Shopping for a bit of photo history

I'm on the lookout for a pair of 8" Petzval portrait lenses. If you know of a source for these please send me a message. These lenses were made starting in 1840. They are characterized by extremely sharp center of focus with a quick falloff to a swirly bokeh. My plan is to try to adapt them to fit on the Gowlandflex, so if you have any experience with this also please let me know.

-Michael

Plainview - Use Macs, you need this.

I was at an AIGA SF studio tour at The Barbarian Group last night. More about that in another post. They showed off their work using a browser they created - just because they needed it for their own presentations. Now they are giving it away for free. If you use a Mac and do any kind of presentation you need Plainview. It's just a browser but it hides all the controls and headers so your HTML or Flash preso takes up the whole screen. So, photographers, designers, sales peeps ... throw away Power Point and use your own website in your presentation. You can download it here: Plainview dowload. Of course if you are on a PC and you use Firefox just hit F11.