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    Cambo WRS 1600 vs X2D II for Landscapes

    Hi AreBee, Thank you for your detailed reply pointing to that surprisingly detailed list of legacy lenses on the Alpa website. As you say, it's unclear whether or not these lenses can actually be remounted, especially given the points made by @Paul Spinnler, who has direct insight into the...
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    Cambo WRS 1600 vs X2D II for Landscapes

    Thank you, Paul for clearing up that aspect. It's good to hear that Alpa does offer a mounting service for existing Rodenstock Digaron lenses. I have edited my last comment accordingly.
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    Cambo WRS 1600 vs X2D II for Landscapes

    My statements are based on what is presented on the Alpa website and on the statements made by @Paul Spinnler in this thread and previously in others. Here's the Alpa page for the new lenses available in aperture mount: https://www.alpa.swiss/product-group/alpa-lens-range On that page, Alpa...
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    Cambo WRS 1600 vs X2D II for Landscapes

    Cambo can mount a SK 43 XL lens you supply onto its WTS Tilt-Swing mount as a standard order item.
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    Cambo WRS 1600 vs X2D II for Landscapes

    Both focus helical units shown in the two links were made by Schneider-Kreuznach (SK), not Alpa / Seitz nor Cambo. The focus helical attached to the Cambo WRS-mounted SK 120 Aspheric is the standard SK helical unit with 6.5mm travel. The focus helical attached to the Alpa-mounted SK 120...
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    Cambo WRS 1600 vs X2D II for Landscapes

    The helicoid units from any one manufacturer are the same physical unit and are marked for whatever focal length is needed. The "Made in Germany" Rodenstock helicoid on that Cambo-mounted 43XL I mentioned is marked up for 43mm. Besides, with decent live view focusing now common, who needs...
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    Cambo WRS 1600 vs X2D II for Landscapes

    The non-availability of SK focus helicoids is not the real limitation on mounting 'legacy' lenses from SK and others. Alpa could easily mount SK lenses using Rodenstock focus helicoids, just as Cambo did with one of my SK lenses - a 43XL - before it started to make its own. The real limitation...
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    Cambo WRS 1600 vs X2D II for Landscapes

    The OP asked: what is the availability for Alpa's vs Cambo on all the lenses and parts? Lens mounts are a crucial part of any technical camera system, on par at least with the availability of the camera body. If I buy a lens and cannot have it mounted for the camera system I own simply...
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    Cambo WRS 1600 vs X2D II for Landscapes

    On the Cambo WRS mount, the lens controls can be repositioned to one's preference by simply unscrewing the three screws securing the focus helicoid to the WRS plate, rotating the helicoid plus lens to another 120° position, and replacing the screws. For example, this enables the open/close...
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    Cambo WRS 1600 vs X2D II for Landscapes

    I ordered an item from Cambo through my local Phase One dealer here in Australia prior to my departure for Europe a month ago and received it in four days.
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    Cambo WRS 1600 vs X2D II for Landscapes

    The Alpa 12 STC, with cut-down single-axis shift functionality, weighs 590g. The Cambo WRS 1600, with full dual X-Y axis functionality weighs 920g. My WRS 1200 with optional Arca-fit foot weighs 816g. I shoot architecture and use BOTH X and Y axis shifts on almost every single capture. Single...
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    Cambo WRS 1600 vs X2D II for Landscapes

    Yes, like all SK lenses based on the Apo-Symmar design, the SK Apo-Digitar 5.6/72mm has almost zero distortion. And almost zero CA (chromatic aberration). My favourite lens for architecture, however, is the SK Apo-Digitar 5.6/60XL. Its 90° field of view produces an image field at f/11 of...
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    Cambo WRS 1600 vs X2D II for Landscapes

    Either of those two lenses you nominated - the Rodenstock Digaron-W 70mm and Digaron-SW 90mm - would make a 'great quality second lens'. The MTF graphs from Rodenstock indicate that the SW 90mm lens is sharper out to a wider image field than the W 70mm lens. If you intend stitching frames to...
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    Cambo WRS 1600 vs X2D II for Landscapes

    Hi isteveb. Your key question is: In your opinion, what are the advantages of the Cambo WRS 1600 over the X2D II for landscape? Your key question is a good one indeed. My answer is: A pancake-style technical camera such as the Cambo WRS 1600 allows you to keep the sensor plane vertical and...
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    Objective APO Digitar Performance Testing - Let's Compare Our Results

    In addition to needing calibration, the observation that the 35XL was 'weaker' on one side suggests that something is amiss with the mounting. For starters, take the Copal 0 off the focus helicoid and examine the heads of the three screws that are sunk into the mounting face of the helicoid...
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    Fun with MF images 2025

    Hi Lorenz. Good spotting ... especially the Australian flag just visible above the windscreen, which I missed. The VW also sports a white South Australia (SA) registration plate, or number plate as we Australians call them. The Hahndorf Kaffehause is in Hahndorf, in the Adelaide Hills region...
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    Technical/View camera query

    Firstly, the prices of used Cambo WRS-mounted lenses are often little more than the prices of the equivalent lenses unmounted. Please read that line again! Secondly, you can - as I have done - buy used Cambo WRS mounts and Do-It-Yourself. In addition to paying Cambo to mount three or four...
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    Technical/View camera query

    I agree that BSI backs - meaning the P1 IQ4-150 and the HB CFV 100C - are the ultimate solution for the SK 35XL. However, photographers were using the 24XL, 35XL and 47XL very successfully with the 39Mpx P1 P45+ from 2007 onwards. And Capture One is better now with LCC corrections than it was...
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    Technical/View camera query

    I own a Cambo Wide RS 1200, which is a slightly revised version of the original WRS 1000. Abbreviated to WRS. RS stands for rear shift (on both X and Y axes). Both models, along with the wood-gripped but otherwise identical WRS 1250, are compact, lightweight and fast to use, and provide...
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    Objective APO Digitar Performance Testing - Let's Compare Our Results

    Currently I'm travelling solo for a month through Germany, Austria and Czechia, making arrangements on the run, so am fully occupied for a while. It seems to me that there are a few additional variables involved in assessing the sharpness or resolution of a lens: - the level of illumination on...
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