Ken Munn
9-Feb-2000, 08:42
This is an area of photogrpahy where my knowledge is limited - so please help if you can.
I recently bought a 6x9 (cm) monorail camera. It came with a 65mm Angulon, a 135 SK Xenar, and a 105 Zeiss Planar. The Xenar & Planar are in Compur shutters. Of these three lenses, the Zeiss is in the worst condition, and because it is only 30mm different from the Schneider, my thinking is to replace it with a third, l onger lens.
The main purpose for a longer lens would be portraiture. On 35mm I like to shoot portraits at the 135-150mm range, so according to my shaky maths the 6x9 equiva lent would be approx 330mm.
My questions are: firstly, what older but repectable performers are there around at that sort of focal length, and would such be a sensible addition to a 6x9 ou tfit? Secondly, am I likely to run into any problems with length of bellows draw ? Thirdly, if such a lens were used in a non-portrait application, would it thro w an image circle big enough to allow some use of movements?
TIA for any help.
Ken (UK)
I recently bought a 6x9 (cm) monorail camera. It came with a 65mm Angulon, a 135 SK Xenar, and a 105 Zeiss Planar. The Xenar & Planar are in Compur shutters. Of these three lenses, the Zeiss is in the worst condition, and because it is only 30mm different from the Schneider, my thinking is to replace it with a third, l onger lens.
The main purpose for a longer lens would be portraiture. On 35mm I like to shoot portraits at the 135-150mm range, so according to my shaky maths the 6x9 equiva lent would be approx 330mm.
My questions are: firstly, what older but repectable performers are there around at that sort of focal length, and would such be a sensible addition to a 6x9 ou tfit? Secondly, am I likely to run into any problems with length of bellows draw ? Thirdly, if such a lens were used in a non-portrait application, would it thro w an image circle big enough to allow some use of movements?
TIA for any help.
Ken (UK)