Originally posted by knumbnutz Hi Wheatfield,
Never used the 45 ?? or i take it you meant to say 55 ?
Hard to find 45's, there seems to be a lot of 55mm. Hard to find images from either lens. I take it the 45 is rectalinear ?
Cheers
Neil
Nope, I meant the 45.
The 45 is rectilinear and is a very good lens indeed. When I was buying my 6x7 system, I decided that there just wasn't going to be enough of a FOV difference between the 45mm and 55mm lenses to concern myself with both, but that if I ran into something that required wider than the 55, I would want the 45.
OTOH, one can usually take a few steps forwards....
That Antique and Classic camera website isn't testing anything, he's just gleaned a bunch of rhetoric off the web and is passing it on as facts.
Nothing there to pay much attention to.
I've taken negs shot with the 6x7 up to as big as 40x60 inches with no problems, and routinely made prints up to 16x20 from all my lenses with no quality concerns.
The urge to measurbate and get the best IQ is something that the newbies who've never handled a medium format camera, but who have lots of experience with digital files at 200% do to try to justify their sad existence.
It's not something that people who shoot medium format or larger film need to concern themselves with.