It's ironic. I've been trying to pare down the number of magazines I subscribe to. I decided that View Camera was one I could let go. Ex of the Color portfolios, everything seemed to be duplicated someplace else, or was survey info easily availble through google. Then this porfolio laden issue comes along and it was so good that i had to buy it.
I read Gordon Hutchings review of the Cooke convertable and I couldn't help thinking that it was a little too glowing. I find it hard to believe that a convertable lens, down to a single element can match the performance of a modern optic, yet that's what Gordon seems to be implying. A simple comparison under a 10x magnifier of a Cooke negative vs. the same pic taken with an apo-symmar doesn't seem that difficult to do.
The PMK vs. Pyrocat was actually good in that there was a detailed comparison, within the limits of published pictures. Again it misses mentioning that Pryocat works in a Jobo and PMK doesn't.