Lens for 8x10

DREW WILEY · Jul 9, 2015

There was also the Osaka/Bromwell knockoff of the commercial Ektar, along with Caltar private label version, which tend to sell for less than Kodak simply because of the brand label difference. Of course, Caltar/Calumet contracted all kinds of different of lenses, so you need to know which is which.

Alan Gales · Jul 9, 2015

DREW WILEY said:
There was also the Osaka/Bromwell knockoff of the commercial Ektar, along with Caltar private label version, which tend to sell for less than Kodak simply because of the brand label difference. Of course, Caltar/Calumet contracted all kinds of different of lenses, so you need to know which is which.

Yeah, I know about Caltar. They were made by Rodenstock, Schneider, Topcon and Ilex that I know of.

GKC · Jul 11, 2015

DREW WILEY said:
There was also the Osaka/Bromwell knockoff of the commercial Ektar, along with Caltar private label version, which tend to sell for less than Kodak simply because of the brand label difference. Of course, Caltar/Calumet contracted all kinds of different of lenses, so you need to know which is which.

Yeah, there was the 375mm Ilex (Paragon? Accuton? sumthin' like that) that which even Karsh, the famous Commercial Ektar-ista, found to his liking, IIRC

Alan Gales · Jul 11, 2015

GKC said:
Yeah, there was the 375mm Ilex (Paragon? Accuton? sumthin' like that) that which even Karsh, the famous Commercial Ektar-ista, found to his liking, IIRC

Aren't those also in an Ilex shutter?

jimgalli · Jul 11, 2015

I had a 6.3 Osaka 360 in Copal 3S for a time that I thought was just lovely. I never liked the C. E. that much.

Alan Gales · Jul 11, 2015

Thanks Jim.

I did a little research and it appears that the Yamazaki Optical Company made both the Congo and the Osaka.

Why didn't you care for the Commercial Ektar?

jimgalli · Jul 11, 2015

Alan Gales said:
Thanks Jim.

I did a little research and it appears that the Yamazaki Optical Company made both the Congo and the Osaka.

That was my guess at the time. It was an enjoyable lens.

Message to the OP. People obsess about shutter speeds. Take a look at my web pages. Thousands (literally) of images made with a Packard shutter and a black hat. Just write down what the shutter's doing on a piece of white sticky and go make pictures.

Doc W · Jul 20, 2015

jimgalli said:
That was my guess at the time. It was an enjoyable lens.

Message to the OP. People obsess about shutter speeds. Take a look at my web pages. Thousands (literally) of images made with a Packard shutter and a black hat. Just write down what the shutter's doing on a piece of white sticky and go make pictures.

Jim, I like my shutters to work properly or what is the point? Having said that, I have lenses with particular speeds that are so far off, I don't even use them. I just work around the problem speed. I also shoot a lot of people, especially children, and I like to have speeds that are faster than the "hat" range. I do use that method with some lenses.

Here is an example of the "hat/one chimpanzee" method with my shutterless 24" LD Artar:

(there was a url link here which no longer exists)

Lens for 8x10

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