For Sale Schneider 150mm f/5.6 Componon-S lens for sale

Terrence Brennan · Feb 22, 2023

I have a Schneider 150mm f/5.6 Componon-S lens for sale. The lens is clean, with no scratches, fungus or haze. It comes with both lens caps and a generic retaining ring.

Aperture movement is smooth. There is one minor defect to be noted: the diaphram click stops do not funtion. The diaphram stll opens and closes smoothly, but does not "click" at each f/stop and half-f/stop.

I am asking $50.00, plus actual shipping cost by your choice of carrier, from Ottawa, Ontario; payment by PayPal is preferred.

Mick Fagan · Feb 22, 2023

Terrence Brennan said:
Aperture movement is smooth. There is one minor defect to be noted: the diaphram click stops do not funtion. The diaphram stll opens and closes smoothly, but does not "click" at each f/stop and half-f/stop.

Are you really sure about that?

Below the word Componon, and directly under the letters "onon" there is a sliding lever, which in the case of your lens in that picture has been slid over to make clickless/seamless aperture settings.

If you slide the switch to the extreme right, I feel pretty sure that you will once again have click stops.

I've been using one of these for about 30 years, at least.

Alan Edward Klein · Feb 23, 2023

Mick Is that normal for LF lenses? None of mine (Nikkor, Schneider, and Fuji) seem to have click stops. I wish they did.

RolleiCO · Feb 23, 2023

I believe this is intended as an enlarger lens. I have two Componon-S enlarger lenses and one has this feature.

gphoto120 · Feb 23, 2023

I agree with Mick…my apo componon has the same feature…either seamless or with clicks as you change apertures when sliding the lever..

Mick Fagan · Feb 23, 2023

Alan Edward Klein said:
Mick Is that normal for LF lenses? None of mine (Nikkor, Schneider, and Fuji) seem to have click stops. I wish they did.

Alan, it is an enlarger lens and having click stops does help when using an enlarger as one reaches up and clicks through however many stops from wide open to reach your working aperture.

Seamless aperture settings on an enlarger lens is an extremely helpful feature when using a light meter under the enlarger for correct illumination settings as you move the enlarger head up or down.

While at times I have thought having click stops in LF lenses would be good, once I started working with lenses that were calibrated and marked with a scratch (for wont of a better description) I realised having click stops was a possible pain with LF photography. The calibrated lenses were marked at the actual correct f/stop and marked in calibrated 1/3 stops to the next stop, worked brilliantly.

Alan Edward Klein · Feb 23, 2023

Mick Fagan said:
Alan, it is an enlarger lens and having click stops does help when using an enlarger as one reaches up and clicks through however many stops from wide open to reach your working aperture.

Seamless aperture settings on an enlarger lens is an extremely helpful feature when using a light meter under the enlarger for correct illumination settings as you move the enlarger head up or down.

While at times I have thought having click stops in LF lenses would be good, once I started working with lenses that were calibrated and marked with a scratch (for wont of a better description) I realised having click stops was a possible pain with LF photography. The calibrated lenses were marked at the actual correct f/stop and marked in calibrated 1/3 stops to the next stop, worked brilliantly.

My Mamiya RB67 medium format lenses have half stop clicks which is handy for bracketing.

Doug Richardson · Feb 24, 2023

PM'd.

mrosenlof · Feb 24, 2023

I kind of guess Mr. Richardson will buy it, but I have also sent a PM.

For Sale Schneider 150mm f/5.6 Componon-S lens for sale

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