Thanx a lot for this very useful test.
You are showing once again, that eachone of us must have still a lot of treasures in our stock, we just neeed to do the work to find out the combinations. Whitout buying any lenses! We just have to find out how to get the juice out of them!

Did some testing of closing iris. There is a huge improvement by stopping down the front lens from 2.8 to 5.6. Beyond IQ decreases. http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/2798_28_stackedlens_digaron_ELnikkor2220_1.jpg @ 2.8 http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/2798_56_stackedlens_dig...

Hah! I just Googled it. So you are using a $7500 (new) large format lens as a TUBE LENS for a $50 (used) enlarger lens? After buying this tube lens, there was only 50$ left , so I bought the EL-nikkor! ;-)) It is actually a funny combination. As I wrote, used the Rodenstock for High-end watch photo...

ray_parkhurst wrote: Is that a Schneider, or Rodenstock, or ??

It's Rodenstock.

Surprisingly good given the reputation this lens has, Wich lens has bad reputation? The HR Digaron seem to me the best (non-macro) lens I ever shot with. I did a lot of high-end watch photography (mag ca. 0.7) with a 8000x6000px digiback. This lens was the only one wich gave the high quality watchm...

Hi, Just did a quick testing: Camera: FF Canon 5D mk4 Tubelens: Rodenstock HR Digaron-S 180mm 5.6 Frontlens: EL-nikkor 50mm 4.0 reversed >>edit:sorry, it's 2.8, I shot wide open magnification:3.6X Stack of 25 (wasn't plane) Alignement of sensor and TL is not very accurate, Alignement of TL and Nikko...

And how do you manage to immobilize them?

I just realized it is a Rodenstock Apo-Macro-Sironar Digital 120mm 5.6, and not a Apo-Digitar. I never ever used it for real macro as it is integrated in a view-camera and doing MF 22Mpx Macro is odd. It performs fine for stilllife with my old Sinarback. Rodenstock says 0.5X-2X.. So I will really ha...

After your announcement, that the pictures are to sharp to be sharpend, it is kind of cruel to not give us more information!!!

What camera would you be using it on Antal, and what mag model where you thinking about? Thanx for this reply, Robert. I would use it on FF (5D mark4). I shoot a lot of 1x - 3x and was thinking about buying the very same model as you had, as there are cheep copies for sale. The 3,5x model is much r...

Their other product seem to be much more interesting. I don't use such lens, but a 23mm with 79 fucus distance and 70mm image circle is not very common to my eyes. And their view camera has some good points and good ideas (ok, I had them too, some years ago..). The no-go is tilting without micrometr...

Data from Qoptix: • Focal length: 105 mm • Aperture: 5.6 … 11 • Working distance: 100-420 mm • Spectral range: 400-750 nm • Distortion: < 0.4% • Camera mount: V-groove • Compatible with all inspec.x L Series accessories • Large image circle up to 82 mm • Perfect match with 5 ?m pixel size • Full-met...

Hello all,
Are there people who have tested the Linos Inspec.x L 5.6/105? Data looks quite promising if you believe the quotes from Qoptix (who builded Roberts mythic mag.X)

Munich wrote:After the lens-greed inducing teaser ("unable to output sharpen") on your homepage:

everything related to the Schneider APO-Xenoplan 35mm f1.8

Many thanks for your efforts!

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Hi, Not really a macro specific topic, but there may be some experts out there: I got this Schneider Electronic Shutter System. I got one lens for wich Schneider custom service has set the aperture to the specific lens: Rodenstock HR Digaron-S. As it is my most important (and most expensive) lens, t...