shek_chuen_ng Posted October 17, 2003 Share Posted October 17, 2003 Recently I got this lens from e-Bay. I've visited Schneider's web page however they only provided limited information. Does anyone has more information, such as its performances? Especially compare with the farmous Biogon 53 f4.5. Thank you for enlighten me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin_czermak Posted October 21, 2003 Share Posted October 21, 2003 hi, i'm sorry that i can't help you but some month ago i searched about the same infos like you....and could'nt find any help. the reason is because i have the same lens ant want to sell it now. my version is one of the last (and really rare) with the front barrel in black. the earlier models had a chrome front barrel. now my question: what model is yours and how much did you pay? did it include a lensboard and what kind of shutter? excuse my bad english, but i'm not so familiar with it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darryl_baird1 Posted October 21, 2003 Share Posted October 21, 2003 I owned one of these for many years, a very good lens, but not a great lens. It had some edge softness that I could notice, especially shooting architecture. These were mostly for smaller Linhof Technika (and other Linhof) cameras. Is your lens in a Linhof shutter? It's no Biogon, but it is fast and decently sharp. I think I got around $400 for the lens, but that was a couple of years ago... had to have an Apo-Grandagon. Darryl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shek_chuen_ng Posted October 26, 2003 Author Share Posted October 26, 2003 Martin, I got the old Linhof Selected version for about US$450. I would like to know your comments about the lens. Thanks. SC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin_czermak Posted October 27, 2003 Share Posted October 27, 2003 Shek, I purchased this lens two years ago at a local LF-dealer in Vienna, Austria for 1100$. I was (...and still be) a newbie in LF photography and the main reason was that i owned at this time only an old Angulon 6,8/65 with a too small picture angle. The second reason was the max. aperture 4. After i shot a lot of rollfilms, i saw that 95° picture angle is not enough for architectural photography, the sharpness is not crispy enough - especially in the edges and the movements of this lens are to small. Vignetting is only at f4 very hogh, but not an issue because nobody takes his pictures with the max. aperture. So i changed to a Super Angulon XL 5,6/58, a lens not to compare with the SA 53/4. So the lens is for sale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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