J. P. Mose
24-Sep-2001, 18:48
Greetings,
The subject lens is a rare one! I purchased one a few years ago but it is in po or shape and inoperatable. The price was right and I knew it was hard to find. Some popular camera stores...in business for years...claim to have never seen o ne. The Rodenstock 135mm Optar with 1000 shutter is fairly common but the 270mm is somewhat of a mystery, even to Graflex collectors such as myself. I posted a question or two on the Graflex website a couple of years ago but didn't get a r esponse. So I thought I'd try again with a larger forum:
Does anyone out there have any experience with this particular lens? If so, how does it compare to similar large format telephoto lenses?
What years and how many were actually produced?
Unfortunately, a lot of Graflex records were not kept after they shut their door s in 1973...perhaps HP Marketing can obtain this information since the lens was manufactured by Rodenstock?
Any information would be most interesting to me. Thank you for your help!
J. P. Mose
The subject lens is a rare one! I purchased one a few years ago but it is in po or shape and inoperatable. The price was right and I knew it was hard to find. Some popular camera stores...in business for years...claim to have never seen o ne. The Rodenstock 135mm Optar with 1000 shutter is fairly common but the 270mm is somewhat of a mystery, even to Graflex collectors such as myself. I posted a question or two on the Graflex website a couple of years ago but didn't get a r esponse. So I thought I'd try again with a larger forum:
Does anyone out there have any experience with this particular lens? If so, how does it compare to similar large format telephoto lenses?
What years and how many were actually produced?
Unfortunately, a lot of Graflex records were not kept after they shut their door s in 1973...perhaps HP Marketing can obtain this information since the lens was manufactured by Rodenstock?
Any information would be most interesting to me. Thank you for your help!
J. P. Mose