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Schneider Xenon 35mm F2
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 7:34 pm    Post subject: Schneider Xenon 35mm F2 Reply with quote

I picked up this lens on a panel in a box with some large format stuff, but can't find out much about it. Anyone any idea what it was for? It just about covers 35mm. Some kind of macro perhaps? It has the look of an enlarger lens... but f2?
It works nicely on MFT.




dates from 1976 and looks like this...



PostPosted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 8:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow the rendering is very nice.

Looks like enlarger lens to me. Does it have a focusing helicoid?

PS: Aparently not but look here:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320728835688&fromMakeTrack=true&ssPageName=VIP:watchlink:top:en

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hawkpeng2003/sets/72157624736175687/


PostPosted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 10:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Someone evidently likes this lens enough to go to some effort, as you say it renders well - seems a little expensive though! But the purpose of the lens remains a mystery to me, it's too fast for an enlarger lens.

Edit: looks like c mount so may be some sort of TV lens?


PostPosted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 1:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Does it cover 35mm at infinity ?

I doubt it does.

I think its designed for some smaller format, but without a focusing helical
that leaves it an oddity.


PostPosted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 1:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The barrel design is identical to the Schneider enlarger lenses of that vintage, I have both Componon and Componar lenses that look identical.

However, the 50mm Schneider ELs are f4 so as Luis says, an oddity.

I wonder if it's a CCTV camera lens?


PostPosted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 8:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It does in fact cover 35mm at infinity, but only just. I put it on the back of a lens panel on a 54 to check - the register meant I had to use the MFT to try it though. Maybe I'll try it on a 35mm rangefinder next.
Could be CCTV, but I thought they were generally of quite low quality. This seems fairly good.
I could try it on the enlarger...


PostPosted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 1:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, Zeiss Jena made the Tevidon for CCTV and Schneider in the West made an equivalent, this may be that equivalent? During the Cold War they needed high quality surveillance video.


PostPosted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 10:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

May I see the blades of Iris Aperture?


PostPosted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 12:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

f1.2 wrote:
May I see the blades of Iris Aperture?

I have it on my desk, so here it is for you Wink
The lens is inside a M42 (ex)-teleconverter as a tube
#1

Here with a Pany G1
#2

Here with a Nex
#3

Almost impossible to use wide open...But yet interesting.


PostPosted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 2:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i think this is some kind of machine machine vision or line scan lens. Designed for very flat field and high resolution applications.



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PostPosted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 12:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Schneider CCTV lenses are looking quite different and they all have a focusing helicoid as far as I know!

For me it looks like it's an enlarger lens for half frame.