Its been a wonderful day. Met a friend over lunch. We yacked about photography. He showed me a lens I just had to buy from him. Its labeled Docter-Wetzlar-Germany Germinar 9/150W.
Reportedly multi-coated and a Schneider GClaron equivalent, this is a very tiny lens. Mine is mounted in a nice lightweight Seiko #0 shutter. It looks to be everything the GClaron could have been, had Schneider added multi-coatings to that product line.
Others have mentioned this lens (see: http://largeformatphotography.info/lfforum/topic/500228.html ) or something similar (see: http://www.largeformatphotography.info/docter-optik.html ). My lens is not marked "APO". So I am suspicious that its a six element air space design. I think my friend is right that its more a 6 element 4 group symmetrical plasmat.
I still can't get over just how small and light it is. I'll test it and see how it performs. Might be a nice addition to my 4x5 kit. :-)
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