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Here is a break from all that garish color of the last few daily photograph posts. This another one of my 30 year old 5x7 negatives. I'm still working on scanning these large negatives in two sections and then combining them in Photoshop. I'm getting closer to figuring out how to do it without taking too much time. Of couse I could just buy a new scanner that would scan it in one shot. That will happen but I'm not sure just when and I want to move forward with 5x7. One usually moves up to a larger negative for reasons of the sharpness and increased tonalities that the larger negative offers. I'm interested in moving up for those reasons but mostly for another reason. I'm currently using a Schneider G-Claron 210mm lens on my Burke & James, which currently has a 4x5 back. This is equivalent to a 59mm lens on a 35mm camera. A little long. Must go wide. I also have a 150mm Konica Hexanon lens waiting to be mounted on a lens board. This would be equivalent to a 42mm lens. That would be better. But I need wider. Unortunately, 150mm is about the widest the inexpensive barrel mounted process lenses go. Anything wider gets much more expensive. While this camera will take a 90mm lens (25mm equivalent) a Fujinon 105 SW f8 (30mm equivalent) makes more sense but they are still at least $350 instead of the $50 to $70 for process lenses. But the process lenses have huge coverage. If I use the 150mm lens on 5x7 it comes out to a 30mm equivalent. I can do that for a lot less money. I need to buy a 5x7 piece of ground glass and get the 150 cleaned. The rest is just labor: making a lens board, modifying the packard shutter, repairing the 5x7 back, and cleaning up my 5x7 sheet film holders. The 105mm Fujinon would be equivalent to 21mm on 5x7. Maybe someday.