The Xenar is considered by many to be on the lower rungs of the Rollei lens ladder. And the age of the lens indicates that the coating may have been substantially inferior to later coatings.
It would be interesting to compare lenses of similar quality, like the Xenotar and the Planar, with the equivalent Pentax focal lengths. Paul Stenquist wrote: > > TLRs are a bit of a pain in the butt to begin with, due to the framing > of the focusing lens not being the same as the framing of the taking > lens. By shooting 35mm film in a TLR, you eliminate the one advantage > that type of camera offers, a large negative, yet have to deal with its >disadvantages. > I have a 75mm Rollei Schneider Xenar 3.5 that dates from the fifties > or earlier. I haven't used it since the seventies, because the focusing > screen is broken, but it was just an average lens. Decently sharp but > nothing exceptional, and the contrast was iffy in some situations. The > Pentax medium format lenses seem to be far superior. -- Shel Belinkoff mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/ http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/darkroom-rentals/index.html - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
