Recent lens purchase

[IanG]

Two Wray Lusrars, both coated, the first (on the right) a 184mm f4.5, designed for the MPP 7"x5" monorail cameras, of which few were made. Launched in 1954 mine is in a pre-WWII Dial set Compur #2 shutter with flash sync. It's on an MPP Monorail lens board almost the same as a Graflex Pacemaker lens board but it won't fit my Super Graphic or Pacemaker Speed Graphic, but it will just fit my Toyo Hafl plate field camera.

On the left is my £30 ($38) 12" f6.3 Wray Lustrar WA lens.

More recently I bought a 1915 6" f4.5 Ross Xpres to fit to a LF SLR sources like the Vague Mecum claim it's Tessar type design. However Tessars are 4 element this is 5 and sharp edge to edge wide open, no Tessar is

I have done a quick test and this Xpres is way better than a Tessar wide open which matches the makers claims.

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Ian

 

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