was 7 seconds @ f6.8 and the second was 14 minutes f45 1/2.  Negs are identical which says a lot for the Pcatechol.  This lens is at it's best with some piece of the subject in sharp focus and then the rest left to itself.  I like 'em both.  Not bad for filler :~'))

I am blessed with 3 of Mr. Pinkham's lenses.  2 Series IV and a single 9" Series V Synthetic.  I have not done the Synthetic justice before now.  Last weekend I got to do 2 shots with it.  A case of being perfectly happy doing something else, seeing light interacting with a possible subject, and acting on that by setting up the equipment to get the shot.  This is on 8X10 with a good long bellows extension.  Wide open, I calculated and equivalent f9.  This has whetted my appetite for this lens, it is simply marvelous!

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Made with unmodified but damaged Turner Reich 12 1/4" f7 lens wide open.  On one of the groups there is a bizarre pattern in the cement very much like the intricate swirls of a finger print and about that fine.  It covers the entire optic and has a marvelous softening effect.  When you stop down it gets blurrier....but with increased depth of field.  A very weird lens that I need to PLAY with much more.

Jonathtan is of course Mr. subtle good taste so I feel it's my duty every now and again to post something truly awful.

I call that one Jim in the Peach tree....

and this one Pam in the Vortex.

The purpose was to illustrate purposefully making an image that swirls.  I used my 9" Verito on my 8X10.