An avalanche of great info and gizmos. Tightly presented. Great job! A model for any KZfaqr.
@MatMarrash4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Ralph! This is the kind of video I re-booted the channel to make, glad to see you all are enjoying them.
@erichartke4331 Жыл бұрын
Great information! I just ordered a 1926 180mm f4.5 Tessar I hope to use on my Crown Graphic with dry plates. This video is just what I needed to watch thank you!
@MatMarrash Жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
@shannonpalmer4 жыл бұрын
Came across a link for this on my Facebook feed this morning, and the timing couldn’t be better! I’ve had an old Bausch and Lomb projector lens sitting in my studio for about a year, waiting for me to think of a way to put it on my monorail camera and get a working shutter. But early this week, an old friend contacted me about his dad selling his old camera gear, and I managed to score several great cameras pretty inexpensively, including a speed graphic in good condition for only $50! Now that I have a focal plane shutter to work with, I just have to get this thing mounted so I can start using it for portraits! This video was extremely helpful, thank you so much!
@MatMarrash4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Shannon! Please share some portraits once you get the setup working, I'm always exciting to see the work folks are making with their LF gear. Cheers!
@bublt4me4 жыл бұрын
Just when I thought I knew most of it, I learned more things here. Thank you so much for taking the time to make these videos!
@MatMarrash4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Martin, glad you got something out of it!
@jimwlouavl2 жыл бұрын
Rewatching this to use an 8x10 Voltas without a shutter. Great portrait at the beginning.
@donyee89702 жыл бұрын
I learned a lot about barrel lenses. I have a couple and I'm jazzed to use them now. Thanks Mat!
@MatMarrash2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Don, have fun with those barrel lenses!
@alignstudio3 жыл бұрын
thanks mat I just got into large format photography and own a sinar f1. I had few lenses in which copal shutter is not firing correctly. I didn't know that sinar makes shutter boards. thanks for sharing your passion and knowledge with us.
@MatMarrash3 жыл бұрын
Welcome to LF Gajendra and happy to help! :)
@Murgoh3 жыл бұрын
I think that big Liesegang one is made for a device called episcope which is a type of projector used to project non transparent documents like pictures, pages of books etc. They worked by illuminating the document from above with an incandescent bulb and projecting the reflected image on a screen so obviously a fast lens was needed to get a reasonably bright image even in a dark room. I saw one in use when I was in the elementary school back in the 70:s, a big box with a huge lens like that one. It had platform in the bottom on which the teacher placed the book and used a lever to raise the platform against a glass in the bottom of the projector. Even with that big lens and lights off in the classroom the projected image was quite dim. I even think it might have been made by Liesegang, at least some of the slide projectors they used were.
@MatMarrash3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for providing some context for such a cool barrel lens!
@67jmadison4 жыл бұрын
Another great video, Mat! I've never shot with a barrel lens before but I've been fascinated by them for years. I cannot imagine loading up one of those giant lenses to my 4x5!
@MatMarrash4 жыл бұрын
Most of the older brass lenses aren't ginormous, but creates quite a bit of variety in a large format kit!
@imuttoo4 жыл бұрын
So much excellent information and guidance Mat! This one is super dense, as per usual! Thanks very much.
@MatMarrash4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Ian! It's a dense one for sure, hopefully it will serve as a good starting point for those wondering about these awesome lenses.
@paolociccone Жыл бұрын
Thank you for another extremely informative and useful video. Keep up the good work.
@MatMarrash Жыл бұрын
Thanks Paolo! :)
@B3D5X4 жыл бұрын
I have one of those red Buhl projector lenses I use for wet plate. I ended up using pipe clamps on either side of the board to mount it (with rubber bands under the clamps). Since there’s no aperture I found a way to fit a variable ND to it to control the light coming in for lenscap shutter work.
@MatMarrash4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the tip Nick! Playing around with Ed's barrel lenses make me want to explore a bit more into projector and aerial lenses.
@philliproe204 Жыл бұрын
The old Packard pneumatic shutter you described is a great very inexpensive shutter for someone who wants to experiment with barrel lenses!
@extremelydave3 жыл бұрын
Good grief you have some knowledge!!! I'll bet you DREAM about large format cameras and that nightmares are BROKEN cameras. A lot of the info you impart here is good across the format spectrum so even though I shoot medium format, I love this vlog. Keep on clickin'!!!!
@MatMarrash3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Dave and there's a bigger nightmare than broken cameras. Big, expensive cameras that [*gasp*] never get used!
@extremelydave3 жыл бұрын
@@MatMarrash Heart be still! How can you utter such a blasphemy!!!!
@chuanlu3 жыл бұрын
Excellent video! The galli shutter is kind of similar to modern focal plane shutter. Really interesting and useful info.
@MatMarrash3 жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
@pedromeza23983 жыл бұрын
Thank you for a very good informative video that contains a lot of useful information; zip ties to hold lenses. I also make my own lens boards from scraps of wood that I easily cut to size and use an adjustable circle hole cutter sized to the lens, that is black electrical tape light sealed then zip tied in place.
@MatMarrash3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Pedro and glad to hear you've got a DIY solution that works!
@olafwDE4 жыл бұрын
Six comments so far, and all avatar pictures are sort of monochrome - this is definitely the place to hang out :D Now, seriously: Tons of info, very well presented with an adorably positive attitude, thank you, again, Mat. It took me a while to learn technical English for photography back in the 90ies, and now I'll gladly add machinery terms to my active vocabulary, because the "super DIY" solutions are the most fun... Greetings from Germany :)
@MatMarrash4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for stopping by and for the comment Olaf! DIY solutions are some of the most inventive and fun to share. Glad you enjoyed the video. :)
@RalphWLundvall4 жыл бұрын
That's my 5th grade picture!
@olafwDE4 жыл бұрын
@@RalphWLundvall Haha, you're a lucky one, for my part, I'd rather put those pictures into a drawer and throw the key away :D
@RalphWLundvall4 жыл бұрын
@@olafwDE I even have my 1954/55 Kindergarten group shot. Mother kept everthing.
@olafwDE4 жыл бұрын
@@RalphWLundvall :-)
@jalakanen4 жыл бұрын
Heidosmat 150mm 2.8 is good and covers 4x5. Also those Liesegang lenses are pretty good. I have 330mm f3.3, wich can used in 8x10.
@MatMarrash4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the tip Jukka! After having my hands on those projector lenses, the G.A.S. is firing up and now I'm looking at more lenses I don't need. >__
@Foxglove9632 жыл бұрын
Not every old barrel lens is soft focus, the centre of a nice Petzval is very sharp indeed. The Packard shutter can be snapped faster, it's how you press that bulb, there's a pin on the shutter which you can pull out to switch mode.
@aag244 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this video. It’s given me just the kind of information I wanted to know to be able to increase my limited lenses for my Sinar P (managed to get one for an extremely good price!).
@MatMarrash4 жыл бұрын
Although I'm super biased, I think Sinar cameras are some of the most easy to adapt a wide variety of lenses.
@aag244 жыл бұрын
Mat Marrash I think you’re right. Though it’s a pain to lug around when taking photos! (Need a nice new carbon fibre tripod as I have an ancient metal tripod that weighs a ton!). Thanks for inspiring videos.
@tplyons54594 жыл бұрын
in 1979 I bought a used 8x10 camera with a former aerial cameras lens, the 305mm Aero-Ektar. It was soooo sharp but the shutter it was in only went to 1/50th sec so it got traded in.
@MatMarrash4 жыл бұрын
Whoa, you had an 8x10 Aero Ektar?! That's awesome! Understandable that 1/50 sec. makes that fast of a lens hard to use. Would LOVE to try one of those lenses eventually. Thanks for the comment!
@tplyons54594 жыл бұрын
@@MatMarrash If memory serves it had a Wollensak shutter, big black thing. I believe that it originally was on a K-24 aerial camera. It had Lithium glass and was radio active. When I went to the USAF Photo school at Lowry AFB in 1964 we had to start with a Deardorf 8x10 camera with a Wollensak triple convertible lens. To get wide angle or telephoto you removed the front or read element. Very sharp lens indeed.
@wetplatedreams3 жыл бұрын
good and informative video. one correction though: not all brass/petzval lenses are pictorial lenses. pictorial lenses were desgined to offer a pictorial/soft look. there were quite a few lenses in that category (Pinkham&Smith lenses, Eidoscope by Hermagis, Objectif d’Artiste by Puyo & Pulligny, Wollensak Verito and some more..). the portrait petzval on the other hand was designed for exact the oposite, it offered a very sharp center at a quite open aperture (somewhere around F3 - F4 usually). leaving the sharp center, the sharpness decreased quite quickly towards the edges for the image circle though (that was the price for its speed). thats why you might think they are not as overall sharp as more modern lenses. as you can see there are brass lenses that might be pictorial, and some that might be petzval lenses. for more info and a dedicated webshop for antique large format lenses you might visit: www.wetplatedreams.com
@MatMarrash3 жыл бұрын
Great information, thanks!
