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UER Forum > Private Boards Index > Medium and Large Format Photography > 8x10 lens on a 5x7 camera? (Viewed 9184 times)

yokes Location: Toronto Gender: Male Total Likes: 596 likes I aim to misbehave \| \| \| \|	8x10 lens on a 5x7 camera? < on 1/4/2008 1:41 PM > \| Reply with Quote

	I'm in the process of building a large format scanner camera over the winter and have now assembled the materials I'm using. Knowing pretty much nothing about large format photography, are there any limitations in using an 8x10 lens in a 5x7 camera?
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mortimer Location: teronno Gender: Neither Total Likes: 3 likes \| \| \|	Re: 8x10 lens on a 5x7 camera? < Reply # 1 on 1/4/2008 3:08 PM > \| Reply with Quote

	As far as I know, the only limitations (other than cost) would be in finding wide angle lenses, or even normal length lenses, as you'd have to have a wide angle 8x10 lens to cover the normal range on a 5x7. Is there a particular lens you're looking at? Is it a process lens, or is there a shutter? And is this a scanner camera meaning you're using the guts of a flatbed scanner?
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yokes Location: Toronto Gender: Male Total Likes: 596 likes I aim to misbehave \| \| \| \|	Re: 8x10 lens on a 5x7 camera? < Reply # 2 on 1/4/2008 4:17 PM > \| Reply with Quote

	There is no shutter, and none is needed. I don't recall what, if any, brand the lens is. I'm using more than the guts.. I'm basically going to attach a hacked flatbed to the back of the rig (oversimplification) to capture the image.
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yokes Location: Toronto Gender: Male Total Likes: 596 likes I aim to misbehave \| \| \| \|	Re: 8x10 lens on a 5x7 camera? < Reply # 3 on 1/4/2008 4:21 PM > \| Reply with Quote

	In checking again, it seems that it is a 5x7 lens... so never mind. The description refers to it as a "Bausch and Lomb 8 Inch f4.8" which I mis-rembemered as being a lens for an 8x10 camera. The additional info on it says it covers a 5x7 area.
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mortimer Location: teronno Gender: Neither Total Likes: 3 likes \| \| \|	Re: 8x10 lens on a 5x7 camera? < Reply # 4 on 1/4/2008 8:27 PM > \| Reply with Quote

	Fun stuff. 8" should be about a 'normal' lens for 5x7. Somewhere I remember seeing photos online from such a contraption, I recall very interesting results when the subject moved. So, a 5x7 sized beast, tethered to a computer and power source, that takes 5 minutes to create a 5 megapixel image...hello, 1991. I take it this will be your camera of choice for high-risk locations?
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yokes Location: Toronto Gender: Male Total Likes: 596 likes I aim to misbehave \| \| \| \|	Re: 8x10 lens on a 5x7 camera? < Reply # 5 on 1/4/2008 8:59 PM > \| Reply with Quote

	5"x7" @ 1200dpi optical resolution = 5 megapixel how exactly? It will certainly be a beast to work with, and won't be a good walking about camera. I'm making it more to see if I can make one.
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seany Location: Santa Clara, California, USA Gender: Male Total Likes: 17 likes \| \| \| \| \| \|	Re: 8x10 lens on a 5x7 camera? < Reply # 6 on 1/17/2008 9:07 PM > \| Reply with Quote

	wouldn't it be closer to 50mp? are you using a USB powered scanner?

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	If you get this working you have to take a picture of it so i can see it. PLEASE!
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Posted by seany
wouldn't it be closer to 50mp? are you using a USB powered scanner?

Exactly... I think 47mp.

The scanner is a USB powered Canoscan LiDE 30 for now.

Ryan: No problem

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atomx Location: Brighton, ON Gender: Male Total Likes: 0 likes \| \| \|	Re: 8x10 lens on a 5x7 camera? < Reply # 9 on 2/21/2008 7:27 PM > \| Reply with Quote

	Where did you get your lens from? I've been looking for one for a while. And, any pictures of your build?
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Posted by atomx
Where did you get your lens from? I've been looking for one for a while.

And, any pictures of your build?

I haven't gotten around to starting the frankensteining yet. I just got the lens on eBay.

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atomx Location: Brighton, ON Gender: Male Total Likes: 0 likes \| \| \|	Re: 8x10 lens on a 5x7 camera? < Reply # 11 on 2/21/2008 8:52 PM > \| Reply with Quote

	What lens?
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yokes Location: Toronto Gender: Male Total Likes: 596 likes I aim to misbehave \| \| \| \|	Re: 8x10 lens on a 5x7 camera? < Reply # 12 on 2/21/2008 8:55 PM > \| Reply with Quote

	Bausch and Lomb 8 Inch f4.8 apparently. Looks old.
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Posted by yokes
Bausch and Lomb 8 Inch f4.8 apparently. Looks old.

What happened with this beast camera?

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yokes Location: Toronto Gender: Male Total Likes: 596 likes I aim to misbehave \| \| \| \|	Re: 8x10 lens on a 5x7 camera? < Reply # 14 on 6/11/2008 11:07 PM > \| Reply with Quote

	Suffered from my lack of motivation. Still have the components.. just need to find time/enthusiasm to get crackin on it.
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Posted by yokes
Suffered from my lack of motivation. Still have the components.. just need to find time/enthusiasm to get crackin on it.

Did you make it? I'm thinking of getting a lens since I acquired some 8x10 film and want to try a pinhole, and something else.......

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yokes Location: Toronto Gender: Male Total Likes: 596 likes I aim to misbehave \| \| \| \|	Re: 8x10 lens on a 5x7 camera? < Reply # 16 on 9/5/2008 6:10 PM > \| Reply with Quote

	Not yet
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Posted by yokes
Not yet

well get busy!!
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yokes Location: Toronto Gender: Male Total Likes: 596 likes I aim to misbehave \| \| \| \|	Re: 8x10 lens on a 5x7 camera? < Reply # 18 on 11/29/2009 2:27 PM > \| Reply with Quote

	Now that I have actual large format gear, the liklihood of this ever being built has dropped.
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Quarantine Location: Denver Gender: Female Total Likes: 76 likes retired former old-school UE'er \| \|	Re: 8x10 lens on a 5x7 camera? < Reply # 19 on 12/4/2009 1:48 AM > \| Reply with Quote

	Bah! Excuses. Mount that 8" lens on your 4x5 Speed Graphic and you've got a nice telephoto, tho. Good for portraits. [last edit 12/4/2009 1:48 AM by Quarantine - edited 1 times]

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