[rollei_list] Re: 500/5.6 Tele Tessar for SL66 Comments
- From: "Ellestad" <ellestad@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 15:56:36 -0600
Hi Mike -
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From: "Mike Kovacs" <mskovacs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 6:04 AM
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: 500/5.6 Tele Tessar for SL66 Comments
> Thanks a bunch Tim - that was really helpful, as was the sample photo
> that you sent privately. Do you mind if I put that sample image up in
> the RUG Flickr gallery so interested readers can see it?
We'd better not post it. It is currently in use on an exclusive usership
contract with the firm that I shot it for.
>
> Your mention of tripod goes without saying to me. There are a lot of
> 500/8 Hassy shooters I have read about that say the lens is so-so. This
> made me immediately wonder what kind of support and long lens technique
> they are using. No doubt the new APO lenses are probably better yet
> though. Too bad that the SL66 misses the boat here.
Yes the new APO long lenses are probably slightly better. I know from years
of cine shooting, though, that when the lastest APO long lenses came
available in cine mounts the image improvements weren't nearly as
significant as we expected. Coating improvements were more notable. Is there
an APO 500 that will cover 6x6? (Vignetting is an issue that often gets
little discussion - it is a real image quality killer IMO. The 500 f5.6
doesn't show any significant vignetting even at 5.6.)
>
> One question - the 500/5.6 is focused by the bellows on the camera,
correct?
Yes, focus is still the camera bellows.
>
> PS I have to assume the Hassy 500/8 is the same lens, just constricted
> to f/8 by the leaf shutter?
No, I think that is a different design yielding a more compact lens. The
front element of the Rollei 500 uses every bit of a 96mm filter. Hasselblad
did have an APO f8 later.
You know, I wouldn't be surprised if fewer than 100 of these lenses were
ever made.
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