Large Format Lenses

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As I sold off all my lenses when I sent the Zone VI 4x5 to Vatican City, the hunt was on for replacements.

 

90mm Super Angulaon  210mm Super Angulon

 I started the process by grabbing a Super Angulon 90mm f/8 and a 210mm Symmar-S f/5.6 lenses.  These are shown mounted on the Graflex lens boards.

 

Lens Boards    Lens Board II 

I decided to put the 3D printer to work and designed some lens boards in Fusion 360.  I discovered a PETG filament that is very close to the color of the camera's wood.  I have made one or two using a black filament.  The brown filament was difficult to get to adhere to the printer bed.  

 

Hat Lens Board   Hat Lens Board II

 

Nikkor 300mm   High Hat Lens Board and 300mm

The 300mm Nikkor needed a little bit more reach from the film plane, so I printed a "hat" type lens board with about an inch of extension.  Without it I found the rail had to be extended to its limit in many situations.  The final version was printed with the brown PETG filament.

 

Lens Family Portrait  

 The "lens Family Portrait" (left to right)  Nikkor-SW 65mm f/4, Super Angulon 90mm f/8, Fujinon-W 150mm f/5.6,  210mm Symmar-S f/5.6 lenses, Nikkor-Q 300mm f/9

In this image all the lenses are mounted on 3D printed PETG lens boards for the Nagaoka camera shown in the rear.

 

Filters

 

I use the Cokin P Series square filters on pretty much all my camera gear, but especially on the View Camera.  Plusses are just a few thin adapter rings allow putting them on a variety of lenses without cluttering the bag with large numbers of different sized round filters.  I found a nice filter wallet on Amazon that stores 10 filters plus the rings.

 

The basic setup requires the following: