A teaser.

I was BUSY this weekend and you get a 2 fer!  I promised a page of comparison shots with the NEW2ME Hermagis Eidoscop 150mm on 4X5.  It is here:

http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com/150Eidy/150Eidoscop.html

But wait!  There's more!  If you push the button NOW I'll include an extra post about a Darlot 12" Landscape lens for FREE!

http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com/150Eidy/12inchDarlotLandscape.html

Hurry! because this offer won't last forever   :cool:

Love to hear your thoughts as always!

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 :~'))

Note me as another satisfied customer of Dean Jones, the Australian camera-hacker and innovator.

Late last year, while tooling around a Tulsa flea-market with my pal Bruce Appel, I stumbled upon a nice Polaroid 110B and purchased it. After making contact with Dean Jones, I forwarded both camera and down payment to Mr. Jones. In March 2008, I received my IRS refund and completed the transaction with Dean, who set about converting my camera. Yesterday, June 23rd, my Razzle was received at the post office, and a quick shot put past the Fujinon 150/6.3 lens.

In a word: Bliss.

Dean Jones is highly regarded, and I recommend him to any seeking an alternative to the much more expensive options out there for RF-focused 4x5 cameras and conversions. Dean is a passionate hacker; but be advised, his waiting list is growing by the day--Get on it soon!

Model: Buffie Brooke
EV/Film: 1/30" @ F8, Fujifilm FP-100C45

This is a FP4-Xtol test shot w/the 2 grps of the TH projection lens.   In the interest of avoiding Lung damage/Renal failure and everything else that goes w/some of these chemicals, my return to the dev my own stuff is going to have to be w/Xtol.  I figure if Citric Acid is going to Jack me up, then I might as well quit. 

This test shot and probably a bunch more I need to do on the way is practice to get out the cobwebs/rust from my agitation technique and working my way back to nice even development. 

This is a test, but the focus is on the money, and for the central SM, I uploaded this to give an idea of what this lens does via a big 4x5 neg ala FP4 as opposed to the Fuji version of the same SM below.  Soft but smooth, kind of a combo between the AeroEktar and the TR, and minus the color of the previous Fuji shot maybe this unmasks more of the lens nuance.

The shots that I've sent Alan Wedertz for printing to the Fomabron Velvet 123, and Adox MCC III were on FP4 shot w/the TR 10 inch and dependent on the result of those shots, I may do some more shots(do they still call 'em still lifes?) w/the 2 frnt grps of the Cooke when this paper goes into production.