[Largeformat] Wollansak softness ?

["Ken Hough" <k4sb@niia.net>]

From: "Ken Hough" <k4sb@niia.net>


My therory is this:
Alot of us users have experienced the low contrast Wollansak lenses. Try looking through 
one of these lenses at a high intensity light.  See the haze ? Both on the  front surface of the 
glass and between the elements in the cement. I can't tell you how many I've recemented 
only to turn these junkers into a great lens. Wollansak used a very strange themo setting 
cement that was great for 10 years and then turns cloudy.  I bought a brand new sealed in 
the box 12 in. convertable once.  I waited a few months to cut the tape.   When I did open it 
up, the lens was opaque with haze.. This happened to me again 3 years later. Both lenses are 
recemented and shoot fine. With not a single cleaning mark on either !!
Ken
******Ken Hough Photographic Repair******
  Specializing in Deardorff Refinishing
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