rik_lowette

thanks for your answers: I'll start first to use a good lens cap(had just purchased one on ebay size 90mm from canon-origin) and see where

it gets me: notify these are the maximum dimensions in width the original linhof case can take(PC612+SA65/6.5+center filterIIIa+cap)!!

I'll be obliged by practical reasons to try it out this way...

thanks again for all your answers, it's always nice to see there are different ways of solving a problem....!!!!

I would like to protect my center filter schneider kreuznach IIIa mounted on

the super-angulon 65/5.6 of my linhof PC612: could anyone help me in advising me

on the dimensions of this filter(86mm?type?.....) I think this could be useful

in the protection of this valuable thing but perhaps will influence image

quality (reflexions?)???anyone who has asked himself the same questions and

found a solution?(I did the same with my xpanII first mounting the center

filter and then the standard uv filter so...)thanks for answering me

thanks to all of you for your usefull comments; i can tell you i got myself a second hand linhof 612 SA65/5.6; i plan to do street work with it, i'm looking forward to try it, since i haven't a center filter (yet), the first pictures will be taken without...hope i can try it on my trip to the castles of the loire aug 21th...thanks again!!!

thanks philippe(are you belgian and flemish?I live in borgloon-ways back in limburg),for your very useful comment, I like the pictures of italy very much,very nice!!what filmtype did you use in italy?do you use a center filter?

thanks for all your answers and experience, I have a lot to think about...

I'd like to get a bit wiser from anyone who used this camera

especially with the 65/5.6 super angulon set-up, hwat the pro's are,

what the con's; why did you buy it for or why did you sell it?is it

really hand-houldable?what about the smaller apertures, are they

useable?is a center filter a must(I do mostly color-work)?is the

viewfinder nice(I carry glasses and therefore I like more a

rangefinder type camera, by the way do you think this camera would be

overlapping the work I do with my XPAN or let me rephrase where do

you position this camera?I love to do street work with 3 different

types of format:6x6 (pentacon six 4/50 or 2.8/180),xpan24x65,and

24x36(leicaR SA 21/4 or 4/180),I enjoy the mix of these formats very

much; could this linhof take a place in "my picture"?or would this be

to much of the same?thanks already for answering me..

i have my xpanII for about 2years and through the results i've seen

of this equipment, a beautiful world was revealed to me;the panoramic view mode lets us see what we see with our eyes in our natural mode;

since i like to document our travelling(mostly city trips in the last years) i've learned (since this is very pleasable in looking to your results in albums afterwards)to use three formats: 6x6 50mm or in 35mm

21mm(leicaR3 superangulon21), my xpanII 45 in panoramic mode(although

i had some fears on this in the beginning on its usefullness in cityphotography) and in 35mm or the angenieux 45-90 2.8(usefull in darker situations), or the elmar 180/4 for light telework; this on kodak portra nc (i feel the 160 better than the 400 for the grain

is a limiting factor in the result since these lenses can give more than the film does);the mix of three formats pleases very much, you learn to think in these formats;i did only colour work until now

and my photographer who bought especially the mask to be able to make my prints does a mighty job: what i see through my viewfinder of my hassy is the thing i get on my prints with an astonishing contrast;

by the way my lightmeter does a perfect job...buying the xpan has revealed the slept-in amateur in me!

boys watch out because not any 72mm filter can be used, worse they could be harmfull for the lens since the frontsurface of the lens could be in contact with the too thick 72mm filter; but I wonder if the leica series 8 in conbination with the filterring 14165 is also

an alternative...anyone familiar with this?

thanks but looking already on ebay for quite a while and didnt find it..

probably it is difficult to find these things, can anyone help me?

addresses?...thanks rik

hi Dmitry,I dont have (yet) a swc but I'm planning to buy one: in order to overcome the problem you mentioned I bought in advance an old voigtlander rangefinder distance meter (testings compared with the distance scale of my x-pan II match perfectly);there are two types,one in feet and one in meters:the one in meters begins at 1 and proceeds to 1.1,1.2,1.3,1.4,1.6,1.8,2,2.5,3,4,5,7,20,infinity; it's really small(length 6cm width 2cm height 1.5cm) and i'm planning to use it together with (already bought in advance) the voigtlander VC

light meter(metering angle comparable to a 90mm lens in 35mmsystems)

of course i could have used the distance meter and spot light meter

(extremely accurate)of my x-pan but in that case i should be obliged to take them both and since there is a center filter mounted and the metering is TTL, diafragma settings will have to be recalculated, so..