This perplexed me since its release. It is huge at the front (82mm filters) huge at the rear (only just fits thru Linhof boards), weighs about 640g (300g more than a Nikkor 90 SW F8 and 200+g more than a Grandagon f6.8) yet has the same sort of image circle as the old f8 design (216mm) and the Rodenstock, but significantly less than the Nikkor f8 or Schneider 5.6.
Does anyone know what Schneider was thinking, or why this lens was designed this way? Does it have some particularly quality I am missing (aside from silver nose)?
I have also see next to none around, so assume they did not sell at all well. I am sure they are a great performer within their not so large IC, but at what a cost in size and weight!
I must be missing something!
Am I?
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