No need! Spend the money on film, and to travel.Originally Posted by ioingjorbor
No need! Spend the money on film, and to travel.
The 150mm Nikkor is an appropriate upgrade if you need more image circle. It is, of course, big and expensive.
Why, is there something wrong with it? You could take a photography workshop with the money. There's nothing switching your lens is going to do for your photography. L
Yeah, I’m quite happy with my Symmar-S, but I’ve never saw a work with another lens, so maybe I’m loosing something that I don’t know haha.
Also I forgot to say that showing the system to a couple a few weeks ago, accidentally I dropped the lens. I still don’t know if some element or something is not working correctly, or if it’s just aesthetic (I don’t use filters)
I’ll post a picture
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If it were me and I had the itch to try another lens, I'd get one in a slightly different focal length. For example, a 180 would give you a slightly tighter angle of view plus a bigger image circle, whereas a 135 would give you a bit wider angle. And if you're on a limited budget, there are plenty of Fujinon plasmats out there barely used at tempting prices; they're every bit as good as the latest German lenses. One reason Schneider had to redesign their own lenses was due to the restriction the EU
imposed on the mfg of glass types based on toxic or radioactive elements.
Spend the money on film, printing, high end scanning - all of those will make a bigger difference than changing the lens.
Probably the lens was not damaged, you also have some finger prints on it...
Well, LF gear should be handled with care, in general it's robust Pro gear, but you should get parctice with it, those kinds of things should not happen to you.
Get practice with your present gear and this will tell you when you have to upgrade your glass or not. If you don't know if you have to upgrade your glass (owning that excellent lens) this is because you still don't have a solid criterion to know what you should purchase.
Rather upgrading your 150mm you would better get a 210 for portraits or a 90 for landscapes, but before that I'd get a solid learning with that excellent 150, that's also a very good focal to start with.
Why? If you aren’t happy with its performance then there is likely something else to consider improving.
Oh, sorry. I just saw the damage from the drop. That wouldn’t bother me if the pictures still look good. I’d worry about those fingerprints more.
if it was me i'd drop ALL my lenses so i had a matching set
and then use that to advertise the photographs that you sell
" perfectly damaged lenses that yield these special images"
it'll be like dizzie gillespie's trumpet.
Last edited by jnantz; 13-Oct-2018 at 20:06.
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