Long lenses (>300 mm) on Shen-Hao

[Gem Singer]

Hi Brian,

Our mutual friend Jim, at Midwest Photo Exchange, presently has three previously owned Fuji 400T's. They are all in excellent condition and can be purchased from $600-$700 (approx. price of a new Shen Hao camera body).

I certainly agree that tele lenses are large and heavy. The Fuji 400T, mounted in a Copal 1 shutter, weighs 600gms.The Nikkor 360 tele is slightly heavier. A non-tele lens in the 360mm. focal length, mounted in a Copal 3 shutter, and would weigh even more. It would also require larger, more expensive screw-in filters. From my experience with the Shen Hao, it does not handle these large, heavy lenses very easily.

That is why I attempted to explain to Mike, judging from my experience with the camera, that the longest non-tele lens the Shen Hao is capable of handling comfortably is a compact 300, like the Nikkor 300M, or the Fuji 300C. The longest tele lens lens it can handle with ease is the Fuji 300T (tele), since 190mm. of bellows extension is all that is needed to focus it at infinity. The 300T is a smaller size tele, mounted in a lighter weight Copal 0 shutter. It tips the scale at 415gms. Jim has a few Fuji 300 Tele's on hand, and a previously owned one can be purchased from $550-$600.

[Bob._3483]

My Shen Hao will happily focus my 360 Tele Xenar in Compound down to around 6 feet without mucking about with the front standard (max extension, GG to lens panel, is 305mm).

The lens is held securely and at infinity the front standard extends less than 2 inches past the baseboard so there is no flexing. At max extension there is approx 2 mm of droop [I know how it feels ;-( ].

Cheers,

[Ken Cravillion]

I was going to say that I've used a Nikkor-T* 500mm on my Shen Hao but Danny already beat me to the punch.

In order for it to work I had to tilt the front standard forward and tilt the back to the rear to gain the additional FFD to use the 500mm.

This shot was taken with the 500mm and I was only 12-18 feet way from this rapid:

http://www.kgcphoto.com/Bond%20Falls,%20Fall%202003/bond-reflections-fall-2003.htm