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The Behemoth's Eye, Lenses Monday, 23 August 2004 Very few modern LF lenses have enough coverage to form an image on a 20x24 piece of film. The needed image circle at infinity for ULF shooting can be calculated by estimating the diagonal of the film size, from around 460mm in 11x14 and 7x17 to close to 800mm in 20x24. (images courtesy of Red Book Nikkor, Akiyama Michio's wonderfully poetic website on Nikkor industrial lenses) The following table has been put together from various sources on the internet and is probably incomplete. It gives some inducation to the possible paths to explore in order to find lenses that can be used in ULF. The "type" colum means the following : cl= classic, Mod= Modern, Proc= Process Aero= Aerial photography lens, El= Enlarging lens. Brand Model Type Focal Length AP Circle American Optical co. Type 1 Cl 305 5.6 592 Bausch & Lomb Metrogon Aero 300 511 Bausch & Lomb Series VII convertible Protar Cl 18/30 in. 6.3 755 Bausch & Lomb Series VII convertible Protar Cl 303/481/592 7 452 Bausch & Lomb Protar IV Cl 390 12.5 780 Calumet Caltar Mod 375 6.3 468 Calumet Caltar II Mod 300 5.6 425 Calumet Caltar II Mod 360 6.8 435 Calumet Caltar S Mod 300 5.6 420 Calumet Caltar SII Mod 300 5.6 420 Calumet Caltar SII Mod 360 6.8 500 Computar F9 305 9 482 Fallowfield Extreme Wide Angle Cl 8.5 in 16 450 Fuji Fujinon-W Mod 300 5.6 420 Fuji Fujinon-W Mod 360 5.6 485 Fuji Fujinon-CM-W Mod 360 6.5 485 Fuji Fujinon-CM-W Mod 450 8 520 Fuji Fujinon-SW Mod 300 8 720 Fuji Fujinon-A Mod 300 9 420 Fuji Fujinon-A Mod 360 10 504 Fuji Fujinon-A Mod 600 11 840 Fuji Fujinon-A Mod 1200 24 1120 Fuji Fujinon-C Mod 450 12.5 486 Fuji Fujinon-C Mod 600 11.5 620 Fuji Fujinon-L Mod 420 8 480 Goertz Golden Dagor Cl 305 6.8 427 Goertz Wide-Angle Golden Dagor Cl 165 8 397 Goertz Red Dot Artar Proc 420 9.5 381 Goertz Red Dot Artar Proc 480 11 437 Goertz Red Dot Artar Proc 610 11 549 Goertz Red Dot Artar Proc 762 12.5 722 Goertz Red Dot Artar Proc 890 12.5 794 Goertz Red Dot Artar Proc 1065 14 976 Goertz Red Dot Artar Proc 1205 15 1158 Goertz Red Dot Artar Proc 1280 16 1620 Goertz Hypergon Cl 150 643 Goertz Hypergon CL 200 858 Karl Mayer Super Anastigmat Cl 305 6.8 452 Karl Mayer Apo-Process Proc 305 9 452 Kodak Anastigmat Proc 530 11 592 Kodak Commercial Ek Cl 355 6.3 444 Kodak Wide Field Ek Cl 250 6.3 422 Nikkor M Mod 450 9 440 Nikkor W Mod 300 5.6 420 Nikkor W Mod 360 5.6 494 Nikkor APO-Process Proc 210 10 305 Nikkor APO-Process Proc 260 10 378 Rodenstock Apo Ronar Mod 480 9 592 Rodenstock Apo Sironar Mod 300 5.6 490 Rodenstock Grandagon Mod 200 6.8 495 Rodenstock Sironar N Mod 360 6.8 435 Rodenstock Sironar N Mod 480 8.4 500 Rodenstock Rodagon Enl 360 6.3 397 Rodenstock Rodagon-G Enl 480 8.4 397 Rodenstock Apo-Ronar-CL Proc Rodenstock Apo-Gerogon Proc Rodenstock Apo-Gerogon S Proc Rodenstock Apo-Graphigon Proc Schneider Doppel Anastigmat Symmar Cl 360 6.8 592 Schneider Apo Symmar Mod 300 5.6 425 Schneider Apo Symmar Mod 360 6.8 491 Schneider Apo Symmar Mod 480 8 500 Schneider G Claron Mod 355 9 442 Schneider Super Angulon Mod 210 8 500 Schneider Symmar Mod 360 5.6 500 Schneider Symmar S MC Mod 360 6.8 491 Schneider Symmar S MC Mod 480 6.8 500 Schneider Componon-S El Sinar APO Sinaron D Mod 600 9 496 Sinar Sinaron S Mod 300 5.6 425 Sinar Sinaron S Mod 360 6.8 435 Sinar Sinaron S Mod 480 9 480 Taylor Hobson Cooke APO Process Anastigmat Proc 625 10 592 Taylor Hobson Cooke Wide Angle Anastigmat Cl 200 6.5 349 Turner Reich Cl 915 1118 Turner Reich Triple convertible Cl 305/535/714 6.8 452 Zeiss Ikon/Voigtlander Apo-Skopar Cl 600 9 400 Zeiss Protar III Cl 407 9 781 Zeiss Protar Cl 210 18 467 Zeiss Protar V Cl 275 528 Zeiss Protar V Cl 325 624 Zeiss Protar V Cl 632 993 Zeiss Protar VII Cl 690 1084 Last Updated ( Monday, 07 November 2005 ) Main Menu Home Articles Featured Galleries Equipment Cameras Photographers ULF equipment PJ's Project Book reviews Links Mamut Forum Blog About Mamut Photo Sponsored Links Who's Online We have 73 guests online Editors Login Username Password Remember me Forgotten your password? No account yet? Create one Syndicate Click here to subscribe to our RSS feed:

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