Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/11/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I mostly photograph with 4x5 and 617, and there aren't many "magic lens". Oh sure you have 150 APO Sironar S or the Super Symmar XL, or the Gold Dagor, but in the end, one stands alone (*) :-) - the Cooke PS945, which recreates the look of the legendary Pinkham and Smith Visual Quality IV lens. Most of my 4x5 portraits are taken with the lens. I checked that the image circle should cover 617, and indeed it does. There is hardly any light by the time I set up the camera, so this is about F5, but the bokeh is oh so smooth. http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20151104-Scanned-1283.jpg Shen Hao 617, Ektar 100 (why EKtar? Because I have a 617 frame left on the roll, normally I use Portra 160 for portraits...), Cooke PS945 (*) I am being hyperbole -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto // https://instagram.com/richardmanphoto