Posted by Professor Lowe, Ambrotypist on July 23, 2000 at 15:23:00:
In Reply to: Lens scratches on Ektar 127mm lens posted by Mike Canavan on July 23, 2000 at 12:34:12:
Your lens may still work well even though it is scratched. Shoot some film and see what happens.
I use several old lenses, all of which are scratched. My favorite lens, a ca. 1858 Voightlander & Sohn No. 2, has a 1/8" long scratch across the rear element. I use this lens to shoot images on wet collodion, which is a high resolution medium. Nevertheless, this old lens still produces very sharp images.
Excellent site you gentlemen have here. I recently bought an army surplus Speed Graphic, which I hope to restore.