Doing some light fleabay'ing lately and I notice that it's surprisingly hard to find a nice late model Caltar lens. With the exception of 210s which everyone and their mother are apparently unloading, there is only one 150/5.6 currently available and it's an older model. Another which is doubles the Rodenstock N model rebrand is in a dang DB shutter. Search for a 360mm and there is one with a dent in the filter ring for over a grand. Meanwhile Robert's Camera is selling a Nikkor 360 for around $700 OBO.
As a former Southern Illinois University student I have a silly affinity for the Caltar brand. Calumet was a fun shop to visit on trips to Chicago. The first 300mm 5.6 I used was on a Deardorff that my school would loan out. The shutter tended to stick unless 'worked out' but the images were sublime.
Now that I've come back to LF after the dust has settled in the film v. digital wars I was hoping to find loads of cheap Caltars. Not so!
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