Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 11:02:48 +0300 From: "Boris Liberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi!
A friend of mine enabled himself with 4x5 camera with Schneider Kreuznach Symmar 1:5,6 / 210 lens. This camera/lens has Synchro Compur #1 shutter. Unfortunately the shutter needs repair. Ideally I would like to get technical/repair manual or at least a sketch of the shutter using which he would be able to repair it. Also on the lens there is green text which goes like this: "1:12/370". Any clue as to its meaning?!
Any help would be greately appreciated by me and by him as well.
Thanks.
Boris
The lens is a Symmar Convertible. If you remove the front element it becomes a 370/12. They used a useful but not optically perfect design that allows for 2 focal lengths in one. For color I found some aberrations on the edges of subjects but it's fine for b&w. A way to get a longer length in a pinch. It's a fine lens in standard mode. Single coated. Good color correction. Reasonably sharp on the edges. Made in the 50s & 60s, but optically not much different from the later Symmar-S units, except that they were multi-coated. Shutter repair here is about $60 to $75. Replacing a #1 is about $150 or so. (Let me know if he wants to part with it!)
Collin
