Is anyone able to show me a sample taken with a Schneider Digitar 28mm lens? Would be appreciated!

Graham,
the Schneider 28/2.8 L Digitar ($1850 USD) is basically the same as the Schneider 28/2.8 PC lens for 35 camera systems.

On Medium format it's not that good from what I've heard.

The Rodenstock 28/4 HR is far superior,hence it's price($4800 USD)

Cheers,

Willem.

http://www.badgergraphic.com/store/cart.ph...t_detail&p=1506

http://www.badgergraphic.com/store/cart.ph...t_detail&p=1972

so it is....

best lenses are i.m.o. the rodenstock / sinar 28 + 35HR in this range.
but the schneider digitars 24+35 are a completely differenet lense calculation also.
especially the distortion on the schneiders 28 digitar ( and also on the 28PC for 35mm ) is not acceptable......

I keep hearing bad reports about the 28mm but I'd still like to see it for myself.

Some time ago I had the same question and got an some images. They are not my pictures, so I can't post them. I also talked to the customer service of Schneider. These are my findings:

- The original construction is a distagon for 35mm SLR.
- There are two versions of the lens:
-- Without floating elements for the usage with small format view-cameras, because here you can't control the floating elements.
-- With floating elements for the usage with SLR-Cameras. The front element is the floating part. It is very delecate and you need special hoods and filters for the lens. Using other filters or hoods will damage the floating mechanism.
- The Schneider person told me that he favors the floating version.
- The floating version is sold by Leica with the Leica bajonett.
- Schneider sells the floating version for all other brands with a specified bajonett.
- There are rumors that Leica gets the "good" ones and the rest goes to the other brands (the Leica version is much more expensive, factor of about x1,8).

Hope that helps.
Best,
Johannes

I tested the Schneider Digitar 28 mm 2 years ago with my Sinarback 54H on the Sinar p3. The Imagecircle is calculated for 24 x 36, and in that dimensions the lens is not bad. On the edges at the 49 mm x 37 mm Sensor the quality of course is bad.

Please download the original file under www.arnoldi-design.com/Test28mmSchneider.cs1.zip and process it with Captureshop 4 or 5 (available under www.sinar.ch)

Christopher, thanks for that sample. Very helpful!

Sorry I can't help with a sample because I deleted it. I can tell you what I found however.

I bought this lens then returned it because I didn't like its 'moustache distortion' which was very exaggerated. No good for architectural subjects.

I shot the lens on a Cambo Ultima 35 with a Canon 1DsII, this allows view camera movements with the Canon and the 28mm digitar.

The lack of regularity with the distortion meant that you couldnt use rise or shift, as it became far too troublesome to reverse the distortion...