Schneider/Rodenstock lenses: help for a beginner

[Roger Thoms]

That is unfortunate because it was a good camera. I got mine for $75. Still like it.

Yes good camera, plus despite what Bob stated, mine came with a 6” extension rail. Now I bought mine used quite a few years ago and paid $750. This included standard and bag bellows, nice focus loupe, 2 Lens boards,and the bellows clips and hex rod for using the extra bellow as a lens hood. Still have mine and use it occasionally.

Roger.

[Jac@stafford.net]

Yes good camera, plus despite what Bob stated, mine came with a 6” extension rail. Now I bought mine used quite a few years ago and paid $750. This included standard and bag bellows, nice focus loupe, 2 Lens boards,and the bellows clips and hex rod for using the extra bellow as a lens hood. Still have mine and use it occasionally.

Roger.

You did alright! I forgot, but mine came with a spare main rail which I cut short to better carry it with a 47mm SA XL.

[tintype]

Thanks Leigh, Jac, Willie, Alan, Luis, Peter and Bob,
Everything now cleaned up and almost ready to go on an outing. I'll be reading more on Large Format Photography over the coming weeks and have seen copies of Using the View Camera on eBay at reasonable prices...
Much appreciated for everyones help,
Martin.

[ruilourosa]

There is #2 shutters, i have two of them, one for heliar 180 4.5 and another for angulon 165 6.8, the shutters are compur and from the 50-60´s with speeds up to 1/200, a bit clunky and noisy...

but i really dont know why the size was descontinued...

[Louis Pacilla]

There is #2 shutters, i have two of them, one for heliar 180 4.5 and another for angulon 165 6.8, the shutters are compur and from the 50-60´s with speeds up to 1/200, a bit clunky and noisy...

but i really dont know why the size was descontinued...

No one here said there was no Compur shutter #2 as the conversation was only discussing Copal shutters in which there was NEVER a size 2 Copal shutter made.

[ruilourosa]

sorry boss...

[Jac@stafford.net]

I have never been disappointed by a Rodenstock lens in my fifty years of photography.

[Leigh]

I have never been disappointed by a Rodenstock lens in my fifty years of photography.

Most of my lenses are Rodenstock APO Sironar-S, being all available in 150mm to 300mm focal lengths.
I've been extremely pleased with those.

Shorter and longer than those are a mix of Nikon and Fujinon.

- Leigh