Verito on 5x4 @ f8 Foma 200 in FX1. I focussed by stopping way down and focussing to get the sharpest image then opening the studio shutter until the degree of softness is apparent on the GG. What ever that aperture is I adjust the exposure accordingly. The groundglass is always slightly more diffuse than the actual film, not by much though.

I shot this yesterday as a means of futher education in the use of a rather amazing lens - a 9" Verito. I want to learn how to use it in a manner that doesn't just rely on the SF aspects.. I shot this at about f11.

Steve

This is a portrait I shot recently of a friend of mine who I recently introduced to LF photography. Ervin is a sculptor and kind enough to sit for me. This was taken with the front element only of a brass portrait lens wide open. Well no waterhouse stop fitted. Shot on 5x4.

I shot these as an experiment to see how the two lenses would behave.

The tight shot is done with the front element only of a Quick Acting 8 Portrait lens - wide open

and the second shot is the Petzval front barrel married to a Verito Rear barrel with a studio shutter in between. The second shot has a  rather dirty neg :) but it is only at this stage an experiment. 

When i acquired my Verito from Jim he offered me the front and rear barrels to another lens that also used the same studio shutter as the Verito. Naturally for the small additional cost I gladly accepted his kind offer. This image is done with the [I'll call it a Wollensak Series A] Wolly in an attempt to step away from the clinical landscape style I have done in the past. It is a very hard task to use a Petzval like this one in a landscape and not have too much of the radial blur happening in the background. While this lens is a Petzval it is a 9" and on 5x4 the swirlies may not be so prominent as say a 5x7 or 10x8. With the discussion on pictorialism happening on Largeformatphotography I felt inspired to see what would happen with this lens in a ladscape instead of a portrait situation.