Subject: Newbie question: lenses
From: "MikeWhy"
Date: 1/31/2004 12:11 AM Mountain Standard Time
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Hi. I'm brand new to LF, and just bought my first camera and lens. I have a
question about the lens, a Schneider Angulon 90mm f/6.8. I know it's old;
the serial number is is mid 5 million, making it a two years my senior. The
trouble is, I can't seem to find any information about it on the web. What I
did find conflicted with everything else. I'm looking for just the angle of
coverage and coverage at infinity focus. It was mere curiosity before; now
that I have it in my hands, I'm concerned. I have loupes with more glass
than this lens has; it's not at all what I was expecting. Is this reasonable
for a 4x5 wide angle lens? Will I get reasonable coverage and movement on
4x5? The camera hasn't arrived yet, so I'll have to wait a few more days to
find out. In the meantime, you can help drive me crazy with more rumors and
suppositions. What can you tell me about this lens I bought?

Thanks.
Mike.


As you know this is an older lens and IMHO not a very good one.It has an image
circle of 154mm at f16. In reality it may be slightly more but not much. The
image at the edges of the image circle is also not very sharp and there is not
much you can do about this problem.The Super Angulon is a newer and much better
version of the same lens.

If you are going to be buying used lenses you might want to go back through
issues of View Camera magazine. Over the years we've run articles on most of
the lenses you will find out there.

If you are moving up and want to find lenses that are the equivilent focal
lengths to what you may have used in smaller formats there is a lens chart on
our web site in the Free Articles section.

www.viewcamera.com

Go to the Free Articles section in the black menu bar. There are several
articles that might be helpful to you.

steve simmons