Technika - longest lens and closed

[RobC]

What's the longest lens you can use on a technika and close the body with it in place. Could you close it with a Schneider 210 APO symmar in place?
I guess it depends on the make and specific model.

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

I don't think so. My 210mm Symmar convertible doesn't close with the camera.

Unless you're looking at small aperture long lenses (Artar, Ronar, and maybe the Fuji 300C), then generally lenses that close with the camera don't get much longer than 150mm. I suppose my 168mm ser. iii Dagor in a Rapax shutter closes with the camera. I have a Busch Vademecum set mounted in a Copal Press 1 that might close with the camera, but those are small aperture lenses in general.

 

[Len Middleton]

Rob,

I can confirm David's comment on the 210 Symmar copnvertible not fitting.

I can also confirm that the 210 G-Claron will fit in my Tech V.

The two issues are of course the size of the front element and the overall length.

Not a great deal of help, but hopefully some,

Len

 

[RobC]

I like the 210 focal length as it seems to be my most used lens and if I buy a technika I would like it to close with a 210 in place. That would make travelling light with only a single lens, much easier for packing and setup. Not essential but a bonus when walking distance with a small pack.

 

[Eric Rose]

The Rodenstock 210 Geronar might close. It's a great lens. There is one on FeeBay listing number 250220916834

 

[gary mulder]

Schneider 210 APO symmar

No

Apo-Ronar 300mm MC in copal 1 Yes

 

[Ole]

Schneider Xenar 210mm f:6.1 should close without protests.

 

[TimVermont]

Fuji 210 W will close.

 

[gary mulder]

Schneider G-Claron 9/210 will close

 

[RobC]

Thanks guys,

This gives me a few options to look at.
My follow up question is: which of those lenses would likely be a good performer for distant subjects rather than close ups or is there no difference. I have always heard that fuji are good for distant subjects. I guess it's down to the optimum magnification ratio that the lens was designed for but I'm not sure about that.

 

[Eric Rose]

I have made 40 inch prints from the negs I made with the 210 Geronar. Very sharp when stopped down and has a very nice bokeh (geez I hate that word) when shot wide open or near wide open. If you go to my website and navigate over to the Coos Bay stuff most of that was shot with the Geronar.

 

[Chazzy]

You guys are beginning to give me ideas. I can tell you that my big 210mm Heliar in the big compound shutter definitely won't close.

 

[Ole]

In the 5x7" Technika, I could keep a 300mm f:4.5 Xenar in a Compund #5 shutter - IF I removed one of the rails. That trick might work with a 210/4.5 Xenar in a 4x5" Technika, too...

 

[sjperry]

It's really pretty easy to just remove a lens board with the lens in place, and re-install it when ready. Just takes seconds. However you are right that the packing volume would be a little more since you would have the external lens board/ lens. That way any lens can be used. If you have a cam for it, you just leave it in place.

 

[kirkfry]

At 21 cm Zeiss Tessar and a 300 M Nikkor will work. K

 

[Tom Hoskinson]

From my own direct experience, the Fujinon 180 A, the Fujinon 240A and the Fuji 210 W all perform well with distant subjects and in close-ups as well.

The same is true for the Schneider G-Claron 9/210 (and other focal lengths of the G-Claron).

 

[eddym]

It's not the length, it's the diameter. I keep a 270 f9 Apo Artar on my Tech V because it closes, whilst it won't with the 180 f5.6 Symmar S.

 

[Curt]

I thought I was being cleaver and put a lens on my Shen and it close easily, after a while I noticed a small crease in one of the bellows. It was closing easily but was putting a crease from the front rear bellow slide clip. If decide to keep a lens on make sure that the bellows is not being compressed or distorted in any way. Did someone mention turning the lens backward so the larger element, on some, is turned inward?

Curt

 

[Len Middleton]

Curt,

I have a 8x10 Deardorff V8 that I reverse the adapter lensboard on. The adapter lensboard takes Technika type shutters and I can reverse it with a Repro-Claron 355mm lens in a Compur on the Technika board. It will not however reverse mount some of the larger lenses.

Easy way of carrying and protecting the lens.

Works for me,

Len

 

[FredW]

I had a Nikkor 135mm W, in which I could close my Tech IV.