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Ole said:

What's a "relatively old price"? Is that something like the Lancaster Patent Rectigraphic 12x10" which cost me the princely sum of £24 - the same as it cost new in 1904?

I had a Xenar 300/f:4.5 in Compound #5 shutter, which was the biggest of the compounds. As you say nice and bright, and with that DOF there is no doubt at all about whether it's in focus or not...

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Stupid typo, Ole. Had low in mind, my fingers wanted old. I seem to be losing control of myself. Arrrgh!

Thinking of silly old lenses, last week I received a 4.75"/7.7 Aldis Uno. I have no idea when it was made, and the Vade Mecum was little help in putting a date on it. Not earlier than 1902. Tiny lens. Seems to cover 2x3, put what seems like a nice image on the ground glass wide open, not hard to focus. Am waiting for that roll of EPP to come back from the lab. Tried a pair of B&L f/6.3 Tessar IIbs on that roll too, one from 1914 or so, the other from the '20s. Got some serious macro shots too, our prickly pear is blooming.

Zodelar performance

The overexposed neg of the cleaned Zodelar were salvageable enough to get a good impression of it's performance - yippie! It's a real nice lens. Would you say this image is taken with a 80 yo lens?

BTW what you see is part of a post-war modernist church(window) from the resurrection church in Arnhem. Looking through the lens, the funny mosaic window suddenly revealed its figurative side. Never noticed that before, always thought it was some meaningless abstracty mosaic type decoration. See what a good lens can do.
Regards, Norm

PS Forgot to mention: there was another shot taken at f45 which we liked better, but the neg was too bad to get any decent results