@mamiyapress4 жыл бұрын
Great episode, thank you.
@MatMarrash4 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@mamiyapress4 жыл бұрын
@@MatMarrash I have questions later.
@jvladcliff40833 жыл бұрын
I have 1 lens in barrel, Kodak Commercial Ektar 10" 6.3 on my 5x7 Kodak 33a and for a shutter it's the old lens cap method. :)
@MatMarrash3 жыл бұрын
Commercial Ektar, a classic lens with such a nice look!
@gebruykert3 жыл бұрын
But, no hat? I stop the lens down, fix a large square ND8 filter in front with its filter holder and rubber bands, and hey presto! I have shutter times of multiple seconds which extend even further because of reciprocity. By that time, I start and stop the exposure with my hat. I shot a 32 second exposure of a forest bench with myself in it as a see-through ghost, timed it with the smartphone stopwatch. Great fun!
@matneu273 жыл бұрын
Mentor cameras (LF) allways had guilutine shutters, at least at my field camera with 13x18 cm. Not 100% precise but kind of easy to repair if you had understood the functionality of the bunch of gears. Anyway so I am able to use every little glass desert bowl as lens with the camera ; -)
@MatMarrash3 жыл бұрын
"Glass Desert Bowl" is my new go-to when referring to smaller brass lenses! :D
@Machster104 жыл бұрын
Best bet is to use Slow film, dark filters and a small aperture to slow the shutter speed way down to at least 10 seconds, preferably a minute or two and just pop on and off the lens cap.
@creepyloner19793 жыл бұрын
best bet is to get a speed graphic. :P
@Machster103 жыл бұрын
@@creepyloner1979 Ok. Have alot of LFs but considering getting a speed graphic just for handheld street photography. Do you use it handheld with fast film?
@cecilsharps Жыл бұрын
you mentioned a 500 buck arudino gravity shutter. You can diy a wired version for 80 bucks with an mbit, accessory board and solenoid. I don't even know how to program. The mbit website auto generates the code. I just selected the parameters cycle solenoid when button is pushed. if it works in my application it would work for a gravity shutter.
@Brackcycle4 жыл бұрын
Mat, this is fantastic! Thanks so much! If you were hoping to help me tocontrol my GAS this was not the video to make! LOL. I am looking forward to playing around some old barrels and guillotine shutters. I am taking your advice and thinking about purchases in terms of sheets of film. It is a good deterrent for those impulse buys!
@patrickmurphy66023 жыл бұрын
opaque, 6mm thick plexiglass. will hold a screw, or drill thru for heavy lens. ez to work and strong.
@MatMarrash3 жыл бұрын
Hey Patrick that's pretty cool, I may have to give that a try. Thanks!
@patrickmurphy66023 жыл бұрын
@@MatMarrash check that, 3 mm plex is about the thickness of my lens plates for my Horseman 4x5. (i think, same as a sinar board, yes?
@bublt4me4 жыл бұрын
I use black hot glue go mount my barrel lenses. The B&L 20in f/5.6 its snugly fit into a custom drilled wooden lens board. Easy peasy and reversible too.
@MatMarrash4 жыл бұрын
Hot glue gets another vote! 20" f/5.6?! That's a BIG one!
@carfregno Жыл бұрын
Hi Matt, thanks for this video and all the other information shared here and on your website. How do you prevent lenses with long protruding back colliding with the copal DB shutter?
@nooddles122 жыл бұрын
I think I want and need an aerial lens that you speak of. Bokeh licious
@mc-ec3bu2 жыл бұрын
Large format hair comes in handy.
@MatMarrash2 жыл бұрын
Always!
@williamorford69664 жыл бұрын
Hi Matt interesting show as always.. One comment I would like to make concerning Sinar DB mount lenses. Not all will fit into a normal shutter. I came across a few mainly ‘0’ size eg 150-90mm which had adaptors fitted to the elements so they would only fit the DB mount. These could be nearly impossible to remove so anyone looking to transfer a DB element set please ensure they fit into a shutter before buying. Are you going to make some more outside videos?
