Gear Acquiring Syndrome - notes about not buying a Schneider 150mm APO aspherical large format lens

<p>Lens for sale for $200... perfect condition...<br /> GASGASGAS<br /> Four hours ago the photoshop opened, still didn't go buy this lens...<br /> GASGASGAS<br /> Three more hours until the shop closes...<br /> GASGASGAS<br /> I'm doing it minute by minute, I'm holding out...<br /> GASGASGAS<br /> I mailed them yesterday that I wouldn't buy the lens...<br /> GASGASGAS<br /> Wish there was a group Lensaholics Anonymous around here...<br /> GASGASGAS<br /> I see nothing but pink lenses with snouts and big teeth and they want to devour me...<br /> GASGASGAS<br /> AAAArrrggghhhh!!!!!!</p>

<p>Dirk.</p>

<p>It's cheaper than drinking. And the hangover doesn't last as long.<br>

<br />Rick H.</p>

<p>Schneider doesn't make a 150mm apo aspherical large format lens. </p>

<p>@Ed: seems to me that they do either have an aspherical or an APO - can't seem to find one that has both though.<br /> @Dirk: there's always tomorrow...</p>

<p>Hi!</p>

<p>I do remember it was an APO, but now I'm not sure anymore if it said "aspherical". It was multicoated.<br>

Sorry.</p>

<p>Dirk. </p>

 

<p>You obviously will have to go back for another look then ;-)</p>

Hold strong. Go shoot something and enjoy what you have. And they do/did have an

Apo in 150mm. I have its big brother, 210 Apo, and its little cousin, the 150mm

Claron G.

<p>I am a huge fan of Mamiya TLRs so when I walked past a window the other day sporting a mint C3 (even still had the lens cap) I had to struggle to resist the urge to buy. I am not a collector or a gear-head but somehow I still manage to have accumulated 34 cameras and two enlargers .... plus studio lights, filters, etc. etc.</p>

<p>My weakness is pre-Civil war lenses. Fortunately, most of these don't fit on my Chamonix very well.</p>

<p>Kent in SD</p>

<p>Never mind. The nostalgic feeling lately, last 15 years, get me to buy back my beloved Nikon FA with the MD-15. Then the first Nikon F I used to have, with prism only. No light-meter on that time, I learned to estimate the exposure, after a couple of rolls of film. Then, my beloved 135/2 and 105/1.4 AI-S. Then the F2, F3 and so on. Actually, I bought back all my previous cameras and lenses I used to own, and more. Now, I have all the models I have ever own and more, and lenses of the old era, AI-S and non AI's. So what? As some of you stated all ready, still cheeper then drinking and smoking, and enjoying those mechanical marvels greatly, sometime go out and shoot a couple of B&W or Velvia, excitedly waiting to be developed and see them on the light table. It is a weakness? It is not. Still much better then siting with other old asses in a shopping plazas and gossiping, telling stories of my arthritis, hemorrhoids , or better, they grand children's, (whom mostly ignoring them), etc., and sipping cold coffee.<br>

Happy New Year.</p>