Bausch & Lomb Wide Angle Lens 88mm f/6.8 in Graphex
"The Lens Collectors Vade Mecum of Wilkinson and Glanfield has a very brief listing of Bausch and Lomb wide-angles, describing them as 4-glass Gauss types of 88 degrees coverage. The more usual term would be a double-Gauss design. This used to a popular wide-angle design for LF lenses -- probably the most famous version was the Kodak Wide Field Ektars. 88 degrees converts to a circle of coverage of 170 mm, which covers 4x5 with a bit of margin. Kodak seems to have been more conservative, suggesting their 100 mm version (a longer focal length that would have more coverage diameter) for use with 4x5 only without using swings." - Michael Briggs http://home.earthlink.net/~michaelbriggs/
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