Puzzling

I was talking to one of the guys at Midwest Photo Exchange today about
the LF business. He was saying it was going gangbusters, that he was
ordering 20 (or was it 60?) 4x5's a month (or was it every three
months?), and ordering lenses from Nikon in Japan all the time. I told
him that I did not understand Nikon's withdrawl from the LF lens market
if that was the case. He also told me that the people buying these
cameras were NOT buying LF darkrooms, but scanning the negs. HUH?

Nikon is selling lots of LF lenses, but leaves the business?

Zeiss left the LF lens business a few years ago, because (they said) LF
photogs did not want to pay Zeiss prices.

"Large Format
The Carl Zeiss product range included top-class camera lenses for
Linhof large-format cameras up to the 1970s.These lenses were much
sought after by aerial photographers who wanted to take high-resolution
photos at full aperture using low-speed film and short shutter speeds
(1/500s and shorter).

These exacting demands, however, were not made by the majority of
large-format photographers. This meant that there was no general
willingness to bear the high costs of such highly corrected lenses.
This is the reason why Carl Zeiss discontinued the supply of lenses for
general large-format photography."

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I was talking to one of the guys at Midwest Photo Exchange today about
the LF business. He was saying it was going gangbusters, that he was
ordering 20 (or was it 60?) 4x5's a month (or was it every three
months?),

Foggy, UC?

The Carl Zeiss product range included top-class camera lenses for
Linhof large-format cameras up to the 1970s.These lenses were much
sought after by aerial photographers who wanted to take high-resolution
photos at full aperture using low-speed film and short shutter speeds
(1/500s and shorter).

Face it, most LF amateurs are so insecure about focus and corrections that
they shoot at very large (numerical) apertures.

Is it f/64 yet?


WhoCares wrote:
wrote in message
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I was talking to one of the guys at Midwest Photo Exchange today about
the LF business. He was saying it was going gangbusters, that he was
ordering 20 (or was it 60?) 4x5's a month (or was it every three
months?),

Foggy, UC?

The Carl Zeiss product range included top-class camera lenses for
Linhof large-format cameras up to the 1970s.These lenses were much
sought after by aerial photographers who wanted to take high-resolution
photos at full aperture using low-speed film and short shutter speeds
(1/500s and shorter).

Face it, most LF amateurs are so insecure about focus and corrections that
they shoot at very large (numerical) apertures.

In article ,
"WhoCares" wrote:

Face it, most LF amateurs are so insecure about focus and corrections that
they shoot at very large (numerical) apertures.

And then are those photographers who act secure
thereby changing their name time after time.

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or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong,
is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable
to the American public."--Theodore Roosevelt, May 7, 1918

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G- Blank spake thus:

In article ,
"WhoCares" wrote:

Face it, most LF amateurs are so insecure about focus and
corrections that they shoot at very large (numerical) apertures.

And then are those photographers who act secure
thereby changing their name time after time.

Yeah, like "Little Green-Eyed Dragon" or whatever, right?.


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and interpret information, did not see Hamas doing very well in the
Palestinian election in the wake of these other Islamist victories,
then it is either willfully blind or totally incompetent—-
and neither possibility is a very comforting thought.

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He also told me that the people buying these cameras were NOT buying
LF darkrooms, but scanning the negs. HUH?

And this is why I have three (3) working Nikon LF4500AF Scanners with
all the film holders including all the 4X5 holders.
Bob AZ