Nikon to quit LF lenses

[Ted Harris]

Bruce the 550 XXL and 1100 XXL are new Schneider lenses. Michael Mutmansky just reviewed the 1100 in View Camera.

[Bruce Watson]

Oh. Duh. I knew that.

Guess this cold is doing more to me than I thought! I wondered why I was surfing the 'net instead of making another film run in the darkroom like I should be doing. A case of mind fog would explain it. Thanks for that correction. Think I'll go read some fiction since I'm clearly in a fiction sort of mood ;-)

[Mark Sampson]

I'm sad to see them go. I have four of their LF lenses and I've always thought it was money well spent. Wait, counting enlarging lenses, seven... They sure didn't ever spend any money trying to sell them though. Luckily, if I don't drop any of them, they'll still last the rest of my life. But now I guess I'll really have to bite the financial bullet if I want a 500/11T...

[Ben Calwell]

I'll be treasuring my Nikkor 90mm F8.

[Daniel Geiger]

I used to shoot with OM, then OM discontinued. Switched for SLR to Contax a couple of years ago. Contax ceased to exist. Beat my head whether I should have gone the solid Nikon route. Well, I have the answer now. Bought an Arca 4x5; am I cursing Arca as well? At least I got the Nikor-T 360/500/720.

[neil poulsen]

I'm curious, what's going on with Arca? The last I heard, they were doing well with their medium format 2x3.

[Spencer Cliss]

Just the other day I phoned (in Swiss German :-) with Martin Vogt, the de facto boss of Arca. As usual, I asked him when they will have a web site. And just as usual, I got the reply that everyone was too busy making product to fulfil high demand and that a website wasn't high priority. So it seems Arca are doing fine, although I don't know which products they sell most.

[Tom Westbrook]

> that a website wasn't high priority.

I would be nice, though, if they could at least find the time to put out a new catalog (in PDF preferably) for the new and updated products.

[tim atherton]

well - China seems to think there is still a market for LF

check out this puppy:

http://cgi.ebay.com/New-Gaoersi-8X10-Large-format-portable-camera_W0QQitemZ7581684136QQcategoryZ15248QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

there seem to be more of these kind of things (and more "new" trad cameras) coming out every week).

I'm so glad China has come to see the value of the free market... ;-)