Found Schneider IVa Center Filter

[Bish0v]

Currently looking to buy a Schneider IVa center filter, I've searched fairly extensively with no avail. Anyone here looking to convert theirs to cash?

Thanks

 

[xkaes]

Have you checked out alternative CND filters for your lens?

http://www.subclub.org/fujinon/center5.htm

 

[Bish0v]

Have you checked out alternative CND filters for your lens?

http://www.subclub.org/fujinon/center5.htm

Ive read that pdf, ive found it increasingly even more difficult to find other center filters besides the Schneider ones. I have the Super Angulon 90mm XL f/5.6, I could go for a filter that has a smaller thread than 95mm, but I don't feel like loosing lens coverage. And simply put the IVa was designed for set 90mm lens, so in a perfect world its the one im looking for. I stand to be corrected if people have had success with other center filters on the SA 90mm XL.

As an additional note I have seen that Linhof Studio in the UK offers the older 82mm Schneider IV center filter as an alternative to the IVa. Would be interested if people have used a CF with a smaller filter thread than their lens with success.

 

[xkaes]

It's great if you have to time to wait -- and eventually find one, but in the meantime you could consider a temporary solution. Then when you find what you want, you can sell the "temporary" one. That's basically what I did. They don't lose value at all.

The IV might work as a temporary or as a permanent alternative -- I don't know, but I would imagine that much depends on the film format you are using. If you don't use the full IC of the lens, a smaller CND filter probably will work fine. Easy enough to test.

I had the opposite problem. I had to go to a larger CND filter.

 

[Ian Grant]

You need to search quite regularly, like @xkaes I ended up with 2 slightly larger CND filters. I found 2 Hoya filters on eBay listed as used, in fact they were new old stock from a camera store, and just under £100 for the pair. Part of the problem is you need such a large filter, I'm not sure other companies made them as large as 95mm.

Ian

 

[xkaes]

I'm not sure other companies made them as large as 95mm.

Ian

A few did. Heliopan went all the way up to 127mm! But try finding one. Rodenstock made some big ones too.


http://www.subclub.org/fujinon/center5.htm