One man's Mede is another man's Persian.
Sorry, thats an urban myth (the moving (i.e. plastic deformation) of glass under gravity, not that its amorphous). See: http://www.livescience.com/32119-do-...ndows-sag.html
Time to buy new lenses then before it is gone completely, i need only 3 new lenses and i will accept all the rest with used, sorry can't resist.
Many thanks to Arne for pointing us to the article on Photoscala.de
The bad news for all Rodenstock "LF film lenses" aficionados like me, will probably not not be recorded in History, deeply hidden behind Nelson Mandela's death & memorial celebrations.
To the best of my knowledge, as announced here by Bob S. some time ago, the "film" apo grandagon series 35 / 45 / 55 have already been discontinued.
And since "more discontinuations are to be announced soon" we can be grateful to Rodenstock to "amortize" the bad news in 2 announcements.
In South Africa, people have been prepared 5 months ago to the death of the famous charismatic leader and Nobel Price laureate.
Now we are prepared fo the definite demise of one of the best LF lens product line of the XX-st century.
Hence I can anticipate the title of Arne's future historical article, after LF lenses made by CZJ and CZ Oberkochen: "Rodenstock LF lenses".
Taking into account that CZ Oberkochen LF lenses were discontinued about 20 years ago, we are ready to wait until Arne publishes an outstanding, comprehensive and authoritative article on Rodenstock LF lenses (nothing serious can be done in a hurry )
Another nice detail: Rodenstock obviously now really wants to clear the stock: New Apo-Sironar N lenses (discontinued years ago) are now for sale in a german webshop, to which the lenses were forwarded by Rodenstock.
I am not sure, but I assume he means Christoph Greiner: http://www.greiner-photo.com/en/rodenstock-analog.html
Currently, he lists new 210, 240, 300, and 360mm Apo-Sironar N lenses (note there are also used lenses on that web page, and the prices include 19%VAT).
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