Intrepid interactive lens explorer

[lharby]

This is rad

The Large Format Lens Explorer

Second-hand large format lenses come described in numbers that mean very little until you can see them. This tool turns those numbers into visuals. Pick any of the lenses below and find out how much film it covers, whether that stretches to 5×7 or 8×10, how far you can push your movements, how...

intrepidcamera.co.uk

 

[David M]

That’s an excellent piece of work.
Thank you and thank you to Intrepid, too.

 

[HowLarge]

It’s very nice - I like that you can specify a format and it will only list the lenses that cover , they mention the sources which are the tables compiled over the years by various folks.

 

[Francis R]

Thank you so much, that's an excellent tool!

 

[Alan Clark]

Many thanks. Very useful.

 

[Dave_P]

Fair play to them this is a decent resource. Odd that it doesn't seem to have any of the original (non-Super) Angulons listed though.

 

[HowLarge]

These are the sources , they do not have the older lenses

https://largeformatphotography.info/lenses/

Intrepid have a request to add a lens , there are lens catalog scans littered all over the
web - camera quest being very good , but the data is not so easy to add from scans
give it time , I used to use a great community tool - spocalc for cycle wheel spoke lengths it was great

 

[Soulstar89]

Cheers for this.

 

[Ian Grant]

A good resource is the Pacific Rim Camera Reference Library, Mike is constantly adding more.

In some cases there are a number of variations of a lens, even of the same focal length. For instance the Carl Zeiss Jena 165mm Tessar was made with a variety of maximum apertures:- f6.3, f5.3. f4.5, f3.5, and f2.7. You get a similar spread with the T.T.&H Cooke Triplet design.

Resources like the annual BJP Almanacs are very useful for older lens data. I have quite a large collection and will often chip in with info from them.

Ian

 

[Nas]

I do like my Carl Zeiss Jena 165mm Tessar f2.7 lens. It's nice for portraits.