Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Medium Format / Film / Digital Backs – and Large Sensor Photography => Topic started by: cgarnerhome on December 14, 2017, 06:54:45 pm
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I would like to hear of anyone's experience with the BR Schneider Kreuznach 75-150mm. My use would it primarily for seascapes and landscapes. Most of my photography is seascapes so I tend to use zooms to minimize changing lens. I'm mostly shooting at f8 or f11. I use it on the XF100. I would appreciate any input.
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It's one of my most used lenses and I absolutely love it. Very sharp and a useful focal length range for landscape photography. No issues whatsoever - well, it is heavy :) It is essentially a parfocal zoom too. I do use it with the Hejnar Photo lens stabilization kit for maximum sharpness:
http://www.hejnarphotostore.com/product-p/phase-one-support.htm
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Thanks for your feedback - very helpful!
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the 40-80 is the most used for me, but the 75-150 is also a go to lens. Mine is in Japan right now getting a problem with the focusing mechanism repaired so I've been using my old non LS 75-150. Sure seems as sharp. Might need to do some tests when my other one gets back.
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Thanks Wayne. I also use the 40-80 and have been very happy with it. From past experience, about 75% of my images are in 40-80 focal length range. I was figuring with those 2 zooms I would be pretty well covered.
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Thanks Wayne. I also use the 40-80 and have been very happy with it. From past experience, about 75% of my images are in 40-80 focal length range. I was figuring with those 2 zooms I would be pretty well covered.
At least in my copies of the Blue Ring lenses, my 75-150 is the better lens for sharpness than the 40-80. I'm not saying that the 40-80 is bad, it isn't at all, it's just that my 75-150 is better. My 35 BR is better too, my 28 LS, not so much :)
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I must have a good copy of the 40-80 as I recently compared it to the 35BR and there wasn't much difference.
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I must have a good copy of the 40-80 as I recently compared it to the 35BR and there wasn't much difference.
One of my jobs is lens testing and I have a lot of tools to do that so I tend to be much more critical than the average bear :)
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I am considering purchasing this lens to use with my IQ3100, Is this a good lens for this back, other than the weight any negative aspect to this lens. I am trying to build a two or three lens system. I would appreciate any input.
Thanks,
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I am considering purchasing this lens to use with my IQ3100, Is this a good lens for this back, other than the weight any negative aspect to this lens. I am trying to build a two or three lens system. I would appreciate any input.
Thanks,
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Yes, see the comments above. I use it on an IQ3100