Mo Widest lens ever made to cover 8X10. My entry:
Goerz
Hypergon No. Focal MM Format inches 1914 Price
0 60 5x7 $43.50
000a 75 8 x 10 $49.00
0 90 10 x 12 $52.50
0 120 12 x 16 $62.00
1 150 16 x 20 $72.50
2a 200 24 x 28 $91.00
000a w/o Star 75 5 x 7 $44.00
00 w/o Star 90 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 $47.50
0 w/o Star 120 8 x 10 $54.50


A 75 mm 000a Goerz Hypergon with Star fan. Don't you wish your Great
Grandfather had bought a dozen and put them in a lock box for you.
How about that 2a? They boasted an 1:31 f-stop.

Kirk




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"AArDvarK" wrote in message
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In my infinite quest for infinite ways to spend money on a hobby,
I now need to know what is available for WA for a 8x10 format
camera. I am a WA user (24mm or less) in the 35 mm world. I am
now foraging into the 8x10 realm. Any suggestions for a lens
with lots of coverage?

A simple base approach, simplisticly, normal lens on a
35mm camera = 50mm, for an 8x10 it's 300mm.

1/2 of 50mm = 25mm, 24mm actual for your wide angle,
1/2 of 300mm = a 150mm on 8x10. and simply so forth.

Alex



depending on how you measure/compare it (image diagonal/different
proportions and so on) 24mm in 35mm equates to around 173mm to 194mm in
8x10.

(useful excel tool here http://medfmt.8k.com/mf/lenses3.html - you can
download it )

There is also the feeling that many have (purely illusiory) that they don't
need to use a lens as wide with 8x10 as they do with smaller fomats.

24mm is a much used lens by me in 35mm. In 8x10 my 210mm or 250mm often seem
plenty wide enough. my 159mm/165mm lenses seem REALLY wide.....