Rare lens? Fujinon SW 300mm f/9

[StoneNYC]

Stone, Neil never jokes. He's a sober serious conscientious person.

We usually call lenses that cover 100 degrees wide angle lenses regardless of the format they're used on.

If the second part is true, then I've learned something new and I humbly withdraw my cocky sounding response.

[drew.saunders]

Server not found, again and again.
Not found from Unix nslookup either.

Dan, I wonder if you have the direct address in a cache or hosts. file

It would appear that the ISP hosting www.subclub.org recently changed, and that the previous ISP had a very long TTL for claiming "ownership" of that domain, so some people's DNS servers will be holding onto outdated information until their TTL expires and they try again.

Here's a way to see the name servers:

% dig +noall +answer -t ns subclub.org
subclub.org. 21474 IN NS ns1.meganameservers.com.
subclub.org. 21474 IN NS ns2.meganameservers.com.
subclub.org. 21474 IN NS ns3.meganameservers.com.

and check one:

% dig +noall +answer -t A www.subclub.org @ns1.meganameservers.com
www.subclub.org. 86400 IN A 69.49.101.19

86,400 seconds is a 24 hour TTL, which is quite long. In short, it should start coming back within a day or so for most people. If you use google's name servers, or have Comcast (which I have at home), you should be set.

[Sal Santamaura]

...We usually call lenses that cover 100 degrees wide angle lenses regardless of the format they're used on.

You might, but I don't. I reserve the term "wide angle" for small format lenses that take in, well, a wide angle on their associated cameras.

I usually call LF lenses with large image circles (for their focal lengths) "wide field."

[StoneNYC]

You might, but I don't. I reserve the term "wide angle" for small format lenses that take in, well, a wide angle on their associated cameras.

I usually call LF lenses with large image circles (for their focal lengths) "wide field."

You must be a kodak lens man

[Alan Gales]

I've got a Caltar HR 300mm f/5.6 lens. I researched it and found that the HR stands for Horseman. Topcon made lenses for Horseman so it was made by Topcon. The 300 is said to be pretty rare. Now all I have to do is find someone who thinks all things rare are worth a lot of money to sell it to.

[Sal Santamaura]

You must be a kodak lens man

Nope. The only Kodak lens I've ever owned was whatever one they put on my 127 Brownie Starmite in the early 1960s.

[StoneNYC]

Nope. The only Kodak lens I've ever owned was whatever one they put on my 127 Brownie Starmite in the early 1960s.

I associate "wide field" with "wide field ektar" lens'

Anyway, glad we sorted all the labeling out... Lol