Schneider: new lenses for the new year 2015

[AtlantaTerry]

English: http://www.schneiderkreuznach.com/en/photo-imaging/product-field/photo-lenses/

German: http://www.schneiderkreuznach.com/photo-imaging/produktbereiche/fotoobjektive/

[vinny]

I don't see any LF lenses there. What new LF lenses are you attempting to link to?

[Louis Pacilla]

I don't see any LF lenses there. What new LF lenses are you attempting to link to?

I think Terrys point is that Schneider is offering analog lenses at ALL. It was posted not long ago that Rodenstock or Schneider would/will be producing ANY analog lenses yet the Schneider catalog does not agree w/ this news.

[Oren Grad]

Those lenses have been discontinued. They just haven't updated the website yet.

If you drill down to the pages for individual lenses on the US Schneider Optics site, you will see a haphazard pattern with some of the focal lengths missing entirely, most of the rest marked "discontinued", and a few marked "call" or "in stock", reflecting dwindling remaining stock.

[Drew Wiley]

No sense pulling the plug until their own inventory is depleted.

[Old-N-Feeble]

Interesting.... I've read that Schneider nearly completely quit LF lenses. I do see that the 38mm and 47mm SAXL aren't listed nor any focal length longer than 300mm.

This is odd... their other website shows a different offering of lenses. Perhaps the additional offerings HERE (http://www.schneideroptics.com/) are old stock not to be made in 2015??

[Bob Salomon]

Those lenses have been discontinued. They just haven't updated the website yet.

If you drill down to the pages for individual lenses on the US Schneider Optics site, you will see a haphazard pattern with some of the focal lengths missing entirely, most of the rest marked "discontinued", and a few marked "call" or "in stock", reflecting dwindling remaining stock.

There are several pipe lines that lenses are sold through:

The manufacturer. To camera makers, distributors, local dealers, ec.
Each of those pipe lines can still have product even though the manufacturer no longer does.
So once a lens is discontinued by a manufacturer they may still be in stock at:

Camera Manufacturers
Distributors
Retailers

So you may easily find an announcement that a lens is out of production and out of stock from one of the above and it is still available and in stock from any of the other sources. They don't all go away at the same time world wide.

[8x10 user]

Schneider is doing well with their tilt shift offerings for DSLR and MFD.

[Oren Grad]

Folks, we've been through this already:

http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?114953-Schneider-s-analogue-lens-production

For those who don't have the patience to read the other thread, I'll copy here from the post that started it:

Hi Chris,
I'm afraid Schneider Kreuznach discontinued production of all large format analogue lenses this year.
Inventory is now limited to quantities on hand. Re: the 210mm SS XL, there are no more
Sorry for no better news
Sincerely
Paul

Paul Cousins

Schneider Optics
285 Oser Ave.
Hauppauge, NY 11788

[koh303]

The amazing part is that a brand new 210mm XL is available on special order, but that the price of used lenses is about 10-15% less the new. Considering the fact a 90mm 5.6 is worth about 10% of its original cost this is amazing.

[paulr]

I'm glad I chose not to sell my lenses. They're worth half or less what I paid for them, but it would be just my luck that the price would go through the roof from scarcity right before I decide to do LF again.