Schneider Super-Angulon 4.5/55mm PCS (Rollei)

[lekarnito]

Hello everyone,

I just aquired this heavy, bulky monster of a lense and was wondering, how many of these things are even out there, since it’s kind of a special tool I’d say.

However, having shot my first RF with it and tilting and shifting like there’s no tommorow I have to say that this thing is very sharp, the bokeh is lovely and there’s no vignetting as far as I can tell.

Now I was wondering: Does anyone here own, have owned or used this lense? I’m paritcular interested in how many of these have even been produced.

 

[Tyler Longfellow]

I understand that this is a very old post, but I am interested in this lens. I find it hard to find sample photos from this lens. Can anyone provide any?

 

[Anaxagore]

I took that picture of the UT Austin tower some years ago (2019.. time flies) with that lens. Bubble level ro keep the camera (Hy6 with Credo 80) horizontal, and just some upwards shift for the lens. Filter was Kolari hot-mirror 95mm. Lens is very sharp, provides good contrast, and I wish I used it more often despite its weight.

 

[Kodachromeguy]

I took that picture of the UT Austin tower some years ago (2019.. time flies) with that lens. Bubble level ro keep the camera (Hy6 with Credo 80) horizontal, and just some upwards shift for the lens. Filter was Kolari hot-mirror 95mm. Lens is very sharp, provides good contrast, and I wish I used it more often despite its weight.
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Nice picture! It's refreshing to see architecture photos without the converging vertical lines. I'm surprised how many current photographers don't understand the concept.

 

[Anaxagore]

Nice picture! It's refreshing to see architecture photos without the converging vertical lines. I'm surprised how many current photographers don't understand the concept.

Thanks. As I am not an expert of the Scheimpflug rule (nor of other photographic rules for artistic pictures in general…), I have never use the tilt of TS-lenses, and to me the main use of these lenses is for architecture and panoramas. The PCS 55 is for that very appropriate. Another example below with the observatory in Meudon near Paris. I did not correct the slight tilt of the camera from left to right, just assembled 3 pictures obtained with vertical shift + (-1 0 1) side shift (and for such architectural symmetrical beauties, I never apply the rule that the main subject should not be centered..)

 

[ic-racer]

I have a pretty extensive Rollei 6x6 system, including the 6008AF and Hy6, but I never got that lens. I find it easier to use my Horseman VH-R medium format camera instead. That camera has full view camera movements.