Schneider 150mm f/4.5 Xenar.

k_jupiter · Mar 5, 2012

Dan Fromm said:
gorbas, pmfji.

Schneider sold taking lenses in barrel. Likely applications were cameras with focal plane shutters. Not Schneider, but if you look for them on ebay.de you should find longish post-WW II Tessars in barrel that were made to go on Mentor cameras, which have behind the lens shutters.

Lenses in barrel often trip up buyers and sellers on eBay. I got my 135/5.6 Symmar (convertible, also known as jes' plain Symmar) in barrel from an eBay seller who offered it as an enlarging lens for $32 delivered. Its cells are now in shutter and I still have the barrel.

Schneider has always made a very sharp distinction between their enlarging lenses (Componar, a triplet; Comparon, a tessar; Componon, all plasmats) and the corresponding taking lenses (Radionar, Xenar, plasmat type Symmar).

When I purchased my 150 4.5 Xenar, it came with a factory 39mm screwmount adapter. Meant someone had plans to put this on a Leica. It will be the equal of most 150mm LF lens, perhaps with a bit on the short side of movements, it being a Tessar design. Put it on a Speed or Crown and shoot away. You won't be able to tell the difference between that and a 3x cost lens. I have used mine minimally only because I have a Fuji 150 6.3 that works just fine and it is already in shutter where as I would have to start wearing a hat to use the Xenar. But it does take a mighty fine pitcher.

tim in san jose

Schneider 150mm f/4.5 Xenar.

k_jupiter

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