@MatMarrash4 жыл бұрын
Hey William thanks for the tip! The world of Sinar DB and newer digital lenses goes deep and is something worth exploring further. More outside videos will definitely be happening. :)
@steverileypictures57243 жыл бұрын
I love your presentation.Where are the archives?
@chrissanchez6949 Жыл бұрын
Thanks Mat, terrific video, thank you! May I ask: whereabouts did you purchase your universal iris clamp? I see them on Ebay but appear to be antiques in often poor condition?
@MatMarrash Жыл бұрын
Hey Chris thanks for the comment! The Iris Clamp shown in the video belongs to a buddy of mine, but my advice would be to keep an eye on the Buy/Sell pages on FB Large Format groups and the Large Format Photography Forum (must be a member for 30 days minimum).
@chrissanchez6949 Жыл бұрын
@@MatMarrash : much appreciated - thank you.
@leoalejandrolive60203 жыл бұрын
Matt are there any lenses you would like to compare.... pentac and aero ektar dallmeyers and cooke soft focus lenses? Perhaps you would like to make a video about those.. I may have some of those lenses you can borrow them and make video about it
@dorothykloss53033 жыл бұрын
Hi Mat! How do you identify the threads of a flange or threads on a brass lens. If you have a screw pitch gauge would that work? And how are the designated? Thanks! Thinking about getting a 14" petzval for my 8x10 D2, but need to know more about flanges.
@MatMarrash3 жыл бұрын
Hey Dorothy! Before breaking out the measurement tools I always try to find data sheets or old marketing materials if possible. Check to see if Antiquecameras has the data you're looking for: www.antiquecameras.net/petzvallens.html Other than that, I'll use a set of calipers to measure the thread pitch as well and diameter of the threads. If you need a custom flange that doubles as a lensboard (for big lenses) check out Luland on eBay: www.ebay.com/itm/Luland-professional-custom-large-format-camera-lens-board-and-accessories/182867265920?hash=item2a93bd0980:g:SygAAOSw1-hfAwWn
@alfredspecht9302 жыл бұрын
A lathe is what you need for the flanges, not a CNC router.
@gordonsmith3310 ай бұрын
I like his hair.
@argentum_on_glass4 жыл бұрын
hi there , i wrote you an email. about the Liesegang lens... do you know the Format coverage of this one? thanks for helping ...farid
@MatMarrash4 жыл бұрын
Hey Farid, I shot you an email reply (it was unsent in my drafts folder). Thanks again for the question and I totally think you should get one!
@argentum_on_glass4 жыл бұрын
I just bought one. And i will for sure mount it on my 11x14" Korona view 😜
@quite1enough4 жыл бұрын
I wonder if it's possible to mount at least some of this lens on mirrorless cameras. I saw a video where's guy mounted mirrorless on the back side of bellows, but considering the flange distance is it even possible to mount this lens on modern cameras without bellows?
@MatMarrash4 жыл бұрын
Hey John thanks for the question. It's definitely possible to mount barrel lenses on digital cameras. Mirrorless cameras have made it so much easier to adapt, really the only hard part is finding one that doesn't have a very long focal length and the materials to mount the lens. I know several photographers that have done this with medium format film and mirrorless cameras. Many of which are using Novoflex and Fotodiox adapters for their camera systems.
@quite1enough4 жыл бұрын
@@MatMarrash thank you for answer!
@charlesadams82234 жыл бұрын
Where can I get that t shirt!?
@MatMarrash4 жыл бұрын
Haha thanks, a friend made it for me. Might have to open up a merch store!
@alfredspecht9302 жыл бұрын
6:10 "This were made to hold a lot of weight" Do you meant this were made NOT to hold a lot of weight? Or how is that in concordance with the sentence that follows?
@SR-hf9kv3 жыл бұрын
What is the thread pitch of that Buhl lens? Cheers
@MatMarrash3 жыл бұрын
Hey and thanks for the question. This is something I don't have an answer to unfortunately, and it doesn't seem like there are datasheets out there for the many lenses they produced. From what I remember in holding that projector lens, the threads were spaced much closer than a pictorial LF lens.
@creepyloner19793 жыл бұрын
if you get one with the original hollow tube at the back still attached you can just cut that down to make a retaining ring.
@johnkasianowicz653610 ай бұрын
Wide aperture is not the primary cause of swirly bokeh.
@shedtime_au Жыл бұрын
Useful data, but dude, that hair is distracting. ROFL