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[Miguel Coquis]

Here is a "needle lens". For the price of a needle you can make as much lenses as you like !!!
TMAX 100
f:wo
t: 1 hour, 45 min

[Glenn Thoreson]

I have a conv symmar with the same problem! I wonder if some of the old symmars were soft-coated.

I have a 210/5.6 Symmar that was never coated. I'm going to guess that it's from the mid 30's judging by the Compur rim set shutter, which is as dead on accurate as the lens is perfect. A lovely thing.

[Ole Tjugen]

Glenn,

If your Symmar is that old it should be a Dagor-"clone". They were changed to Plasmat some time after the introduction of coating.

[Jon Wilson]

Here is a scan of a shot taken with a 180mm Goerz at f16 in an old shutter. First attempt at using this lens. I think the lens cost $65, but its personality is priceless

[Glenn Thoreson]

Glenn,

If your Symmar is that old it should be a Dagor-"clone". They were changed to Plasmat some time after the introduction of coating.

Well, now, that's interesting. I'm guessing at a date by the shutter, which has a top speed of 200, if I remember. Another one I need to look at. It's a good, sharp old sucker, though.

[Ole Tjugen]

There's never any need to guess at the age of a Schneider lens: http://www.schneideroptics.com/info/...nses/index.htm

(Except Schneider Göttingen lenses, but I believe they were only marked with that during WWII - so there's no need to guess either way.)

[Dan Fromm]

Ole, I've handled a coated Schneider Göttingen 125/2 Xenon with s/n, IIRC, 621xxx. Göttingen's anomalous serial numbers ran for at least a couple of years after the war.

[Ole Tjugen]

Ole, I've handled a coated Schneider Göttingen 125/2 Xenon with s/n, IIRC, 621xxx. Göttingen's anomalous serial numbers ran for at least a couple of years after the war.

Schneider Göttingen's serial numbers are continuous with ISCO, which is the same company.

[Glenn Thoreson]

Now I know how old mine is. I dug out my old Symmar to check the serial number. Low 1,000,000 = 1936. I thought I remembered it as 210/5.6, but it's 21cm/6.8. I was correct in estimating the date, anyhoo. I find it interesting that there doesn't seem to be a serial number on the front group, only on the rear. The shutter, which I'm fairly certain is original to the lens, only has one aperture scale. Thanks for putting up the link, Ole.

[eddie]

here is a shot using a 10 3/4 (i think it is 3/4) in wolly raptar f10. hat shutter.
i got this lens for free. mounted it to my 4x5 korona and shot this wide open at f10