The
Shneider Super Angulon
Wideformat
enlargements look so much better if a professional lens
was used for the original photo. The quality of the seamless
panorama photographs result from using a Schneider-Kreuznach
lens on a 4x5 inch format camera.
When
you enlarge your photographs to the sizes possible with the
new Wideformat printers, it helps to start out with a good
lens.
Photos
taken with a Tamron, Sigma, or Vivitar lens are okay for family
snapshots and family vacation albums, but are inadequate for
enlargement. I have seen photos from these cheap lenses that
could not even survive enlargement to 8x10 without fuzing
out.
To
get the best Wideformat photo, a Schneider or Rodenstock lens
is essential. It also helps to use large format, at least
4x5.
A
scan of an 8x10 chrome, however, really produces an impressive
Wideformat photo.
Schneider
lenses are available for 4x5, 5x7, and 8x10 formats. Schneider
lenses are also now available for medium format (6x6 cm) for
Rollei cameras.
All
the wide format photos pictured on FLAAR web sites were taken
with a Leitz or Nikon lens (if 35mm), with a Zeiss lens (if
medium format; no Schneider lenses were available for the
Hasselblad years ago), and with Schneider or Rodenstock lens
if large format.
We
use 35mm only because most lecture venues have projectors
only for 35mm slides. Otherwise medium format is our minimum
size. When we moved up to digital photography, we selected
a Better Light special adaptation of a Dicomed Field Pro,
to keep with large format. It is recommended to use the new
digital lenses. Both Schneider and Rodenstock make special
lenses for use with large format digital scanning backs.
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All reports by Dr. Nicholas Hellmuth
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UPDATED:
August 02/2001
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