Standard or extended lens board for Schneider 300tele-xenar?

[Memento Mori]

For use on my Speed Graphic 4x5. I need to buy a lens board, and have the option of standard (flat) or about 30mm extension “nose” on it. Thoughts?

[Tin Can]

I use a long Top Hat on 2X3 Linhof Rail

[Memento Mori]

I use a long Top Hat on 2X3 Linhof Rail

Gotcha. I may as well get the Top hat. Might give me marginal swing movement as well as full coverage. (I’m modding the locking plates underneath the front standard)

[Daniel Unkefer]

300mm Tele-Xenar is a focal length I haven't seen often. Good Luck with it

[Mark Sampson]

A 300mm telephoto lens will (by definition) have a bellows draw shorter than 300mm when focused at infinity. So a standard board should work.
A top-hat board would make swing and tilt movements even more complicated- but a Speed has few of those, so would be ok as well. That will let you focus closer too, never a bad idea.

[Memento Mori]

300mm Tele-Xenar is a focal length I haven't seen often. Good Luck with it

Thank you. I’m looking forward to it. Unfortunately, I’ve just started cancer treatment and won’t be back home for a while;(
I’ll post when I have something to post

[Dan Fromm]

If the information in this https://www.largeformatphotography.i.../t-150304.html discussion is correct, the lens' flange-focal distance as 170 mm. It should work perfectly well on a flat board on a 4x5 Speed Graphic

[Memento Mori]

If the information in this https://www.largeformatphotography.i.../t-150304.html discussion is correct, the lens' flange-focal distance as 170 mm. It should work perfectly well on a flat board on a 4x5 Speed Graphic

It does appear so. My uses will be landscape and portrait.

[Jim Andrada]

And best of luck with your treatment. Hospitals are no fun.

[Memento Mori]

And best of luck with your treatment. Hospitals are no fun.

Indeed. Thank you. It’s such an annoyance when there’re LF images to be captured!