Description and Condition
Now this is a rare lens. I have never seen another one. A 150 mm lens is about normal for 4 x 5 and very wide for 8 x 10 ( like Grandagon ), extremely wide for 11 x14, and now we are talking, this covers 16 x 20 inches. This is good for the Wisner 16 x 20 or the Polaroid. I used it on 11x14 with maximum rise. It is currently set into a Deardorff 6" lens board. If you stand in front of the camera with the cable release, you can photograph from your toes to your nose.
The "propellor" center filter is working fine. Exposures are made by making part of the exposure with the wheel in front of the lens, and with a light puff of air from a rubber bulb at the end of a tube conected to the lens, like a barbers bulb, the wheel turns, just enough to move the fins a few degrees. Then the rest of the exposure is made with the wheel swung away from the ray path. Variations work too. All the exposure can be made with the wheel in the ray path, with the puff of air to move the fins, or the exposure can be made without the use of the wheel and that would make an image with greater exposure in the center than the edge by about three stops. That can be OK if using black and white film, and then you don't have to burn the edges down!
The important advantage with this lens is that the image is very wide angle, and big enough to hold the details, so for contact printing, silver, platinum or alternative, there is nothing like this. There is no other way to make this quality of image. An enlarged digital negative just does not make the rich smooth image that an original silver negative can produce.
Some sites to look at.
http://www.cameraquest.com/hyper.htm
This one is in great shape with clean, clear glass, no scratches or nasties. There is nothing not to like about it ( well, except for the price, but I do not give this up lightly )!
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